Shohei Ohtani injury scare had Dodgers fans about to faint (but thankfully he's OK)

Shohei Ohtani's 10th start of the season and first ever at Coors Field ended up as a pretty ugly affair for the Dodgers. Although there were some discussions about Ohtani going five innings for his longest start of the year so far, the Rockies jumped on him in the second and fourth innings to go up by five runs. The Dodgers' offense had to wait until the sixth for their first run, when Teoscar Hernández homered.

Colorado tacked on three more off of Paul Gervase and Jack Dreyer, while LA could only muster up two more runs (partially thanks to some shoddy defense for the Rockies).

It was another brutal loss for the Dodgers, who will have to settle for a split series at best, but the real story was Ohtani, when he took a liner to the leg in the bottom of the fourth, which allowed the Rockies' fourth run to score.

It almost took him down, but he had the ability to chase the ball toward the first base line. He couldn't scoop it in time to have a play anywhere, and he started to limp back toward the mound before being quickly attended to by trainers.

Shohei Ohtani took a 93 MPH liner to the leg in Dodgers-Rockies but thankfully came out okay

Ohtani managed to finish out the inning after allowing one more run to score, but he was replaced by Edgardo Henriquez in the fifth. Ohtani logged another at-bat that ended in a walk, but he was replaced in the lineup altogether in the eighth, with Alex Call coming in to pinch hit at the top of the order, which only added to Dodgers fans' concerns.

After the game, Dave Roberts calmed fears when he said that Ohtani was pulled as a precautionary measure — "he was concerned his right thigh would stiffen up on him." Ohtani was already expected to be out of the lineup on Thursday, but he should be back for the first game of the Padres series.

The Dodgers will head to San Diego with a two-game lead at most, depending on how the Dodgers' series against the Rockies and the Padres' against the Giants shake out on Thursday. Ohtani's had a rough recent stretch as a pitcher, and he's still exponentially more important as a hitter. Thankfully, it doesn't look like the Dodgers will be losing him in either capacity despite the scary moment, but we'll be keeping close tabs here because we know Roberts' history of relaying incorrect injury information.