{"id":347901,"date":"2025-11-01T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/347901\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:57:10","slug":"dodgers-plan-to-start-shohei-ohtani-on-short-rest-in-game-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/347901\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers plan to start Shohei Ohtani on short rest in Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodgers are planning to go with Shohei Ohtani to start Game 7, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reported. And that makes the most sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to a quirk in rules, the Dodgers would lose the DH if Ohtani came in as a reliever but not as a starter. That\u2019s what makes him a better option to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani will be pitching on three days\u2019 rest (and three days since he needed IVs to recover from his historic Game 3 performance). So he may wind up being more opener than starter. Still, it\u2019s the right choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Ohtani does start, it\u2019ll be a matchup of future Hall of Famers since Max Scherzer is Toronto\u2019s starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers are planning to go with Shohei Ohtani to start Game 7, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reported.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":347902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2502,1266,4712,62,2632,2225,1290,67,132,68,25454],"class_list":{"0":"post-347901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-shohei-ohtani","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-columnists","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115474323500735776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347901","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=347901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}