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Dodgers pitcher/DH Shohei Ohtani was placed on the injured list (IL) on the 9th (10th Japan time) — his first IL stint since September 2023. After striking out in four straight at-bats against the Cardinals on September 2nd, he sat out four games before returning to the lineup on the 7th, but his form still hadn’t come back, prompting manager Dave Roberts to explain that they wanted to “use these 15 days to reset his body once.” On 5channel threads, speculation ran wild over the cause of his slump this season and how he’ll be used going forward, with the discussion spilling over into debate about the future of his two-way career.
<Dodgers 14-1 Reds> ◇September 9 (10th Japan time) ◇Dodger Stadium
Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani (32) is headed to the injured list (IL) for the first time since September 2023. Manager Dave Roberts revealed the news after the game, saying, “We’re putting Shohei on the IL. We want to use the 15 days to reset his body once and get his form back up.”
In the September 2nd game against the Cardinals (3rd Japan time), he struck out in four straight at-bats starting from his third plate appearance. He then sat out the next four games in a row. He returned to the starting lineup on the 7th, but with no improvement in his form, he was placed on the IL.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Go start a soccer thread instead.
Tell that to Tetsu Chiizu Karasu (a notorious 5ch copypasta persona associated with sports-thread spam).
Unless they come up with some countermeasure for AI and other pitch-prediction/scouting tools, he'll be useless even when he's back.
And if he's pitching, it'll just be relief duty — mop-up duty in blowout losses, no less.
What a humiliation.
Yeah, he can.
Diaz already pulled a mysteriously-timed IL stint to free up a pitcher's roster spot for the adjustment.
Your Japanese is so shaky it's hilarious lololololol
Or is he hurt and just can't train?
He should've taken a page from Snell's book. (fellow Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell)
That's probably just because they're only facing bottom-feeder teams for the rest of the regular season.
Wasn't he already playing in games?
Guess it's a changing of the guard now that Ohtani and Judge are both done for.
Oh, so now you've followed me into this thread too.
That's likely the call they've made.
It's a shame, but I guess we just have to let him rest the rest of this season, take his time healing, and pin our hopes on next year.
Pinch-hitter duty at best, I'd guess.
There's still Murakami. (Munetaka Murakami)
He was clearly hurt — what was the point of leaving him batting leadoff?
Obviously he's the one who turned it down, lol.
Go ask the man himself.
Probably gonna be the same story with the Olympics.
This definitely had an impact.
This was supposed to be his real comeback year for the two-way thing, so he should've started slow and built up toward Opening Day.
From a business standpoint too, benching your marquee player — who could still at least hit — for 15 days is a painful call.
I bet it wasn't easy for them to pull the trigger.
It's probably just a matter of time before he breaks down too, though — total deGrom trajectory.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
In Major League Baseball, a trip to the injured list (IL) requires a minimum 15-day stint, letting a team pull an injured player off the active roster and bring in a replacement. As manager Roberts explained, Ohtani has been struggling lately — striking out in four straight at-bats on September 2nd, missing four games, and returning on the 7th only to still be off his game — so this looks less like a specific injury and more like an attempt to reset his form. On the threads, reactions ranged widely: criticism over why the team didn’t decide to rest him sooner, speculation that his participation in this year’s WBC may have played a role, and even arguments that he should give up on the two-way experiment and focus solely on hitting. There were also baseless posts insinuating drug use, which have been excluded from this article. One point worth clarifying, since it’s easy to misread: going on the IL doesn’t automatically mean his season is over — rather, it’s being framed as a tune-up at this late stage of the regular season, ahead of the postseason.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5channel (Geinou/Sports Express+) thread ‘[Baseball] Shohei Ohtani placed on the injured list for the first time in 3 years, since September 2023 — Manager Roberts: ‘We’ll use the 15 days to reset his body once’‘.
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