Philadelphia – The last time Shohei Otani I took over the embankment against Philadelphia PhillisThis was the first time that all year he looked like a real starting jug again.
Ohtani, of course, broke a lot In that game September 16 at the Dodger stadiumWhen he spun five innings without defeat against the Phillies team on the verge of the title of the Eastern Division of the National League. Until that moment, a bilateral star began to begin in the previous three months in his return after the second career of Tommy John.
However, during this segment, Otan was under strict restrictions. After that, he defeated only one Inning in his first two outputs, two fits in pairs, and continued the slow, gradual increase over the next weeks. For many of these early starts, the right -wing one did not even use his full arsenal of feeds, limiting himself mainly by fastballs and sweeping machines when he tried to hone his speed and sharpen his rusty team.
It was in Otan in the “rehabilitation mode” as DODERS Described this.
Priority remained in protecting his surgical repair of the elbow.
But then a meeting came with Phillis, in which Otani finally looked ready to turn the page.
He completed five servings only in the second season. He did this with an impressive dominant lightness of 68 steps. He used his full mixture, from fastball, which exceeded 101.7 miles per hour to a slider, which caused a 50% velocity of food to a combination of sinker/cutter/branch, in which Shavil was thrown various directions to all quadrants of the plate. He collected five outs and passed only one.
“He was phenomenal,” recalls the Phillies manager Rob Thompson. “It was a combination of power, control, commands, things.”
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Three weeks later, Otan is again going to fight Phillis, in the game 1 of the National League division of the Citizens Bank Park on Saturday night.
And this time he will not be subjected to restrictions on the workload, which forced him to make an early exit from the previous previous application.
Plan, manager Dodgers Dave Roberts He said on Friday, “just treat him as an ordinary jug.”
“This is what we were waiting for the whole year,” added Roberts, opening the door for Okhtani to go to six or seven servings in what will be his debut in the MLB season. “He is ready by this moment. So, for me I will just sit back and carefully monitor. ”
“I am sure that I am nervous from time to time,” Otani told Otil Ireton's translator. “But moreover, I am just very grateful that at this time of the year I can play baseball.”
If it were not for the beginning of September against Phillis, it is unclear whether Otan will now be with such freedom.
That night, Roberts removed Otani from his lifeless bet, because when he set him after the game, he did not feel comfortable, deviating from the prescribed superstar submission plan.
However, what Roberts did in this game was to ask Otani how he felt after the fifth Inninga to collect information that Doders could use in the future. Otani told Roberts that he still felt strong. Thus, in its last regular season began a week later in Arizona, the team allowed him First entered the sixthField
Dodedes is still trying to remember the bilateral burden of Otan. He begins the game 1 of this series (which will follow the day off on Sunday), because they did not want to break it at the beginning of the wild card, and then force him to hit in the next days.
But in the future, the president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman He said that the club plans to use Otani as “a regular starting jug now.” There are no more predetermined restrictions. There are no more power considerations in the field of healthcare.
“I am very glad that I was able to put an end to the development of rehabilitation at this moment,” Otani said, thinking about the September start, which signaling that he was ready. “It’s just very important to be healthy for me, so I am just grateful for it.”
List and rotation notes
Roberts said after Okhtani, Blake Snell Most likely, the game 2, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto And Tyler Glaznov lined up for games 3 and 4, respectively. GLASNOW will also be available from the GRD to play 1.
Clayton Kershaw It will be part of the NLDS team after it was stopped in the round of wild cards. Roberts said he would play in the role of help.
Trap Will Smith It is expected that it will be on the list again, like one of three catchers, Roberts said, but his accessibility to start the game remains in question. Although Smith's fracture was healed, he is still in the process of restoring strength and endurance after passing the last few weeks. He was supposed to take part in the field of life during the training of the team on Monday.
