{"id":258092,"date":"2026-04-08T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:07:08","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-legend-davey-lopes-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258092\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers legend Davey Lopes dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(Gray News) &#8211; Former Los Angeles Dodgers great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/davey-lopes-117912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/davey-lopes-117912\">Davey Lopes<\/a> has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dodgers\/status\/2041949445349077317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dodgers\/status\/2041949445349077317\">announced his death<\/a> on Wednesday while sending its support to Lopes\u2019 loved ones. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"FILE -- Los Angeles Dodgers coach Davey Lopes during the inning of a MLB baseball game in...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Z6M6FQKZ4VFLROLFDNKY57743I.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>FILE &#8212; Los Angeles Dodgers coach Davey Lopes during the inning of a MLB baseball game in Miami, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 against the Miami Marlins.(AP Photo\/J Pat Carter)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe Dodgers mourn the loss of Davey Lopes, who passed away today at age 80,\u201d the Dodgers shared in a social media post. \u201cLopes was a member of the team\u2019s record-setting infield of the 1970s and 1980s and one of the finest basestealers in MLB history. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to multiple reports, Lopes had been receiving treatment in his home state of Rhode Island at a hospital for Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lopes spent the majority of his 16-year career with the Dodgers and was a four-time All-Star second baseman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No immediate cause of death was released for the World Series champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Gray News) &#8211; Former Los Angeles Dodgers great Davey Lopes has died. The team announced his death on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[114017,114020,114018,114016,114024,114026,114027,114028,114021,114030,114029,114022,114023,114019,48,52,51,47,114015,50,49,114025],"class_list":{"0":"post-258092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-davey-lopes","9":"tag-davey-lopes-dead","10":"tag-davey-lopes-death","11":"tag-davey-lopes-dies","12":"tag-davey-lopes-dies-at-80","13":"tag-davey-lopes-dodgers","14":"tag-davey-lopes-dodgers-death","15":"tag-davey-lopes-dodgers-legend","16":"tag-did-davey-lopes-die","17":"tag-dodgers-legend-death","18":"tag-dodgers-legend-dies","19":"tag-how-did-davey-lopes-die","20":"tag-is-davey-lopes-alive","21":"tag-is-davey-lopes-dead","22":"tag-la","23":"tag-la-headlines","24":"tag-la-news","25":"tag-los-angeles","26":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers-legend-davey-lopes-dies","27":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","28":"tag-los-angeles-news","29":"tag-who-is-davey-lopes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}