Shohei Ohtani's truly magical, utterly exciting and historically good season has unfortunately proven be too good to be true.
The "arm fatigue" that kept the two-way superstar from pitching for two weeks and caused him to leave his start on Wednesday after 1.1 innings was revealed to be something more nefarious: a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. He's done pitching in 2023.
MLB.<a href="https://twitter.com/Angels?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Angels</a> announce Shohei Ohtani has been diagnosed with a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his right elbow and will not pitch again this season.