{"id":358727,"date":"2026-06-13T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358727\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:56:10","slug":"shohei-ohtani-not-in-dodgers-lineup-day-after-knee-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358727\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani not in Dodgers lineup day after knee inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers<\/a> superstar Shohei Ohtani<\/a> was out of the lineup Friday against the Chicago White Sox a day after exiting the game with discomfort in the back of his left knee.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing him today, he feels fine-ish,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts<\/a> said. \u201cBut just giving him an extra day is the smart thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani underwent imaging on his left knee, according to Roberts, and it didn\u2019t show anything beyond \u201cnormal wear and tear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts expressed optimism that Ohtani would return to the lineup this weekend, and he still is penciled in to take the mound Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays at Dodger Stadium before the team\u2019s day off Thursday.<\/p>\n

Roberts initially was hopeful, after Ohtani left the Dodgers\u2019 8-6 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> at PNC Park in the seventh inning, that he would not miss additional time. But at this point in the season, the Dodgers are incentivized to play it safe with Ohtani\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was another time of the season, he\u2019d be in there,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The back of Ohtani\u2019s knee, where the swelling is concentrated, still is sore, Roberts said. The origin of that swelling is not entirely clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no incident,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know. He doesn\u2019t know. I asked him if it was during the pitching, was it when he was hitting, when he was trying to steal a base. And there was no one incident. So I don\u2019t know. I think that\u2019s maybe a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s injury history includes surgery on his left knee in 2019. He was born with a rare congenital knee condition called bipartite patella, in which the kneecap doesn\u2019t fuse together. It\u2019s often asymptomatic, but in 2019, Ohtani felt the effects, especially as he started ramping up his post-Tommy John surgery throwing program. He kept playing through it until September.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether there\u2019s any connection between that issue and the inflammation. Ohtani was not available before the game Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just more the natural evolution of limbs and body parts,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThe running, the swinging, the landing when you\u2019re pitching. So that\u2019s just what happens to your body. So I think that something probably just pissed it off a little bit. But now we can kind of manage the symptoms and feel good about it going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tommy Edman nearing return<\/p>\n

Dodgers utility player Tommy Edman (right ankle surgery) is nearing the end of his minor-league rehab assignment. If all goes well in the coming days, Roberts expects him to return to the team next week against the Rays. Edman entered Friday with a .670 OPS in 11 games with triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani was out of the lineup Friday against the Chicago White Sox a day after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4667,4419,426,423,349,146005,48,52,51,54956,146004,47,50,49,63,105027,10250,146003,30369,129129,422],"class_list":["post-358727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-back","tag-chicago","tag-dodgers","tag-game","tag-injury","tag-knee-inflammation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-left-knee","tag-lineup-day","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-manager-dave-roberts","tag-ohtani","tag-optimism-thursday-night","tag-pirates","tag-pnc-park","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358727","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=358727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}