Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani expected to play in World Series Game 3 despite shoulder injury

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is expected play in World Series Game 3, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Sunday.

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is expected play in World Series Game 3, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said at a press conference Sunday. Roberts told reporters that the ultimate decision is likely to come down to Ohtani’s ability to play through the pain associated with the left shoulder subluxation he sustained in Game 2 of the World Series Saturday. “If he feels good enough to go, I see no reason why he wouldn’t be in there,” Roberts said Sunday at Yankee Stadium, the site of Monday’s Game 3. A shoulder subluxation occurs when “the humerus partially slides in and out of place quickly,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Robert revealed that Ohtani would be at Yankee Stadium on Sunday evening to test the injured shoulder. “He’s got to still go through the workout and swing the bat,” said Robert. “But again, today feels better than yesterday, and our assumption is tomorrow is going to feel better than today. And so with that, that’s what I’m banking on.”