had been expected to pitch Wednesday in Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0against the Phillies.<\/p>\nOhtani, however, still didn’t feel 100% while playing catch this weekend, so he and the Dodgers decided not to even test the knee with a bullpen session.<\/p>\n
The four-time MVP hasn’t pitched since July 3, and it’s unclear when he might return to the mound.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say that it\u2019s going to be some time,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Sunday before his team’s doubleheader against the New York Yankees. \u201cIt’s not going to be a day-to-day thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberts reiterated that Ohtani feels no pain in the knee when hitting. The slugger was in the starting lineup for Sunday’s opener, batting leadoff as the designated hitter, and Roberts said he’d wait to see about playing Ohtani in the nightcap, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want to continue to give it the best chance to kind of get in a good spot,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cAs he said, as we feel, it\u2019s the pitching and the torque on landing on that leg. That kind of gets it upset. So I think that hitting doesn\u2019t do that. So I think that for us, we\u2019re trying to give it as much time as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani won’t make his next scheduled start on the mound because of left knee irritation and isn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[426,48,52,51,47,53,50,49,422],"class_list":["post-404551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404551","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=404551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}