{"id":584413,"date":"2026-02-21T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:35:13","slug":"dodgers-on-deck-saturday-february-21-at-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584413\/","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":584414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,146,5,5250,1165,446,3223,774,56,57,3224,3222,603,4,468,73072,74678,313],"class_list":["post-584413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-arizona","tag-baseball","tag-cactus-league","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-tempe","tag-tempe-diablo-stadium","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116107471988625197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}