{"id":233185,"date":"2026-03-23T22:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:31:14","slug":"baseball-ohtani-to-start-vs-guardians-in-dodgers-5th-game-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233185\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Ohtani to start vs. Guardians in Dodgers’ 5th game of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani hits a three-run double during the third inning of a spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, on March 22, 2026. (Kyodo) <\/p>\n


\n ANAHEIM, California (Kyodo) — Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani will be the starting pitcher in their fifth game of the upcoming season on March 31 against the Cleveland Guardians, manager Dave Roberts said Sunday. \n<\/p>\n


\n The 31-year-old Ohtani, preparing for his first full season on the mound since undergoing elbow surgery in September 2023, is expected to pitch in a spring training game on Tuesday. \n<\/p>\n


\n Fellow Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki will start the Dodgers’ fourth game of the year next Monday against Cleveland, Roberts said. \n<\/p>\n


\n In the Dodgers’ pitching rotation, right-handed ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been named the Opening Day starter for the second straight year, taking the mound in a home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani hits a three-run double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2135,6763,23015,127,23016],"class_list":["post-233185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-baseball","tag-japan","tag-latest-articles","tag-sports","tag-the-mainichi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}