CHICAGO — Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani wasn’t in the starting off lineup Monday in opposition to the Chicago White Sox but did pinch hit following struggling a minor groin damage working to 1st base Sunday.
Ohtani entered the activity in the top of the eighth as a pinch hitter and grounded out.
“We obtained him out of the match yesterday, more as a precaution than nearly anything,” coach Mike Frostad mentioned Monday morning.
Ohtani’s damage did not require an MRI and the group is hopeful he’ll be back again in the setting up lineup in the upcoming day or two.
“Nothing at all to rush on this however,” supervisor Joe Maddon mentioned.
Ohtani was scheduled to pitch Tuesday in Boston but that will be pushed back again till he’s all set to go. Maddon was asked if Ohtani will pitch at all in the a few-recreation sequence in opposition to the Purple Sox.
“I hope so,” he responded. “We’re likely to hold out a day or two to figure that out. He is sensation pretty good these days.”
Frostad extra: “We are going to have to see how it plays out more than the future few of days. We are not at a posture suitable now, on Monday, to make a perseverance on his subsequent start out.”
Ohtani was pinch hit for in the ninth inning of Sunday’s acquire above the White Sox soon after hitting into a double perform two innings before. He slowed down as he approached first foundation, primary to him coming out of the recreation.
Ohtani ranks initially in the American League with 17 runs and has a 4.19 Period in four games begun on the mound.