Phoenix – It looked like the last day of the school in Ranch Camelback on Tuesday K. Evading The tanks were cleaned and prepared to break the camp, as some head to Tokyo in the first two games of the season and they move to the Legue Minor complex.
Dozens of blue pirate bags filled with gloves and bats are scattered on the rugs covered. The players also filled the huge cardboard boxes with other personal things and then closed them with the packing tape. Abroad, the club workers fill in huge tractor trailers heading to the Dodger Stadium and a large moving truck with equipment to Japan.
One of the attendees said: “We are talking about platforms, platforms and platforms.”
Each other team will soon perform a similar ballet with the approaching spring training from its end. Although Day Day is a little more complicated for Dodgers, who take a distortion to Japan on their way home, it is something that the team has used to since the season opened abroad three times since 2014.
“We know somewhat what can be expected this year,” he said Will SmithThe opening match in Seoul, South Korea, caught last March. “A different country, but it still has ended in Asia. We are on a journey and we are back and our bodies and things interact.”
Like last year in Seoul, Dodgers will play two exhibitions in Tokyo and their opening match with Chicago Cubs before returning home to play Angels In the highway chain. Smith said that following the number of games and which is not difficult.
“It should not be,” he said. It was not difficult last year. You are trying to win every ball game. “
The club’s workers fill the tractors heading to the Dodger Stadium, where the team prepared to break the camp in Ranch Camelback.
(Kevin Paxter / Los Angeles Times)
What is complicated is packing. So, Smith, who was forced to weave his way through rough bags and bags and cardboard boxes to reach his wardrobe at the club’s corner, depends on the club’s employees to tell him what packs him for Tokyo and what he sends to the house to Los Angeles
Smith said: “Our club are positives in that.” “They are doing a really good job.”
Speaking of really good job, Rocky Sasaki, who will start the second match of the Ashbar series in Japan, set this appearance on Tuesday with four closed roles against Cleveland Jersheers.
Sasaki was effective, where he threw 41 stadiums and gave up a blow only and two walking while hitting two, which expands a series of its roles without targets to seven. After going out, the right climb ended today with a short session in the bull.
He attracted his teammates 11 walking through three roles and 13 for the match to beat Guardians 10-4 and end from the Legue season No. 12-8.
“There were some things that did not go the way I wanted today. Sasaki said through an immediate translator:“ I went back to some bad habits. ”But for these to come out in a game before the opening day so that I can control it in time.
“I definitely feel better.”
Sasaki, 23, who spent the last four seasons with Chiba Lot Infantry in the Japanese League, said he supervised his first back in the league in Tokyo.
He said, “To be able to promote in Japan will be a special and unique opportunity,” he said. “It is clear that the ability to promote in major championships is something I have worked for a long time to be able to do it. I’m really excited.”
The evaders were not released on the list of 31 men for Japan on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier, the team announced that Dustin May would be the fifth player in the beginning, as he assembled the rotation with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Sasaki, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow. The competition for the final position between May and Tony Gonsulin, who were absent last season due to injuries.
Gonsolin, who was wounded in lifting weights, will start the season in the affected list.
Mayo, who will not take the trip to Japan, made three games in the spring, two of them without goals, hit six and given only three times in five roles.
