A week from today the Dodgers open the 2024 season with the Padres in Seoul, South Korea. This will be the third time the Dodgers will open their season in a foreign country: 2014 in Australia and 2018 in Mexico were the others. It’s also the third continent they’ll open on, more than any other team in MLB.
They still have some spring training games to play though, and today’s is against the Mariners at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers’ Yoshi Yamamoto will be making his third start of the spring; he’s gone five innings, struck out seven, walked three, and had one good outing and one poor one.
The Dodgers are 13-4 so far this spring, which doesn’t mean anything except as a hopeful precursor of what’s to come this season.
Sorry, guys, I forgot to put up a game thread. I’ll do better tonight.
NPUT
Woo-HOO!
Dodgers win!!
Still waiting for the Dodgers to get on track with the bats and string some hits together.
Heyward with the sac fly. 1-1
Dodgers doing everything better than the Padres but still losing 1-0.
Bases loaded for Muncy. Let’s go Max.
Ohtani with the Max Muncy special: single and stolen base.
Ump missed that pitch. But Glasnow only needed one extra pitch to get out of the inning.
Max with the first hit of 2024. And also the first (official) stolen base.
Glasnow bounced a couple of pitches to a few batters but other than that looked pretty good in his first inning.
Mookie had stolen a base in the top of the first, but ump interference sent him back to first. Don’t see that very often.
Not seeing a game thread – but I’m up at 5am watching Game 1 in Seoul.
Ohtani sure is fast getting down the line to first base!
Where is everybody?
Looking for a new game thread?
Snell signing a two=year deal with the Giants with an opt-out after one year, the new norm for clients of Boras:
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-2-time-cy-young-winner-blake-snell-agrees-to-62-million-deal-with-giants-after-3-seasons-with-padres-012743386.html
I expect he’ll be a disappointment, a five-inning pitcher who’ll tax their ‘pen. Might be enough to keep them ahead of the Rox, though.
Video and game story of the Dodgers versus Team Korea.
Lacking much else to do this evening, I just started watching the whole game. Given my insomnia issues, there’s a good chance I’ll be awake on Opening Overnight Wednesday.
Regular 3 a.m. starts would be perfect for my insomnia.
I have no trouble getting to sleep at a reasonable hour, but I can’t keep it up all night. I take sleeping pills then, but they’re a less than perfect solution.
Similar to my situation, but research the impact of long-term usage of sleeping pills.
I try to avoid them if possible, but do take them most nights.
Even given that South Korea’s a much smaller country than Japan, I was surprised to see that the Gocheok Dome seats fewer than 17,000.
It’s only 9 years old. But, “It also serves as a concert venue, with a capacity for around 25,000 spectators.”
Apparently, then, they can seat more spectators on the Trashtroturf in that case.
Do ya like S(e)oul music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3JOzcpBds&t=8s
Yamamoto’s a tinkerer with his motion and his mechanics, even when his coaches don’t agree. In Japanese baseball, that’s unusual.
Yamamoto says he enjoyed spring training and was happy with his preparation for the season. Not worried about the stats.
Unfortunately, another poor outing from Yamamoto today.
https://twitter.com/BenVerlander/status/1768008264787394870