Shohei Ohtani will be available for this weekend’s series in New York after sitting out the All Star Game due to irritation in his left knee.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that the four-time MVP had fluid drained from the knee following Sunday’s game to relieve irritation. The two-way star did not receive an injection, Roberts said.
“He’s going to be in the lineup,” Roberts, the National League’s All Star Game manager, said before Tuesday night’s game in Philadelphia.
The Dodgers open the second half of the MLB season Friday for the start of a three-game series against the Yankees.
Ohtani, who was selected to his sixth All Star Game, is batting .293 with 22 homers and 58 RBIs while going 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 85 2/3 innings over 14 starts. Ohtani missed a scheduled start on the mound due to the knee irritation.
Ohtani last pitched on July 3. It isn’t yet clear whether he will pitch against the Yankees.
“We haven’t decided that yet,” Roberts said.
He was selected as the National League starting DH for Tuesday’s All Star Game.