After 32 exhibition games over the last five and a half weeks, things get real on Thursday for the Dodgers, who host the Arizona Diamondbacks on opening day at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n
Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts for the second straight opening day for the Dodgers<\/a>. He joins Sandy Koufax as the only Dodgers to throw the final pitch of a championship followed by the first pitch the next season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Zac Gallen starts for the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n Los Angeles stalwart Keith Williams Jr. will sing the national anthem on Thursday<\/a>, and Magic Johnson will throw the ceremonial first pitch. The opening ceremonies start at 4:45 p.m., and will include traditional opening day player introductions, plus the raising of the championship flag and 2025 World Series emblem at the stadium.<\/p>\n NBC will exclusively televise this game<\/a>, with streaming on Peacock. Clayton Kershaw, in his new role as television studio analyst for NBC<\/a>, will be on-site with Bob Costas for the NBC pregame show, which begins at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n Thursday game info<\/p>\n Teams: Dodgers vs. Diamondbacks<\/p>\n Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 32 exhibition games over the last five and a half weeks, things get real on Thursday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,2178,1147,53,38,2196,774,57,4,677,1406,15130,313,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-642356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-clayton-kershaw","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-diamondbacks","16":"tag-dodger-stadium","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-nbc","21":"tag-opening-day","22":"tag-sandy-koufax","23":"tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto","24":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116289266851420254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642356","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=642356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}