LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers lineup for the home opener on Thursday against the Cardinals looks very familiar, because it’s the same starting lineup, with the same nine players at the same positions in the same order as they used in both games in Seoul, South Korea. That includes Jason Heyward, who was scratched from Tuesday’s Freeway Series exhibition finale in Anaheim with lower back tightness. Heyward is playing right field and batting eighth, just as he did in the first two games of the regular...
While some Yankee players are still in Florida tuning up for the season, a good portion of the spring squad is off to Mexico City to take on the Diablos Rojos. Just a few days from the start of the regular season, the Bombers will continue their exhibition schedule in one of the world’s biggest cities, against a squad boasting some familiar faces. Tanner Tully will be taking the bump for the Yankees, who has done a nice job in limited time this spring. In three games (one start), the 29-year-old...
To Dave Roberts, Thursday afternoon felt nostalgically, longingly, thankfully familiar. The afternoon start time. The red, white and blue bunting. Even the traffic clogging up Vin Scully Avenue on the first of his 80 commutes, at least, into Chavez Ravine this year. “You feel the buzz,” said Roberts, entering his ninth year as Dodgers manager. “Nothing like opening day here at Dodger Stadium.” This year, especially. After a historic $1.4-billion offseason spree, a winter of mounting fan base...
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Storm clouds of the literal variety gathered above Chavez Ravine as Sunday afternoon’s Freeway Series exhibition game between the Dodgers and Angels began. But as dark as the clouds were, they were far less threatening and ominous than the figurative ones hovering over the Dodgers since news of the illegal gambling and theft scandal involving slugger Shohei Ohtani and his now-former interpreter and confidant, Ippei Mizuhara, broke on Thursday. The Dodgers have dealt with their share of off-field...
Stanton blasted three HRs in his first three at-bats Wednesday night with eight RBIs against Pirates. Judge had an RBI double and a walk in his return.
Former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams was back at camp as guest instructor on Saturday, joining teammate Andy Pettitte and four-time World Series-winning manager Joe Torre. The trio
In honor of the this week, we thought it would be fitting to help introduce the and to one of South Korea’s most powerful diplomatic tools and global exports: K-pop. After all, you can’t spell bats without BTS. So what is K-pop, exactly? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not a genre but an entire musical subculture — though the word is now often used as an umbrella term for most popular music coming out of Korea. Though its influence in the West might be less visible to the average sports fan,...
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The Cardinals' opening day lineup features four players age 23 or younger for the first time since 1924. First pitch for Thursday's opener in LA is set for 3:10 p.m.