The Los Angeles Dodgers have an important series starting on March 20.
The Seoul Series will give Korean fans a special experience and help popularize baseball internationally, as the Dodgers will take on the San Diego Padres in the official start of the MLB regular season.
There will be two games in Seoul between the bitter NL West rivals, and the Dodgers have already set their rotation for them.
The team itself, via Twitter, made the announcement.
Here are your Game 1 and Game 2 starters for the Seoul Series. pic.twitter.com/2oxunLVD80
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) March 11, 2024
Two pitchers that weren’t on the roster last year will have the responsibility of holding the Padres’ quality offense in check: Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
The former was acquired in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and later extended to a long-term deal; while the latter signed a 12-year, $325 million contract in late December.
Glasnow, the Opening Day starter for LA, had a 3.53 ERA in 120 innings last year, with 162 strikeouts with the Rays.
Yamamoto, on the other hand, won Japan’s version of the Cy Young for the third consecutive year after posting a 1.21 ERA in 164 innings, with 169 punchouts.
The Dodgers rotation has the most talent it has shown in quite some time.
Healthy or injured, they have Bobby Miller, Walker Buehler, Emmet Sheehan, Gavin Stone, James Paxton, Michael Grove, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May, and others, in addition to Glasnow and Yamamoto.
Perhaps 2024 will be the year in which they can conquer the postseason demons that have affected their October performance since 2020, when they won the trophy for the last time.
Glasnow and Yamamoto will try to lead the way and put their team in a position to win both games in Asia.
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