Asian American followers prepared for Dodgers baseball – NBC Los Angeles

Main League Baseball is again, and Dodger followers can hardly wait to see the 2024 World Collection Champions play once more. 

This season, it’s very true for Southern California’s Asian American group. 

Diana Iketani, a lifelong Dodger fan, bought up at 3 a.m. to look at the Dodgers’ two-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs on the Tokyo Dome March 18 and 19. 

“It is so thrilling to see groups with main Japanese gamers and foreign-born gamers which might be on the market competing and being Japanese American,” Iketani mentioned. 

Asian American followers say Shohei Ohtani does for them what the late Dodger star Fernando Valenzuela did for Latino followers. 

“I am half Filipino, and I take delight in my heritage,” mentioned Luca Samson, a 12-year-old fan. “I went to this Filipino Dodger sport, and so they gave us these cool jerseys.”

Other than Ohtani, supervisor Dave Roberts and pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki had been born in Japan.

Whereas Tommy Edman is half Korean, infielder Hyesong Kim from South Korea is making his MLB debut this 12 months. 

“It’s tremendous cool to see Asian folks going into the league and turning into the most effective,” Samson continued.