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Leading off the sixth inning, Ohtani pounced on a cutter that drifted toward the heart of the plate.<\/p>\n
He launched it to straightaway center field, where it bounced on the netting beyond the fence.<\/p>\n
Rasmussen lasted through the seventh inning, leaving that home run as the only blemish on his outing. Then the two bullpens duked it out to a draw in the late innings.<\/p>\n
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Justin Wrobleski pitched six scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Ohtani\u2019s home run stood alone. <\/p>\n
It was his fifth home run in nine games, bringing his season total to 14. <\/p>\n
After a slow start, by his standards, Ohtani lamented his lack of power. Now, with the second-highest on-base-plus-slugging percentage in the National League (.966), just barely trailing the Washington Nationals\u2019 James Wood (.967), Ohtani has that going for him too.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was hitting the ball hard, some doubles, singles,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cAnd if he was just missing a little bit [before], there was going to be slug. So that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Seeing the baseball well. Swinging at good pitches. And when he uses the big part of the field, there\u2019s just no one better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The home run Tuesday, however, was not enough to claim a spot in the batting order Wednesday. Not in an extra-early 12:10 p.m. game. Not just days removed from a bout of inflammation in his left knee. <\/p>\n
Before the game, Ohtani threw off a mound to test his knee before his scheduled pitching start the next day. It went well enough that he\u2019ll be taking the mound, Roberts confirmed Tuesday night. But he will not be hitting.<\/p>\n
Roberts will keep a close eye on Ohtani, who left the game last Thursday with a swollen knee and then sat out Friday. Ohtani theorized over the weekend that issues with his pitching mechanics may have aggravated his knee.<\/p>\n
Said Roberts: \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t start if we felt that we were going to put him in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glasnow hopes to begin throwing soon<\/p>\n
In retrospect, it\u2019s clear to right-hander Tyler Glasnow that he tried to start throwing a little too quickly after back spasms pulled him out of his start against the Houston Astros on May 6. But at the time of the injury, Glasnow, who is no stranger to back problems, was encouraged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t feel as bad when I first did it,\u201d Glasnow told The Times on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Nearly a month and a half later, Glasnow has twice tried to restart throwing, and twice he\u2019s had to shut it down.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrustrating, for sure,\u201d Glasnow said. \u201cJust because it happens so frequently. A lot of times I just want to find a way to address the underlying issues of why it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has yet to find that long-term solution, but he does not expect to have surgery.<\/p>\n
Glasnow, encouraged by his recent improvement, expects to start throwing again \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just waiting for it to be fully, fully healed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Edman activated<\/p>\n
As expected, the Dodgers activated Tommy Edman (right ankle surgery) off the injured list Tuesday and designated utility man Santiago Espinal for assignment.<\/p>\n
Edman didn\u2019t make his season debut, but Roberts said he\u2019ll play a mixture of second base, third and left field, with his playing time dictated by factors such as pitcher matchups and the availability of left fielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s (strained left hamstring), who\u2019s still on the IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whenever Shohei Ohtani is questioned, it seems, he does something spectacular. On Tuesday, with discussion still swirling over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[426,108543,1073,4468,147786,11443,48,52,51,47,50,49,10195,147787,116191,424,20346,422,315,68,430],"class_list":["post-363899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dodgers","tag-glasnow","tag-home","tag-inning","tag-knee-issue","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-plate","tag-rasmussen","tag-rays","tag-roberts","tag-second-base","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-time","tag-tuesday","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363899","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=363899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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