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07/25 18:56 CDT Shohei Ohtani skips bullpen session and won't throw off mound
until irritated left knee feels 100%
Shohei Ohtani skips bullpen session and won't throw off mound until irritated
left knee feels 100%
By LARRY FLEISHER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) --- Shohei Ohtani skipped a tentatively scheduled bullpen session
Saturday and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the two-way
superstar won't throw off a mound again until his irritated left knee feels
100%.
"We're just going to kick the can," Roberts said before his team played the New
York Mets. "I think like I said yesterday, we're not going to move forward
until he feels 100% confident (and) we feel 100% confident that we should do
it."
Ohtani hasn't pitched in a game since July 3. But the Dodgers say his knee
doesn't bother him while batting, and the four-time MVP has remained in the
starting lineup regularly.
The two-time defending World Series champions began the day with the best
record in the majors at 66-38 and an 11-game lead in the NL West over Arizona.
Ohtani received a lubricant injection just before the All-Star break and
Roberts said last weekend it would be "some time" before Ohtani makes his next
appearance as a pitcher.
The right-hander then threw about 30 pitches off a mound Wednesday during a
bullpen session in Philadelphia, but Roberts said Ohtani felt a "little bit of
regression."
"It was obviously not ideal, him throwing his last bullpen and going backwards
essentially," Roberts said. "So obviously that's disappointing because you
throw a bullpen, you continue to build up. So that was disappointing, but as
far as worry, concern, we don't have any of that."
Ohtani is 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 85 2/3 innings over 14
starts on the mound this season and has won his past six decisions. He entered
Saturday batting .286 with 22 homers, 61 RBIs and a .920 OPS.
In other injury updates, two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell made a
second rehab start Friday night for Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Sidelined since his season debut May 9 because of loose bodies in his pitching
elbow, the left-hander threw 49 pitches and allowed one run and two hits in 2
2/3 innings. Roberts said Snell likely will progress to four innings in his
third rehab outing.
Star closer Edwin Daz (right elbow surgery) will make another rehab appearance
Sunday for Oklahoma City and, if all goes well, the right-hander is expected to
be activated from the injured list Wednesday.
Tyler Glasnow, on the 60-day IL since May 8 because of low back spasms, threw
25 pitches in one simulated inning Friday. Glasnow will pitch in another
simulated game next week when the Dodgers return home and might start a rehab
assignment after that.
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