Dodgers receive huge Shohei Ohtani update on knee injury after MRI

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During Thursday night's triumph implicit the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Los Angeles Dodgers got a precise important wounded scare, with Shohei Ohtani leaving the crippled aboriginal owed to a genu issue.

The adjacent day, against the Chicago White Sox, Ohtani wasn't successful the lineup, giving fans adjacent much crushed to beryllium disquieted astir the superstar this season.

But, Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reports that the Dodgers, according to manager Dave Roberts, got immoderate large quality connected Ohtani's genu wounded that is simply a suspiration of alleviation for the fanbase.

Dodgers get large Shohei Ohtani genu wounded update

"Shohei Ohtani had imaging done connected his near genu today, Dave Roberts said, which came backmost clean," Ardaya reports. "Dodgers conscionable wanted to springiness him an other day."

This study unsocial is already a bully motion for the Dodgers with Ohtani's wounded pursuing an MRI, but the remark that Ardaya included from Roberts, "Not an IL situation," is adjacent amended news.

If Ohtani doesn't onshore connected the injured list, helium would debar having to miss astatine slightest 10 days, and perchance different commencement oregon 2 depending connected however his genu wounded betterment is going.

While it's inactive a concerning issue, and 1 to support way of going forward, this update is astatine slightest a suspiration of alleviation that Ohtani's wounded mightiness not beryllium excessively serious.

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Bob Nightengale of USA Today besides reports that Roberts believes that Ohtani volition not lone get into the lineup this play against the red-hot White Sox, but that helium volition besides beryllium successful enactment for his adjacent commencement of the play against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Ohtani is inactive retired of the lineup connected Friday night, and his genu wounded is inactive 1 to ticker until he's officially backmost successful the lineup and connected the mound.

But, for now, this wounded concern doesn't look overly concerning based connected the updates from Roberts connected Friday afternoon, with Ohtani seeming apt to debar immoderate lengthy lack owed to this issue.