The Dodgers spent the offseason constructing a juggernaut, and so they rapidly bulldozed by means of the Padres within the first inning on the opening day of spring coaching.
Los Angeles scored eight runs within the opening body as 11 batters got here to the plate.
Second baseman Mookie Betts started the inning with a stroll and scored on considered one of two ground-rule doubles.
First baseman Kevin Padlo capped the scoring with a two-run blast in his Dodgers debut.
With 54 profession MLB at-bats, Padlo was one of many much less heralded additions to L.A.’s roster this offseason. The Dodgers, coming off a 100-62 2023 common season, signed two-time AL MVP Shohei Ohtani and Japanese pitching ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto and traded for former Rays right-hander Tyler Glasnow.
These strikes made the Dodgers (+375) the favourite to win this 12 months’s World Sequence, per ESPN Wager. Whereas it is solely the opening day of spring coaching, they appear as scary as marketed.
