Early Sunday morning, hundreds of hikers and Dodgers fans gathered in a parking lot in Griffith Park. They were decked in blue, huddling in groups and dancing along to energetic music to shake off the predawn chill. As more people arrived, the sea of jerseys and baseball caps licked the edges of the lot. They call themselves the Dodgers Blue Hiking Crew. Among the team's ardent fanbase, they express their passion for the game in an especially Angeleno way. Rather than tailgate or organize watch...
SEOUL >> Mai Fukuo was gift-shopping for a friend. Hideki Chiba was in the same sports store in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo looking for something for his father-in-law.
SEOUL >> Shohei Ohtani is a soft-spoken, 6-foot-4 powerhouse. He is a unicorn: one of baseball’s best hitters and pitchers, the first to dominate both in nearly a century. He might one day be considered the greatest ever to play the game.
Horse racing is a sport full of jargon: for hardcore fans of the game, the sentence, “He worked a bullet over three panels in 35 and change” makes absolute and perfect sense. (The translation is: this horse was the fastest workout of the morning going three-eighths of a mile, traveling the distance in just over 35 seconds.) Read More
The experience at Oracle Park for San Francisco Giants games is going to be quite different this season, with a new lighting system, new sound system and a new voice of the ballpark. But while fans throughout the stadium will experience those changes — whether they are happy about them or not — there are a few tweaks for this year that will only be seen and felt by the team’s richest supporters. The Giants have added seat cushions to every seat in the stadium’s Field Club section, the section of...
Baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani will make his regular season debut with
It’s a business. There’s no way to use that phrase without coming off as patronizing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a fan, a baseball writer or an executive saying it. “It’s a business” feels like it should always be followed by several light pats on the head. It’s a business, you poor, confused child. Pat, pat, pat. Yes, professional sports is a business. We get it. But it’s also one of the weirdest businesses in the world. It’s regional pride wrapped up in silly tribalism, mixed with nostalgia and...
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (KABC) -- Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts brought the
Hundreds lined up at an Alhambra Raising Cane's Wednesday morning, and not just for the chicken.Fans dressed in Dodger blue surrounded the restaurant fast food chain, for their chance to be served by the Dodgers' Mookie Betts.Ahead of the 2024 Major League Baseball home opener, the Dodgers shortstop is serving chicken fingers instead of hits as he works his pre-game shift, for charity. From 10 to 11 a.m. Betts will work the drive-thru and front counter at Cane's on Valley Boulevard and New...
Pablo Sandoval sees 13 pitches, swings at 11 and sends the fans home happy with a ninth-inning single.
The Dodgers dominated the offseason with a $1.2-billion spending spree that included the acquisitions of two-way star Shohei Ohtani and pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow, but the three other division contenders didn’t exactly sit on their hands all winter, and they’re not about to raise a white flag this spring. Arizona’s rotation, led by Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly, should be even better when left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez, who signed a four-year, $80-million deal in December,...
Los Angeles Dodgers blue is in style in Japan as the popularity Shohei Ohtani continues to soar. Here's how much fans are paying for caps, jerseys and more.