{"id":70432,"date":"2025-08-09T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70432\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:49:06","slug":"dodgers-roki-sasaki-shows-progress-in-simulated-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70432\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Roki Sasaki shows progress in simulated game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5134638\/roki-sasaki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roki Sasaki<\/a> threw a three-inning simulated game Friday, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers<\/a> rookie is on track to return late in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese phenom has been on the injured list since mid-May because of a right shoulder impingement.<\/p>\n<p>Sasaki tossed 46 pitches, with his velocity touching 97 mph at times, against outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38994\/alex-call\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Call<\/a> and a few minor leaguers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He accomplished what he needed to,&#8221; Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts noticed Sasaki has added some weight through working with the team&#8217;s strength and conditioning coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s more physical,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;The throw wasn&#8217;t as shoulder-y. It was a little bit more clean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he wasn&#8217;t sure if Sasaki&#8217;s next move would be a rehab assignment or another sim game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was still kind of searching, as far as asking the pitching coaches some things, and that&#8217;s kind of what people do,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;Waiting for him to get to a point where he feels really comfortable and confident in his delivery and where he&#8217;s at, so he can attack the hitters, be his focus. We&#8217;re not there yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sasaki arrived in the majors as one of the most touted pitchers in recent years, but he struggled in his first eight starts before getting hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8212; Roki Sasaki threw a three-inning simulated game Friday, and the Dodgers rookie is on track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-70432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}