{"id":162792,"date":"2025-08-21T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:36:18","slug":"rocky-and-painful-outing-for-shohei-ohtani-as-dodgers-lose-to-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162792\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky, and painful, outing for Shohei Ohtani as Dodgers lose to Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Shohei Ohtani was scheduled to pitch five innings Wednesday in Colorado. He lasted just four, yet the Dodgers<\/a> considered themselves fortunate he made it that far.<\/p>\n

The team and its star two-way player, who was appearing in his 1,000th big league game, courted disaster with one out in the fourth inning when the Rockies\u2019 Orlando Arcia lined a shot back to the mound that appeared to strike Ohtani above his right knee before caroming across the first-base foul line to drive in a run.<\/p>\n

Ohtani, in obvious discomfort, hobbled back to the mound to finish the inning, but didn\u2019t come back for the fifth inning of the Dodgers\u2019 8-3 loss<\/a>. He did come to the plate as the designated hitter in the fifth, drawing a walk, then left the game altogether after that, with Alex Call taking over as the DH in the eighth.<\/p>\n

If Ohtani\u2019s health is the team\u2019s primary concern at the moment, concerns over his last two performances<\/a> on the mound probably aren\u2019t far behind. Ohtani, making his 10th pitching start as a Dodger on Wednesday, gave up a season-high five runs and matched a career high with nine hits allowed against the weak-hitting Rockies, taking his first loss of the season. He has given up nine runs and 14 hits in his last 8 1\/3 innings, nearly doubling his season ERA from 2.37 to 4.61<\/p>\n

So while manager Dave Roberts admitted before the game that the Dodgers have had internal conversations about using Ohtani as a closer if they reach the postseason, those plans could soon be paused.<\/p>\n

Pitching in 93-degree temperatures, Ohtani looked rocky from the start, falling behind 2-0 in the second on Brenton Doyle\u2019s RBI double and a sacrifice fly from Arcia. Colorado made it 5-0 in the fourth, with the first five batters collecting hits, the last of those coming on Arcia\u2019s RBI single off Ohtani\u2019s leg.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Colorado\u2019s Tanner Gordon (4-5), who started the night with a 7.98 ERA, was breezing through the Dodgers\u2019 lineup, shutting them out on three hits before Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez belted an opposite-field homer, his 21st of the year, with one out in the sixth.<\/p>\n

The Rockies, who collected 16 hits on the night, got that run back in the bottom of the inning on Hunter Goodman\u2019s two-out single to left, which scored Arcia for the second time, then added two more in the eighth on a double from Goodman, who finished with three hits and three RBIs.<\/p>\n

Miguel Rojas made the final score look a bit more respectable for the Dodgers with a two-run, two-out double in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Even before taking the line drive off his body, Ohtani was scheduled to take Thursday off. With the Dodgers in the midst of a stretch that will see them play a season-high 19 games without a break, Roberts held shortstop Mookie Betts out of the lineup Wednesday and is expected to do the same with Ohtani, Hern\u00e1ndez and catcher Will Smith in the finale of the four-game Colorado series Thursday.<\/p>\n

Etc….<\/b><\/p>\n

Utility player Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez made a rehab appearance as the designated hitter for triple-A Oklahoma City on Wednesday. Hern\u00e1ndez has been on the injured list since July 7 with left elbow inflammation, but he could return to the Dodgers early next week. … Relievers Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott both threw hitless innings in rehab appearances for Oklahoma City on Tuesday and could rejoin the team in San Diego this weekend. … Before Wednesday\u2019s game, the Dodgers recalled right-hander Paul Gervase from triple A and optioned right-hander Alexis Diaz. Gervase, 25, acquired from Tampa Bay at the trade deadline, appeared in five games with the Rays this season, striking out six batters in 6 1\/3 innings. He made his Dodgers debut against the Rockies, giving up a run and two hits in two innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Shohei Ohtani was scheduled to pitch five innings Wednesday in Colorado. He lasted just four, yet the Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[11632,94094,8329,2442,1910,94092,1266,94093,94095,26804,3549,62,51383,2450,94091,5618,67,132,68,15613],"class_list":{"0":"post-162792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-batter","9":"tag-catcher-will-smith","10":"tag-dodger","11":"tag-dodgers","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-lineup-change-wednesday","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-rehab-appearance","16":"tag-relievers-kirby-yates","17":"tag-roberts","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tanner-scott","21":"tag-thursday","22":"tag-triple-a-oklahoma-city","23":"tag-tuesday","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064667159811402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162792","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=162792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}