{"id":481397,"date":"2026-02-21T06:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481397\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:41:07","slug":"dodgers-on-deck-saturday-february-21-at-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481397\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers on Deck: Saturday, February 21 at Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The first game of the spring for the Dodgers is finally here on Saturday afternoon, with a bus ride to Tempe to face the Angels at Diablo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets the start for the Cactus League lid-lifter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/author\/bill-plunkett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hat tip to Bill Plunkett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hat tip to Bill Plunkett<\/a>), making what will be his only start before leaving next week to join Japan for the World Baseball Classic. Shohei Ohtani will start at designated hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/los-angeles-dodgers-news-notes\/109988\/shohei-ohtani-yoshinobu-yamamoto-dodgers-spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in his earliest game action in spring since joining the Dodgers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in his earliest game action in spring since joining the Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jos\u00e9 Soriano will start on the mound for the Angels, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/02\/20\/angels-owner-arte-moreno-tv-ordeal-hasnt-been-easy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register<\/a> \u201cwill have almost their entire projected everyday lineup when they face the Dodgers in the first Cactus League exhibition game on Saturday,\u201d though Mike Trout is not expected to start.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday game info<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ballpark: Tempe Diablo Stadium<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Radio: AM 570 (simulcast), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first game of the spring for the Dodgers is finally here on Saturday afternoon, with a bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1017,208941,2322,2323,105614,363,3956,99,31165,215796,8963],"class_list":{"0":"post-481397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-cactus-league","10":"tag-los-angeles-angels","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-mike-trout","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-shohei-ohtani","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tempe","17":"tag-tempe-diablo-stadium","18":"tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}