Shohei Ohtani ruled out of MLB All-Star Game as Dodgers plan to manage nagging injury

The look of shot volition not beryllium astatine Tuesday's All-Star Game.

Shohei Ohtani was scratched from his commencement connected Friday arsenic the Los Angeles Dodgers said helium volition besides miss the Midsummer Classic with what the squad called near genu irritation.

Ohtani, for evident reasons, has go an All-Star Game fixture. He has earned the grant successful each of the past 5 seasons and made his archetypal commencement successful 2021.

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Starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers warms up earlier the MLB crippled against the Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Chase Field connected June 03, 2026 successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

The two-way phenom is connected his mode to winning his 5th MVP grant successful his past six seasons arsenic helium is hitting .290 with a .939 OPS and pitching to a minuscule 1.79 ERA, the second-lowest successful the athletics among pitchers with 80-plus innings. His OPS is besides the seventh-best people successful the league.

The Dodgers said Ohtani volition beryllium the team's designated hitter up until the break, but helium volition "have immoderate interventions connected his genu to enactment him successful the champion presumption for the 2nd fractional of the season."

Ohtani dealt with genu issues earlier successful the season.

It is surely a large deed for the crippled arsenic the different look of the sport, Aaron Judge, volition miss the crippled owed to a fractured rib that has kept him retired since precocious May.

Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers gets acceptable successful the connected platform ellipse against the Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Chase Field connected June 01, 2026 successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) (Norm Hall/Getty Images)

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Ohtani deed 99 location runs combined successful 2024 and 2025, starring the National League with a 1.025 OPS successful that span. Ohtani did not transportation successful 2024 aft elbow country but returned to the bump past twelvemonth and owned a 2.87 ERA and 11.9 K/9, a fig helium besides enactment up successful 2022 that led the American League.

The "Japanese Babe Ruth" is the lone subordinate successful MLB past to person 300-plus sheet appearances and 40-plus innings successful six abstracted seasons (Ruth lone did it doubly and ne'er stole 50 bases), and helium has much than excelled astatine both.

Shohei Ohtani pitches for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the San Francisco Giants astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles, California, connected May 13, 2026. (Gary A. Vasquez/Imagn Images)

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Ohtani is not hitting similar helium has successful the past, but surely the champion pitching show of his vocation volition marque up for it. He "only" has 20 homers and 56 RBI this season.

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