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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
Five years ago, America was listening. That was the year in which George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police officers. That was also the year in which the Dodgers refused to take the field for a late August game to protest racial injustice in the wake of a police shooting of a 29-year-old Black man in Wisconsin. The summer of racial reckoning, and the Dodgers’ modest role in it, feels like something from the distant past.
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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
The possibility of Yamamoto doing that has felt increasingly real every time he has stepped on the mound this season, reaching the point in the Dodgers’ 3-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night to where the previously-reticent right-hander readily embraced it. “I’ve heard no Japanese pitcher has won it yet, so I’m awfully interested in it,” Yamamoto said in Japanese.
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2 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
The feelings Luka Doncic kept private during the past two months started pouring out. Moved to tears by a two-minute montage that played on the video scoreboard at American Airlines Center on Wednesday night, Doncic later recalled thinking, “There’s no way I’m playing this game.”Doncic wiped his eyes with a towel, walked by a gauntlet of high-fiving reserves and joined the Lakers’ other starters on the floor.
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2 weeks ago | 
sacbee.com | Dylan Hernández
Cuando llegó el momento de mostrar al mundo lo que eran, les sirvieron una bola rápida por encima del centro del plato. Y los Dodgers fallaron. Estúpido de mí, el pensar que ya habían superado su afición a arruinar las cosas cuando ganaron la Serie Mundial la temporada pasada.
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2 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
No espero que los atletas o entrenadores estén informados sobre nada fuera de sus campos de trabajo. No espero que entiendan cómo las políticas de un presidente pueden afectar a la gente común. Lo que sí espero es que los principales responsables de la toma de decisiones de una organización vean el panorama general y que individuos como Kasten asuman la responsabilidad de hacer lo correcto por el legado de los Dodgers, les guste o no a sus jugadores». Kasten no estuvo de acuerdo.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
When their moment came to show the world what they were about, they were served a fastball over the middle of the plate. Stupid me, thinking they’d overcome their penchant for choking when they won the World Series last season. The Dodgers have accepted an invitation from President Trump to visit the White House on April 7, the franchise of Jackie Robinson bending the knee to hateful forces similar to the ones they challenged when breaking their sport’s color barrier. How pathetic. How spineless.
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3 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
Roki Sasaki chose right when he signed with the Dodgers. Never mind not being ready to lead the rotation of another team and challenge Shohei Ohtani. The 23-year-old Sasaki doesn’t look ready to pitch in the major leagues. Sasaki made his second start for the Dodgers on Saturday night, and it was somehow worse than his first.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
Toda la semana fue una preparación para esto. No importa si la pelota golpeada por Shohei Ohtani habría sobrepasado el muro del jardín derecho del Tokyo Dome si algunos aficionados no se hubieran asomado a la barandilla. En el béisbol, los resultados se marcan en términos absolutos, y el registro oficial mostrará para siempre que Ohtani anotó un cuadrangular en la quinta entrada de la victoria de los Dodgers por 6-3 sobre los Cachorros de Chicago el miércoles por la noche.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Dylan Hernández |Dylan Hernandez
The entire week was a buildup to this. Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn’t reached over the railing is immaterial. In baseball, results are marked in absolute terms, and the official record will forever show that Ohtani homered in the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ season-opening, two-game series finale against the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. Which is how it had to be.
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1 month ago | 
sacbee.com | Dylan Hernández
TOKYO - The entire week was a buildup to this. Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn't reached over the railing is immaterial. In baseball, results are marked in absolute terms, and the official record will forever show that Ohtani homered in the fifth inning of the Dodgers' 6-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. "I'm relieved that one got out somehow," Ohtani said in Japanese. Because Ohtani knew.
