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Dodgers<\/a> superstar Shohei Ohtani<\/a> was away from the team Friday for the birth of his second child.<\/p>\n

He was out of the lineup for the series opener against the Orioles, but the Dodgers did not opt to put him on the paternity list, temporarily playing down a player instead. The team said it expects Ohtani back at some point this weekend.<\/p>\n

Ohtani pitched Wednesday<\/a>, so he should be back with the team well before his next turn in the rotation.<\/p>\n

With Ohtani out, rookie Ryan Ward served as the designated hitter Friday, batting seventh. And right fielder Kyle Tucker<\/a> moved up to the leadoff spot that Ohtani usually occupies.<\/p>\n

Entering Friday, Ohtani owned the second-highest OPS (.962) in the National League, among qualified hitters. And his 1.47 ERA ranked No. 2 among pitchers who have thrown at least 50 innings, despite giving up seven combined earned runs in his past two starts.<\/p>\n

Ohtani has been pitching through a blister on the middle finger of his right hand. And last week he missed a game to address a bout of inflammation in his left knee, which he thinks may have stemmed from mechanical problems in his pitching delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani was away from the team Friday for the birth of his second child. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,91090,90460,39,2600,91092,1165,446,3223,5954,1994,774,56,1593,3224,3222,4,3354,1258,1625,91089,468,91091,3846],"class_list":["post-730490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-birth","tag-bout","tag-dodgers","tag-era","tag-hitter-friday","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-last-week","tag-lineup","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mlb","tag-no","tag-ohtani","tag-point","tag-second-child","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-team-friday","tag-weekend"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116779769110289372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730490","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=730490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}