{"id":7230,"date":"2025-05-20T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/ohtani-progresses-curveballs-in-dodgers-aces-rehabilitation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:02:36","slug":"ohtani-progresses-curveballs-in-dodgers-aces-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/ohtani-progresses-curveballs-in-dodgers-aces-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani Progresses: Curveballs in Dodgers Ace&#8217;s Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shohei Ohtani Incorporates Curveballs in His Recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has begun incorporating breaking pitches into his training sessions, marking a significant step forward in his recovery following elbow surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right-handed pitcher, who had previously been limited to throwing fastballs and splitters, is working hard to return to the mound this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed that Ohtani is getting closer to facing live hitters for the first time since undergoing his second Tommy John surgery in September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n    \n    <p>&#8220;He&#8217;s progressing,&#8221; Roberts stated. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure when he&#8217;ll incorporate the slider from flat ground to the bullpen, but it&#8217;s progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n    \n    <cite>Dave Roberts, Dodgers Manager<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohtani is expected to return to the mound around the All-Star break in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding his offensive performance, Ohtani is batting .312 and led Major League Baseball with 17 home runs before Tuesday&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani Incorporates Curveballs in His Recovery Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has begun incorporating breaking pitches into his training sessions, marking a significant step forward in his recovery following elbow surgery. The right-handed pitcher, who had previously been limited to throwing fastballs and splitters, is working hard to return to the mound this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[566,344,1150,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-7230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-dodgers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pitching","11":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}