CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is day to day with left knee inflammation.<\/p>\n
Ohtani was sidelined for Friday night’s 8-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox. But manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani could play this weekend and remains in line to make his next scheduled start on the mound on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Ohtani was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning of Thursday night\u2019s 8-6 win at Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s doing fine today,\u201d Roberts said before the series opener against the White Sox. \u201cI think that we got some pictures. There was no findings. It\u2019s just the normal wear and tear. I thought initially it was a hamstring, it was the knee. So it just kind of got upset, swelled up a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ohtani, 31, is batting .305 with 13 homers and 40 RBIs in 67 games for the NL West leaders. On the mound, the reigning NL MVP is 6-2 with a 1.06 ERA in 11 starts.<\/p>\n
Ohtani had surgery on his left knee in September 2019. Roberts said the swelling is in the back of the knee.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where a lot of the swelling with the knee kind of like builds,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut again his range of motion today is good and so if it was another time in the season he\u2019d be in there tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ohtani did not speak with the media before the game.<\/p>\n
Alex Call was in the leadoff spot for Los Angeles and Santiago Espinal stepped in as the designated hitter. Espinal contributed an early two-run single, but the Dodgers finished with just four hits \u2014 all in the first three innings.<\/p>\n
Roberts also said utilityman Tommy Edman is on track to be activated from the 60-day injured list on Tuesday. Edman, who is coming back from offseason ankle surgery, is on a minor league rehab assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
Right-hander Tyler Glasnow, who is on the 60-day IL because of a back issue, could start playing catch soon.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Glasnow) feels great, so he\u2019s going to start kind of ramping things up,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is day to day with left knee inflammation. Ohtani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[909,5,138,49,2561,1560,35037,4,9500,9501,9496,82611,9497,39138,15187,1552,468,880,786,396,2562],"class_list":["post-724783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-alex-call","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-dave-roberts","tag-dodgers-shohei-ohtani","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-31999-ap-online-baseball-news","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-santiago-espinal","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-tommy-edman","tag-tyler-glasnow","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}