{"id":904104,"date":"2026-06-30T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/904104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:09:19","slug":"dodgers-shohei-ohtani-is-scratched-from-wednesdays-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/904104\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is scratched from Wednesday’s start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers scratched Shohei Ohtani<\/a> from his scheduled Wednesday start against the Athletics and said he would instead start Friday at Dodger Stadium against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers<\/a> did not immediately say why they delayed Ohtani\u2019s start or who would start in his place Wednesday. Ohtani is in the lineup at designated hitter for Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

This series marks the Dodgers\u2019 lone scheduled visit to Sacramento during the A\u2019s three-year stay here. The A\u2019s plan to move into a new ballpark in Las Vegas in 2028, the next time the teams are scheduled to face off.<\/p>\n

Ohtani would have been starting on his usual six days rest. However, with the Dodgers on a run of 13 consecutive games without an off day, pushing Ohtani back at some point would allow the Dodgers to better manage his workload.<\/p>\n

He is 8-2 with a 1.58 earned-run average this season. Among National League pitchers with at least 70 innings, his ERA is bettered only by Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers (1.46).<\/p>\n

Ohtani already has pitched 79-2\/3 innings this season, his most in three years. He spent all of the 2024 season and the first half of the 2025 season rehabilitating from elbow surgery.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani, already elected as the NL designated hitter for next month\u2019s All-Star Game, would not pitch in that game if he were not the starting pitcher.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll obviously DH and then we\u2019ll go from there,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where he is with the pitching thing. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have carefully managed Ohtani\u2019s workload as a pitcher and might well prefer he be limited to DH in the game. It also would be impractical to have him warm up during a game in which he were hitting, and Misiorowski and Cristopher Sanchez of the host Philadelphia Phillies are top candidates to be the NL starting pitcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers scratched Shohei Ohtani from his scheduled Wednesday start against the Athletics and said he would instead…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":904105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[12615,1582,276,302582,2442,171424,5208,4246,2961,224,5337,21063,72666,28209,22875,5950,4712,22799,15613,69700],"class_list":["post-904104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-all-star-game","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dh","tag-dodgers","tag-dodgers-manager-dave-roberts","tag-friday","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-next-month","tag-nl","tag-pitcher","tag-sacramento","tag-season","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-start","tag-wednesday","tag-workload"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116841582946807108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904104","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=904104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}