Los Angeles Dodgers vs Arizona Diamondbacks highlight: Shohei Ohtani leads off the bottom of the 1st inning with a home run just hours after being scratched from his scheduled pitching start due to left knee irritation. The blast — his 21st home run of the season and 8th leadoff homer of 2026 — kept his MVP case alive even as the Dodgers manage his knee heading into the All-Star break.
Ohtani was pulled from Friday’s mound start against Arizona so the Dodgers could turn it into a bullpen game and avoid aggravating the knee further, but he stayed in the lineup at DH and delivered anyway, muscling a 381-foot shot to left-center before jogging the bases a little gingerly. He’ll have the knee drained Sunday and will miss next week’s All-Star Game in Philadelphia as a result — this comes just days after he launched the 300th home run of his career. Despite the injury, the Dodgers sit atop the NL West at 61-33 and remain the team to beat heading into the second half.
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