LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Dodgers are up 2-0 on the New York Yankees in the World Series, heading back to New York, but it hardly feels like that.
When Shohei Ohtani attempted to steal in the eighth inning, his team was drenched in discomfort at following base, which was the backdrop of Saturday night’s 4-2 victory in Game 2. Ohtani leaned over to the left shoulder as he left the field.
The Dodger dugout’s feeling changed right away.
” Not only in the bleachers, but the whole venue went silent”, said Teoscar Hernandez, whose third-inning household work ahead of Freddie Freeman gave the Dodgers much runs to win the game. To understand how significant Shohei has been to us. Maybe he will be alright.
Ohtani suffered a dislocation of the head, director Dave Roberts said, meaning in layman’s terms that he had a limited displacement of that combined.

On the day before Game 3 at Yankee Stadium on Monday evening, Roberts said Ohtani will have an MRI on Sunday. His position for that activity and the rest of the line, for that matter, is in question.
” We’ll hear more in the next couple of days”, Roberts said. ” But the power was tremendous, the range of motion was excellent. So we’re encouraged. Because we do n’t have the scans yet, I do n’t want to speculate. We’ll hear more once we get them. But I take that as a optimistic”.
The Dodgers flew to New York right away after the activity. Ohtani was never made available for comment.
The Dodgers signed Ohtani for$ 1. 025 billion in addition to the other two Chinese free agents in the winter. Ohtani signed for 10 years at$ 700 million with$ 680 million deferred. The Los Angeles Angels had signed him for the previous six times. The other was cup Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who came straight from Japan, signing a 12-year,$ 325 million offer.
Both participants played a significant role in the account on Saturday night. Yamamoto held the Yankee to a work on a single hit, a Juan Soto odysseus with two out in the second inning, into the eighth inning. Before Roberts struck him with one out in the top of the eighth inning after Giancarlo Stanton bursts into second base, he retired the last eleven batters.
Since throwing seven innings on June 7 in a 3-1 victory over the Patriots in New York, it was his longest vacation. He left with a sore right shoulder in his next start against Kansas City, but he did n’t make another start until Sept. 10 when he did n’t make another start. Since then, the Dodgers have been rehabilitating him.
” He had n’t been this effective since the first Yankee game”, Roberts said. This was a great building block game, I thought. He threw 87 innings. We had a great basis. I genuinely desired for him to reach the eighth inning, get one more striker, and then touch Stanton.
It was all good thoughts and praise going into the middle of the sixth, the Dodgers leading, 4-1. Opening the round, Yankees reliever Clay Holmes struck out Miguel Rojas before walking Ohtani, who allegedly attempted to steal following on Mookie Betts ‘ first ball.

Ohtani, the second 50/50 player in MLB history during the regular season with 54 homers and 59 stolen foundations, has n’t swiped a foundation during the playoffs. He slammed his left wrist into the ground as he tried to steady himself, but he slid oddly. The head suddenly popped out of shared as a result of that activity.
Roberts was asked if the steal effort was ill-advised. He claimed Ohtani was always allowed to steal on his own.
” He’s a very perceptive baserunner”, Roberts said. In a World Series game, he was attempting to make a second move. It was the right sing, but occasionally baseball happens”.
Ohtani has had an injury-plagued occupation in Japan and with MLB. He has had knee replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery, and two Tommy John operations to restore the medial ligament. He has been rehabbing his pitch arm all season with the intention of returning to the mound next spring after the second one from the offseason.
The Dodgers have suffered numerous injuries to key players all season, but Ohtani, in the DH role, has n’t been one of them. Until today. He played in a career-high 159 regular season games and in all 13 thus far in the finals.
Roberts was questioned about his readiness to miss Ohtani for the remainder of the World Series. That would hurt MLB’s chances of winning the Fall Classic for the first time in a whole regular year since 1988 as well as its international exposure.
” I’m not that but”, Roberts said. ” I expect him to be there. I’m expecting him to be in the lineup”.