A “culmination” for Dodgers: the champions seem to be dangerous at home again

Los Angeles – The Vittoria tour of the Los Angeles Dodgers has returned home on Thursday. The Dodgers launched a blue carpet, wore golden accents on their uniforms and boasted a 400 million dollar payroll with the expectations of a dynasty. The charging samples of the World Series welcomed Detroit tigers and broke through the winner in office of the American League Cy Young, kicked off a celebratory weekend with a 5-4 victory.

The Dodgers roster continues to be a stress test and a measurement stick. They showed their new shiny toy, Blake Snell, who got a victory in his first start of a nine -digit contract. They flexed the depth of their range by foking the target of Tarik Skubal the third time through the order in which Teoscar Hernández launched a quick ball in the central field seats for a three -throwing house race. Their launch staff held the tigers without shots in 15 AT-BAT with the runners in a score position, with Blake Treinen who recorded the rescue.

More than anything else, they maintained the feast rolling.

Dodger Stadium is now “Baseball epicenter”, manager Dave Roberts repeatedly said this spring. It is almost never more true. A film trailer worthy of Tinseltown has proclaimed that “Hollywood Blockbuster of last year deserves a sequel”.

The unofficial hymn of the 2024 Dodgers, “Not like us”, echoed throughout the park when the starting formations were introduced. Ice Cube returned to a Dodger Blue Chevy Bel-Air and made a literal tour of the victory around the outer field while delivering the World Series trophy (Roberts did not show off His dance moves This time). Property members revealed a huge stent that was beyond the Field Center. The members of the Fire Brigade of Pasadena and Los Angeles have revealed a sign that commemorated the eighth title of the Dodgers.

Ice Cube brings the World Series Trophy to Dave Roberts and Shohei Ohtani. (Harry How / Getty Images)

Freddie Freeman, the MVP in office of the World Series, captured the first shot of the 1988 hero Kirk Gibson. The crowd roar for both.

“I thought the ceremony was fantastic,” said Roberts. “I thought it was a beautiful day, recognizing what we made in 2024. I thought the fans were really involved. … we nailed it.”

The coronation returned here after celebrating last October at the Yankee Stadium and embraced the global phase of this month in the Tokyo Dome. The Dodgers did not have a celebration after the 2020 title; Instead they received their championship rings in a partially full baseball field due to the restrictions of Covid-19. Now, in front of an exhausted crowd of 53,595 and full of speeches of dominate sport for the next decadethey could celebrate.

“Our fan base waited for a long time for this type of culmination,” said Roberts.

“This sensation at the moment is unbeatable for everyone,” Miguel Rojas said.

“They are many emotions,” said Hernández.

Due to Tokyo’s programming, the Dodgers came out of two wins on the rest of the sport before the opening day. Dodgers have an advantage that they tried to press in the wake of their second championship in five seasons. There seems to be no lesson.

They traveled like Globetrotters in Japan and return and won all three games to start the defense of the title.

“It simply does not affect our attention on the victory of a baseball match,” said Roberts.

The first start of Snell after signing a five -year agreement of $ 182 million, this winter represented a mixture. He didn’t miss Swing-and-Miss things, while the tigers suffered 14 times out of 92 shots, but he managed only two strikeouts. The tigers have never put him to gather, but has issued four walks to create his problems. He bounced a two -shot curve, with two out, loaded in bases on Ryan Kiedler to allow his first race.

“I think my only 1-2-3 inning was the first inning,” Snell said. “After that, it was a lot of struggle to go out.”

However, it allowed only two runs in total over five inning despite having the runners in a score position in all except the first inning.

“That’s a bit what he is, enduring the boys in a score position,” said Roberts.

The Dodgers played without Kiké Hernández, who was in line to start the second base. He approached herself badly and vomit in the preceding hours the open of the house. The Dodgers have not lost a beat behind a training in the process of consuming the launch staff throughout the summer. Even Skubal, who climbed among the best axes of this sport, was not immune. When Roberts opted to move Teoscar Hernández to third place, after Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts and got stuck in front of a third ex Mvp in Freeman, he called him a by -product of a “teoscar tax”.

A race in the soloist of Tommy Edman marked the only damage against Skubal through four inning before the two -out of Betts’ out of two outs to the fifth brought Hernández to the plate with two on.

Skubal had a bullied Dodgers with his fast balls all afternoon. Those who had left beyond the dish that had been squared all injured in opposite gloves. But when Skubal’s 75th shot, a quick 97 mph ball, moved to the heart of the plate, Hernández collapsed it in the seats of the central field to do it 4-2.

“He doesn’t leave many (fast balls) in the middle of the plate,” said Hernández. “Today I took one. I think I was lucky on that. Obviously I was ready for this. I just hit him.”

Two inning later, with Skubal out of the game, Ohtani wiped out a 96 mph platinum in the left field seats to keep the celebrations and provide an advantage of 5-3 for a Bullpen that allowed Detroit to stay around until Treinen did not burst Colt Keith with two for the end of the night.

It was a family formula. Thursday was a reminder not only of what the Dodgers made a year ago, but of what they can still do to do another celebration like this spring next spring.

“Playing in front of these fans and, in this circumstance, made me want to win (and be able to motivate myself to win another championship,” said Ohtani through the interpreter Will Ireton.

(Top photo of The Teoscar Hernández Home Run Celebration: Harry How / Getty Images)