ROME, OCTOBER 27 – The Los Angeles Dodgers won the first two games of the baseball World Series in the stellar match against the great rivals New York Yankees, but the 4-1 success obtained last night had a bitter ending, an injury to champion Shohei Ohtani. The Japanese player suffered a partial dislocation of his shoulder and will have to undergo tests to understand if he will be able to continue the series, the best of seven matches, which includes the next one in the Italian night between tomorrow and Tuesday, in New York. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani had been diagnosed with a “small subluxation of his left shoulder” and would still undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury. Roberts, however, said he was optimistic, believing that his star could be present in the rest of the series. Asked whether the Dodgers would be able to pull it off if Ohtani was ruled out of the remainder of the series, Roberts said he wasn’t ready to contemplate that scenario. “There’s no … I expect there to be. I expect it to be in the lineup,” Roberts said. A two-time American League MVP with the Los Angeles Angels before joining the Dodgers this season on a record contract, Ohtani is expected to win National League MVP honors this year after becoming the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season. (HANDLE).
