{"id":348588,"date":"2025-11-01T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:56:11","slug":"shohei-ohtani-to-start-world-series-game-7-for-dodgers-against-blue-jays-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348588\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani to start World Series Game 7 for Dodgers against Blue Jays \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani will start Game 7 of the World Series for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> against the Toronto Blue Jays, showcasing the two-way star on the mound in the sport&#8217;s biggest game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/Shohei-Ohtani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starting Ohtani <\/a>makes more sense for the Dodgers than using him in relief.<\/p>\n<p>Under a rule adopted for the 2022 season, pitchers who start games in the batting order can remain in the game as a designated hitter after leaving the mound. If Ohtani would start the game only as a DH and then would take the mound, the Dodgers would lose their DH and pitchers would have to bat in that slot if Ohtani was relieved.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani has never pitched in relief during his Major League Baseball career. He made a handful of relief appearances in Japan for the Pacific League\u2019s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, mostly as a rookie in 2013. He closed out Japan\u2019s victory in the 2023 World Baseball Classic final against the United States, striking out then-Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani is batting .318 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/world-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> with three homers, five RBIs and eight walks. He is 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA, striking out six and walking one in his Game 4 start as he threw 93 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game in Game 2 of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer is to start for Toronto, becoming only the fourth pitcher to start multiple winner-take-all Game 7s.<\/p>\n<p>Only Bob Gibson (1964, \u201967, \u201968) and Lew Burdette and Don Larsen (both 1957 and \u201958) have started multiple winner-take-all Game 7s in the World Series. Burleigh Grimes started Game 7 in 1920 and \u201931, but his first was in a year the Series was best-of-nine.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer also started the last World Series Game 7 in 2019, boosted by a cortisone injection for an irritated nerve near his neck. Mad Max didn\u2019t have a clean inning and left after five trailing by two runs before his Washington Nationals rallied to win 6-2 in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>A 41-year-old right-hander and three time Cy Young Award winner, Scherzer allowed three runs and five hits over 4 1\/3 innings in Game 3 on Monday, which the Dodgers won in 18 innings. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBaseball fans are paying thousands to stay at the Toronto Marriott City Centre, the only hotel inside a Major League ballpark, where guests can watch the World Series right from their rooms.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani will start Game 7 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,25454],"class_list":{"0":"post-348588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115475971192910383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348588","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=348588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}