Dodgers - Padres live online: stats, scores and updates | Seoul Series 2024 updates

Hyun-Jin Ryu

"This is a very meaningful day here in Korea."

LINEUPS

The Home Team
Dodgers Batting Order
1. Mookie Betts (R) SS
2. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
3. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
4. Will Smith (R) C
5. Max Muncy (L) 3B
6. Teoscar Hernández (R) LF
7. James Outman (L) CF
8. Jason Heyward (L) RF
9. Gavin Lux (L) 2B

Manager Dave Roberts
Pitching coach Mark Prior

The Visitors
Padres Batting Order
1. Xander Bogaerts (R) 2B
2. Fernando Tatis Jr. (R) RF
3. Jake Cronenworth (L) 1B
4. Manny Machado (R) DH
5. Ha-Seong Kim (R) SS
6. Jurickson Profar (S) LF
7. Luis Campusano (R) C
8. Tyler Wade (L) 3B
9. Jackson Merrill (L) CF

Manager Mike Shildt
Pitching coach Ruben Niebla

STARTING PITCHERS CAREER STATS

LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Tyler Glasnow (RHP)
30 - 27
3.89 ERA
678 K
529.2 IP
1.21 WHIP

SAN DIEGO PADRES
Yu Darvish (RHP)
103 - 85
3.59 ERA
1929 K
1624.1 IP
1.14 WHIP

PITCHING

It will be a series of new acquisitions as Tyler Glasnow gets the nod today for the Dodgers, with exciting Japanese signing Yoshinobu Yamamoto slated to start tomorrow. Los Angeles picked up Glasnow from Tampa Bay in a December trade and today will mark his second career Opening Day start.

The Padres will turn to Old Faithful Yu Darvish for the fourth time on Opening Day, tapping Joe Musgrove for Game 2 tomorrow. Darvish is coming off a 2023 season that saw him struggle with injury, ending in August, when a stress reaction in his right elbow shut him down. Doctors cleared him for a full offseason program back in November and Darvish has been sharp all spring.

WELCOME!!!

Welcome to the Diario AS USA live commentary of the 2024 Seoul Series as MLB’s Opening Day kicks off in Korea with the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the San Diego Padres from the Gocheok Sky Dome.

For the ninth time ever, the MLB will start their season abroad. This is their first foray into Korea, however, building on the wild success of last year’s World Baseball Classic, and of course Ohtani Mania.

Add to that the runaway success of the Caribbean Series in Miami last month, which provided confirmation, if confirmation was needed, that there is an enormous appetite for top-tier baseball outside of the continental United States.

Long have we dubbed our championship final The World Series, and have justified that by pointing out that the two leagues in the United States are the best leagues, hoovering up all the best players, in the world. And while that is undeniably true, it is time that we let the rest of the world see that baseball in action.

Today, the Dodgers will be the nominal home team, a situation that will reverse tomorrow for Game 2. Interest has been intense in Korea, with fans from all over the Far East flocking to see their own heroes on the biggest stage.

Kim Ha-seong will be the first Korean to play an MLB Game in his home country, while fellow Korean, the great Chan Ho Park, will throw out the first pitch. Park is retired but had a stellar MLB career pitching for the Dodgers, Rangers, Padres, Mets, and Yankees. The first Korean-born MLB player, Park finished his career as the winningest Asian pitcher in MLB History with a 4.36 ERA and 1715 in 1993.0 innings pitched.

Japanese stars Yu Darvish, Yoshinbu Yamamoto, and of course Shohei Ohtani are driving baseball fever in Seoul with crowds mobbing the players everywhere they go. The unveiling of Ohtani’s wife, Japanese basketball star Mamiko Tanaka, on this trip has added fuel to the fire. “It’s been crazy,” said Dodgers outfielder James Outman. “I’m telling you, he’s like Elvis. Everyone screams just getting a glimpse of him.”

With Ohtani and Darvish the two major attractions, it is interesting to note that these two Japanese superstars have never before faced each other in an MLB game, a situation that will end in the bottom of the first inning today.

Another interesting side note is that Xander Bogaerts will be leading off for the Padres today and he is the only player in baseball History to have hit a home run in four different countries. He has hit shots in the US and Canada during normal season play, as well as hitting one in London back in 2019 when he played there with the Red Sox, as well as in Mexico City last year with the Padres. Could he extend that historical record to include South Korea?