The Dodgers' east coast adventures ended Wednesday afternoon and they’re now again in Los Angeles. Normally, one imagines that the Dodgers are normally carried out heading again east for some time after a street journey that may have simply ended.
This concept could be utterly mistaken.
As mentioned final yr, the schedule is a bit sketchy this yr for causes which will make sense to the planner, however are utterly unknown to me.
The Dodgers' just-completed street journey had them heading to Cincinnati after which New York. After Thursday, the Dodgers will host the Colorado Rockies for 3 video games at Dodger Stadium of their first sport of the yr.
So, there might be one other one time off earlier than the Dodgers flip proper and head again east.
The Dodgers then go to the baseball mecca in any other case often called PNC Park, dwelling of the Pittsburgh Pirates, for 3 video games earlier than returning to New York to play the New York Yankees for 3 video games. The Dodgers' go to to the Bronx might be their first since 2016.
In an ideal world, the Dodgers would have performed the Pittsburgh collection over the Memorial Day vacation and performed back-to-back collection in New York as an alternative of flying east on alternate weeks. Alas, it was not meant to be.
The “quirks” of the “well-designed” calendar don't finish there.
After the Yankees streak concludes, the Dodgers have one other day to return dwelling. After taking part in the Texas Rangers and Kansas Metropolis Royals for consecutive three-game collection (no downside there), the Dodgers instantly journey to Denver and Coors Area for 4 video games.
However wait – there's extra!
The Dodgers instantly return to Dodger Stadium to play the Anaheim Angels for 2 video games on June twenty first and twenty second.
So what, after the one scheduled Sunday of the yr in MLB, the Dodgers go to Assured Fee Area to play the Chicago White Sox for 3 video games. So, the Dodgers have one other time off earlier than returning to Oracle Park for the final time this yr to play the San Francisco Giants for 3 video games.
At this level, the calendar will mercifully return to July as well being returns to the schedule after a time off. The Dodgers can have simply 4 extra collection within the Japanese time zone for the remainder of the season: proper earlier than the All-Star Break (Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers) and mid-September (Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins).
Satirically, True Blue LA is anticipated to offer not less than partial in-person protection for each street journeys.
If the Dodgers had been hoping to rack up frequent flyer miles this yr in america, their journeys in June would vastly help their efforts. For followers, nonetheless, it will likely be protected to say after this essay: we’ve all been warned.
Though it's too early to consider 2025, if I might make one want on the planet, it could be that the planners schedule the following collection with the Cleveland Guardians on the identical street journey because the annual go to to the Nice American Ballpark . to play the Cincinnati Reds. I'd wish to root for Pittsburgh in one in every of these collection, however I've realized that my hopes in that regard are most likely futile.
