{"id":289951,"date":"2026-04-28T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289951\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:06:08","slug":"shohei-ohtani-will-pitch-but-not-hit-against-marlins-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289951\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani will pitch, but not hit against Marlins \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani\u00a0will be held out of the lineup Tuesday night when he starts on the mound for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> against the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be the second time this season Ohtani pitches but does not hit. He&#8217;ll be throwing on five days&#8217; rest.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced the plan for Ohtani after\u00a0a 5-4 win in the series opener\u00a0Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The first time Ohtani pitched for the Dodgers but didn&#8217;t hit was April 15, when he struck out 10 in an 8-2 victory over the New York Mets. He was held out of the batting order after being struck in the back of his right shoulder by a pitch earlier that week.<\/p>\n<p>The previous time Ohtani was not in the lineup as the designated hitter during a start on the mound was May 28, 2021, with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers will miss his bat Tuesday. He has a 10-game hitting streak against the Marlins dating to September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ohtani had his second consecutive three-hit game, finishing 3 for 5 with a ground-rule double, two singles, two runs and an RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani\u00a0will be held out of the lineup Tuesday night when he starts on the mound for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[426,48,52,51,47,53,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-289951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dodgers","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289951","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=289951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}