{"id":33995,"date":"2026-06-17T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-knee-to-make-scheduled-start-wed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:04:11","slug":"dodgers-shohei-ohtani-knee-to-make-scheduled-start-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-knee-to-make-scheduled-start-wed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Shohei Ohtani (knee) to make scheduled start Wed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jun 16, 2026, 08:31 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39832\/shohei-ohtani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will make his scheduled start on the mound against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Wednesday, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dodgers<\/a> manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani (6-2, 1.06 ERA) left last Thursday&#8217;s game in <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b8fc9be-4020-52c6-aa28-9a0f2d4383e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh<\/a> because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49035982\/dodgers-ohtani-exits-early-left-knee-inflammation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left knee inflammation<\/a>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49044483\/shohei-ohtani-not-dodgers-lineup-friday-avoids-il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sat out the next day&#8217;s game<\/a> against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8f4800c6-3c05-b3d5-8186-9750cd72a3c2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Sox<\/a> in Chicago, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49051633\/shohei-ohtani-back-dodgers-lineup-resting-knee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned for Saturday&#8217;s game<\/a>. This will be his first start since the injury in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said Tuesday the swelling in Ohtani&#8217;s knee had &#8220;completely dissipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw that he had just a catch-play right now,&#8221; Roberts said of Ohtani&#8217;s work. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to do his touchy-feely deal from the mound in a little bit. I saw him play some catch. Looks good, feels good. Look forward to him making a start tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Rays is an early afternoon start. It&#8217;s a tight window to prep and an early start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He likes his sleep. It&#8217;s certainly not ideal, but the calendar is the calendar,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;He&#8217;ll get his rest and do what he can to post tomorrow. &#8230; Anyone that has anything that has a potential red flag, we&#8217;ll certainly be watching closely. But again, he wouldn&#8217;t start if we felt that we were going to put him in harm&#8217;s way. He&#8217;s a competitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Ohtani would bat in addition to pitching, Roberts said he was undecided.<\/p>\n<p>In his last pitching start last Wednesday, Ohtani gave up four runs &#8212; three earned runs &#8212; in 6\u2154 innings and the Dodgers lost to Pittsburgh 9-8.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, utility man <a data-player-guid=\"0ffc6707-788d-30a1-0238-5cffffbec2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39907\/tommy-edman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tommy Edman<\/a> was reinstated by the Dodgers following offseason ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Edman, who was the 2024 NLCS MVP in the Dodgers World Series championship year, will make his season debut soon, although he wasn&#8217;t in the starting lineup on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good thing was, I saw progress with every step along the way. It just wasn&#8217;t as fast as I expected,&#8221; Edman said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"2a198a3b-d11f-c9b2-cc57-2e9f36837083\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39924\/santiago-espinal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santiago Espinal<\/a> was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 16, 2026, 08:31 PM ET LOS ANGELES &#8212; Shohei Ohtani will make his scheduled start on the mound against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0617%2Fr1674489_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}