Dodgers News: Shohei Ohtani Honest on Start, No DH Decision in Loss | ドジャース 大谷翔平

Shohei, when you look at this outing, just the pitch count getting up a little bit early, did you find that tonight was a bit of a grind for you personally?

I don't think it was good overall.

From the bullpen, I didn't exactly feel like my stuff was in line with where I wanted to be.

I feel great physically, but I think it's something to do with my mechanics.

What does pitching but not hitting do to sort of help preserve you for the course of the season?Is that something that you feel like is going to help you sort of be able to last through the entire career?

What do you think?

Personally, I'm fine with either.I want to go with what I was told.Looking at the team as a whole, it's been a long season, so there may be some players I want to try with DH.I think it might be a plus to be able to keep the season healthy.

I'm going to prepare the best that I can with whatever the team expects is the best for me and for the team.We're only going to find out at the totality if it's a plus or a minus.I think for players who want to do two -way and if they want to DH, I think they should be You know, they should get the option to do DH, but at the same time, it's hard to tell now.We'll see how it goes at the end of the season.

You talked about the advantage of when you're not hitting being able to talk through the last inning and the next inning in the dugout.Just after that fifth inning, did that help you get back on track having that time before you went back out there to sit?

You said that you were able to communicate with your opponent, but after the 5th set, did the plus factor work?

It's not that I was able to do it because I was focused on pitching.I think it's just that the 5th set wasn't good enough.I think it's a good thing that I was able to throw the 6th set well, but I think it's just that the 5th set wasn't good enough.

Yeah, I do agree with your assessment in terms of, you know,being able to have time to discuss and have a clean inning.But same time, the fifth inning today, I just didn't really enter into the fifth executing.So yeah.

How easy has it been for you to keep the bigger picture when they've approached you with days like today where you are pitching and not hitting?

Do you have any plans for October?

Well, as I said before, I don't have any plans for October.I think it would be ideal for all of us to be in good shape for October without any injuries.

I'm always going to respect the decision regardless of whether I'm pitching or doing both.But I also really understand the importance of getting into the end of the season with everybody healthy.So, you know, talking with the training staff, talking with the team, I think it's really important that the team makes a decision on what's good for the team.

I want to get better as soon as possible.

I do feel like over the course of my career, it's just a reality that I don't exactly, I'm not hitting at the best of my ability this part of the year, but also at the same time as a player, I do want to be better and get to the position where I'm feeling really good.So, you know, it's a really a balancing act of the two.Is it difficult to keep your body in good shape?

I don't think it's that difficult to keep your body in good shape.But there are things that you have to do to keep your body in good shape.First of all, you have to take care of your health.When you think about the total amount of exercise you do in a day, It is easier to maintain something good when things are going well, but when things are

going well, it's not easy in a sense that I do have to kind of make sure that I'm healthy and not overdoing in terms of repetition.So while I'm working on certain things, it's also a balancing act of making sure that I'm not overdoing physically and making sure that I'm healthy.