{"id":763437,"date":"2026-07-15T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763437\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:23:12","slug":"shohei-ohtani-will-be-available-for-dodgers-weekend-series-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763437\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani will be available for Dodgers\u2019 weekend series \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/shohei-ohtani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will be available for this weekend&#8217;s series in New York after sitting out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/shohei-ohtani-arizona-all-star-game\/3915769\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Star Game<\/a> due to irritation in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that the four-time MVP had fluid drained from the knee following Sunday&#8217;s game to relieve irritation. The two-way star did not receive an injection, Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to be in the lineup,&#8221; Roberts, the National League&#8217;s All Star Game manager, said before Tuesday night&#8217;s game in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers open the second half of the MLB season Friday for the start of a three-game series against the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani, who was selected to his sixth All Star Game, is batting .293 with 22 homers and 58 RBIs while going 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 85 2\/3 innings over 14 starts. Ohtani missed a scheduled start on the mound due to the knee irritation.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani last pitched on July 3. It isn&#8217;t yet clear whether he will pitch against the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t decided that yet,&#8221; Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>He was selected as the National League starting DH for Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/mlb\/all-star-game-2026-lineups-rosters-date-time-channel-stream\/3916694\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Star Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani will be available for this weekend&#8217;s series in New York after sitting out the All Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4279,2323,363,99],"class_list":["post-763437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763437","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=763437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}