SAN FRANCISCO – Shohei Ohtani will make his next pitching start on Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies and will make one more start after that before the end of the regular season.

There are no plans for Ohtani to pitch out of the bullpen during the regular season as preparation for a relief role in the postseason and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the plan is to use Ohtani as one of the Dodgers’ starting pitchers during the postseason.

“Yeah, we do,” Roberts said Sunday. “Could it change down the road in the postseason? Possibly. But right now we see him as a starter.”

The fact that the Dodgers do not plan to give Ohtani a look out of the bullpen does not preclude that from happening at some point in the postseason, Roberts said.

“I don’t think it has to,” Roberts said. “I th

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