{"id":57349,"date":"2025-05-26T08:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=57349"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:01:34","slug":"shohei-ohtani-pitching-return-makes-everything-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/shohei-ohtani-pitching-return-makes-everything-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani\u2019s Pitching Return Makes Everything Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just 22 pitches. But Shohei Ohtani hasn&rsquo;t thrown that many from a mound to live hitters since 2023. And it&rsquo;s Shohei Ohtani.<\/p><p>So yes, we are glazing a live BP. Because it&rsquo;s Shohei Ohtani. That&rsquo;s what happens when the biggest attraction in baseball does anything even remotely new. A routine step in rehab turns into a spectacle. Dodgers teammates crowded behind the cage. Mets players peeked in from their dugout. The whole thing had the energy of something far more consequential than a simulated inning.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Griffin Canning, Carlos Mendoza &amp; Jesse Winker are in the dugout to watch Shohei Ohtani&rsquo;s live BP session on the mound at Citi Field <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g75K5B4wTZ\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/g75K5B4wTZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNY_Mets\/status\/1926707049083154882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>On Sunday afternoon at Citi Field, Shohei Ohtani stepped back into something resembling his old self. He faced Dodgers teammates in a live batting practice session &ndash; his first since undergoing elbow surgery in September 2023. It drew lots of attention, like Shohei Ohtani usually does, because Shohei Ohtani was pitching again.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absurd movement on this pitch during Shohei Ohtani's live BP &#128293; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMHEmoX1y8\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/NMHEmoX1y8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1926743393117376526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>He worked through his full mix: fastballs sitting at 94-95 mph and touching 97, along with cutters, sinkers, sweepers, and splitters. Cameras caught one pitch, a sharp offspeed strikeout, that ended with a small fist pump.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shohei Ohtani Won&rsquo;t Go on a Rehab Assignment<\/h2><p>The Dodgers aren&rsquo;t sending him on a rehab assignment. Like the Angels did after his 2018 elbow surgery, they&rsquo;ll keep him close, building him up through simulated games while he remains in the lineup as a hitter. They don&rsquo;t want to lose the bat, and it&rsquo;s hard to blame them &ndash; Shohei Ohtani hit his 18th home run of the season just a few hours later, tying him with Aaron Judge and Kyle Schwarber for the MLB lead.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">Shohei Ohtani starts off <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SundayNightBaseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#SundayNightBaseball<\/a> with a BANG&#10071;&#65039; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hw8Jb4zNO8\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/Hw8Jb4zNO8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1926778645210632271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>That homer came on the second pitch of the game from Kodai Senga. It was also the Dodgers&rsquo; only run in a 3-1 loss. Before the injury in 2023, Shohei Ohtani had thrown 132 innings with a 3.14 ERA and 167 strikeouts. From 2021 to 2023, he posted a 2.84 ERA across 428 1\/3 innings with 542 strikeouts. Those are frontline-starter numbers.<\/p><p><strong>ALSO READ:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/is-pitching-worth-the-risk-for-dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Is Pitching Worth the Risk for Dodgers&rsquo; Star Shohei Ohtani?<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>If he can return to that version of himself on the mound, the Dodgers will be getting much more than their money&rsquo;s worth on a $700 million deal that has already proved profitable enough with a bat almost enough to get them a World Series ring. If Shohei Ohtani is back as a pitcher, and is able to do the numbers he&rsquo;s done before, the Dodgers will be potentially adding a top-tier pitcher to a rotation that&rsquo;s needed one &ndash; along with what Shohei Ohtani provides with the bat. This is what Shohei Ohtani has the power to do, and maybe with him not pitching since 2023, that&rsquo;s something that people forgot.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">PITCHER SHOHEI OHTANI HAS ARRIVED &#128680;<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4XCs6ytqAJ\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/4XCs6ytqAJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DodgersNation\/status\/1926722816751136954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Sunday was the first real sign of what&rsquo;s 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