{"id":459886,"date":"2023-09-20T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459886"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:52:47","slug":"ohtani-has-elbow-surgery-set-to-strike-next-year-pitch-in-25","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ohtani-has-elbow-surgery-set-to-strike-next-year-pitch-in-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani has elbow surgery; set to strike next year, pitch in &#8217;25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani had an elbow procedure, and his medical team shared he expects the 2-way player will be able to hit on Opening Day next campaign and will be able to pitch in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles player tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow at the end of last month, finishing his pitching campaign. Shohei continued as a batter through September 3<sup>rd<\/sup> until an oblique strain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shohei Ohtani underwent a procedure today, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffFletcherOCR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JeffFletcherOCR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to return as a hitter Opening Day 2024, and as a pitcher in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TAmTaEaiQa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TAmTaEaiQa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1704252650047566287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LA Dodgers chief physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache operated the Angels star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had an operation done on my elbow today, and everything went according to the plan,&#8221; Shohei shared on social media. &#8220;I want to show my gratitude for everyone&#8217;s prayers and kind words. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t finish the season on the field, but I will support my teammates no matter what happens. I will do everything to return as soon as possible, even stronger than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani had an elbow procedure, and his medical team shared he expects the 2-way player will be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":459887,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17073,17863,17254],"news_category":[16708,16715],"gn_keywords":[18552,18481,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Shohei has an elbow procedure that will keep him off the pitch for a long time.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459891,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459886\/revisions\/459891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459886"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459886"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}