Shohei Ohtani’s status for World Series Game 3 is revealed as Dodgers give major update on injured shoulder
Los Angeles Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani will play in Game 3 of the World Series after hurting his shoulder in Saturday’s win over the New York Yankees.
Manager Dave Roberts confirmed the good news for the Dodgers on Sunday, telling reporters that Ohtani is “in a great spot and will play in Game 3 tomorrow.”
Ohtani partially dislocated his shoulder when he was thrown out trying to steal second base in the seventh inning of Saturday’s win.
He clutched his left forearm after being tagged by shortstop Anthony Volpe for the final out of the inning on a feet-first slide. He lay with the bag for a few minutes before being attended to by trainers and leaving the field.
After LA improved its series lead to 2-0, a social media account with English-language coverage of Japanese baseball revealed the Dodgers star’s exchange with translators and trainers.
Los Angeles Dodgers sensation Shohei Ohtani will play in Game 3 despite his injury
Ohtani Ohtani is helped off the field after being injured in the seventh inning of Game 2
Shoulder, Ohtani said as he lay on the infield, as quoted on the Yakyu Cosmopolitan X account.
‘Real?’ the translator asked. “Which one?”
βLeft,β Ohtani said.
When asked if his arm came out of his shoulder socket, Ohtani replied: “I think so.”
The Japanese slugger β and presumptive National League MVP β was 0 for 3 with a walk in the game. He is 1 for 8 in the first two games of the Fall Classic and is hitting .260 with three home runs and 10 RBIs in his first postseason in the majors.
‘That was tough. You never like to see the best player in the game get injured like that,β Yankees superstar Aaron Judge said. ‘If you try to steal a base like that, something like that happens. But hopefully it’s all good news. We’ll see what happens.’
Ohtani was one of the few players on the Dodgers roster to get through the season without a major injury. The pitching staff has been ravaged by injuries, with nearly every member of the starting rotation spending time on the injured list.
Among position players, Mookie Betts was out nearly two months due to a broken left hand, and Max Muncy was out nearly half the season due to a right oblique strain. Freddie Freeman is playing in the postseason with a severely sprained right ankle.