Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss Shohei Ohtani’s injury and what it means for Game 3. Listen to the full conversation on the Baseball Bar-B-Cast podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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At the end of the seventh, Otani draws a walk.

And so Otani, who hasn’t been nearly as aggressive on base this October as he was in the regular season, tries to get something out of Clay Holmes with a first-pitch slider, and he nails Austin Wells’ perfect throw, the perfect day of Glaber.

And at first you think the crowd is like, oh, you know, like, man, like that would have been cool.

And then it’s like, oh my God, he’s still there.

It’s like, Oh, why is her Tony still at second base?

I didn’t really experience that here.

We’ve seen injuries before, but that was the moment it all stopped and he was on the ground.

Is it his wrist?

It’s his arm that we see in the replay.

He’s basically bracing himself with his left arm as he slides in feet first, his arm slamming into the ground a little harder than he would have liked instead of dragging it along the ground like you normally do behind you would do see on a slide like this.

And when you look at it like that, you think: OK, is it the wrist?

Is it the shoulder there, you know, the broadcast, reports Ken Roosevelt.

It’s a shoulder.

There are many people who speak Japanese and listen to the audio broadcast of the Japanese broadcast.

And you can hear Otani supposedly telling the coach in Japanese that my shoulder popped out.

So that’s what happens.

But because he just scored and there’s only a couple of him left, you know we won’t know and he’s the DH, we won’t know if he was taken out of the game.

That’s crucial here because he’s obviously not being used in defense and won’t strike again.

And so we both kind of noticed that right away and it’s like, okay, the next step is we all have to ask, go to like you well, because the range of options here is like, oh, maybe he just has just popped He’ll be fine, or it’ll be like he’s ready for the World Series.

Dave Roberts said, yeah, it’s a shoulder-in.

It is a subluxation, which is essentially some degree of dislocation.

But he said the strength tests Otani conducted were encouraging.

Now does that mean they’ll put the shoulder back in and he’ll be fine?

Does that mean they’ll still find out tomorrow when they do an MRI, whatever?

I don’t know it.

But the point is that Dave Roberts gave us something to sit on, but now everyone, including us, will be flying to New York in a few hours.

And sometime tomorrow, the Dodgers practice Sunday night in the Bronx.

Maybe we can get more information.

Maybe we don’t.

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