NEW YORK -- Shohei Ohtani's availability wasn't all that uncertain in the first place. Not to his teammates, at least. The Los Angeles Dodgers flew to New York late Saturday night without Ohtani, who stayed in L.A. to get an MRI on his injured left shoulder. But he texted the group chat consisting solely of Dodgers players as his teammates rode an airport-bound shuttle, assuring them he felt fine and would be in the lineup for Game 3 of the World Series. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wasn't privy to that. "It would have been helpful if I saw that thread," said Roberts, who had Ohtani back in his customary leadoff spot for Monday's game from Yankee Stadium. "I would have slept better Saturday night." Ohtani put a scare into the Dodgers when he injured his left shoulder in an attempted steal of second base in the seventh inning of Game 2, a  4-2 win over the New York Yankees. But Roberts' nerves were calmed, at least slightly, when Ohtani's shoulder --...