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Ohtani may DH on Labor Day. He will not pitch this year. The math closed.

Roberts: if the knee and biceps hold, he’s in against Cincinnati. Four starts missed. The throwing program is on ice.

The Rocket News · Sports · Los AngelesSeptember 7, 2026 · 4 min read

An empty stadium at dusk, floodlights coming on over a vacant field.
An empty stadium at dusk, floodlights coming on over a vacant field.

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Shohei Ohtani sat a fourth straight start Sunday. Dave Roberts said the tentative plan is to write him in as designated hitter Monday against the Reds — Labor Day baseball, knee and biceps permitting. The cage work Saturday came out clean. Until the card is posted, it is hope. .279, 30 homers, 80 RBIs on the season; 7-for-51 in the last thirteen. September does not care about a two-way myth.

The throwing is another file. Roberts would not make it official and then did the calendar out loud: not enough throws, not enough week. A two-way season ends as a bat. The Angels, overnight, were sold to Stan Kroenke pending review — Arte Moreno’s 23 years done. Kimi Antonelli won Monza for Mercedes, first Italian home winner in sixty years. The Sports desk files the holiday: a DH maybe, a pitcher not, a franchise sold, a Grand Prix in the clip.

If you’re looking at the calendar, how much he’s thrown in the last week, I think we can all do the math.

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