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LA Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages
Available now for pre-order. Relive the remarkable 2024 season. I hear the author is pretty good.
Bill Plunkett
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Bill Plunkett
@billplunkettocr
Dodgers beat writer, Orange County Register/Southern California Newspaper Group
Joined October 2010
- TV guy asked #Dodgers Mookie Betts: "When you go to sleep tonight who will you be thinking about -- Freddie? Shohei? " Mookie: "I'm probably not going to think about another man while I'm in bed."
- #Dodgers Mookie Betts on leaving team: “My stepdad passed. I needed to go home, be with my mom. It’s somebody who’s been in my life from fourth grade until now. So that was tough for me and the fam. I just needed to be there for my mom, my brothers and sisters.”
- #Dodgers Andrew Friedman said Shohei Ohtani told him during celebration “”Let’s do this 9 more times.” … He gets one in his first year so he thinks this is easy.”
- #Dodgers Daniel Hudson announces his retirement: “This was the only reason I came back — to go out on top. And that’s what’s happening.”
- Max Scherzer was asked if #Dodgers are upset about being in wild-card game: “No. You have to win your division. We didn’t win our division. We’re in the wild-card game. There’s no crying in baseball.”
- #Dodgers Trevor Bauer on Fernando Tatis Jr.'s one-eyed salute to his dugout/bat flip after HRs: "I'm all for it. I think it's important for the game to move in that direction instead of throwing at guys for showing emotion."
- Albert Pujols said he's not worried about getting the 700-HR ball back: "Souvenirs are for the fans. I don’t have any problem if they want to keep it. If they want to give it back, that’s great. But at the end of the day, I don’t focus on material stuff."
- 89-year-old Sandy Koufax was here for Game 3, stayed for all 18 innings, met Will Klein at his locker in #Dodgers clubhouse to congratulate him after the game -- and is back at the stadium for Game 4 tonight. Now, that's a legend
- #Dodgers Will Klein said last time he threw 70 pitches in a game was probably as a junior in college when he was still a starter. “Who else is going to come save me? I had to dig deep.”
- #Dodgers Mookie Betts was asked about Justin Turner being on field for photos: "He's part of the team. Forget all that. He's part of the team. We're not excluding him from anything."
