Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is out of the lineup again, this time with a sore side.

Ohtani was scheduled to bat second and designated hitter in the Angels’ home game against the Baltimore Orioles on April 5 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.

However, with just over an hour to go before kickoff, the Angels’ lineup was abruptly changed. “Ohtani was removed from the starting lineup due to tightness in his right lateral oblique,” the Angels’ PR team explained briefly.바카라사이트

But it’s been a series of red flags. On March 23, Ohtani was pulled from his start as a pitcher after feeling pain early in the game and was diagnosed with a right elbow ligament strain. Prior to that, he had already suffered one cramp that forced him to skip a rotation.

He was out for the season as a pitcher. However, even on the day of the elbow ligament damage, Ohtani continued to play the second game of the doubleheader as a designated hitter.

In this situation, the pain, this time in his side, is another red flag. The accumulated fatigue from his two-hitting duties over the past few years and his injury concerns from his regular season play since the World Baseball Classic (WBC) in March are coming together.

Before the game, Ohtani’s agent, Nez Valero, held a press conference and said, “Ohtani’s condition is fine, and there is no change that he will continue to do both (pitch and hit). Of course, the question is when and what kind of treatment. He will have some kind of procedure sooner or later,” he said cautiously but optimistically, but Ohtani developed a problem in his side during pregame training.

The Japanese media, who were on-site at Angel Stadium to watch him take pregame batting practice, were concerned that “Ohtani hit five home runs in 13 swings in batting practice today, but went behind the bench with a grimace on his face”. He was presumably in pain.

Meanwhile, the Angels removed Ohtani from the lineup and replaced him with Brandon Drury as the designated hitter.