{"id":131963,"date":"2025-08-09T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131963\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:51:12","slug":"dodgers-roki-sasaki-shows-progress-in-simulated-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131963\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki shows progress in simulated game"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — Roki Sasaki<\/a> threw a three-inning simulated game Friday, and the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> rookie is on track to return late in the season.<\/p>\n

The Japanese phenom has been on the injured list since mid-May because of a right shoulder impingement.<\/p>\n

Sasaki tossed 46 pitches, with his velocity touching 97 mph at times, against outfielder Alex Call<\/a> and a few minor leaguers.<\/p>\n

“He accomplished what he needed to,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Roberts noticed Sasaki has added some weight through working with the team’s strength and conditioning coach.<\/p>\n

“He’s more physical,” Roberts said. “The throw wasn’t as shoulder-y. It was a little bit more clean.”<\/p>\n

Roberts said he wasn’t sure if Sasaki’s next move will be a rehab assignment or another sim game.<\/p>\n

“He was still kind of searching, as far as asking the pitching coaches some things, and that’s kind of what people do,” Roberts said. “Waiting for him to get to a point where he feels really comfortable and confident in his delivery and where he’s at, so he can attack the hitters, be his focus. We’re not there yet.”<\/p>\n

Sasaki arrived in the majors as one of the most touted pitchers in recent years, but he struggled in his first eight starts before getting hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — Roki Sasaki threw a three-inning simulated game Friday, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rookie is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-131963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999373633995664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}