{"id":650447,"date":"2026-03-29T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:08:19","slug":"its-time-for-dodger-baseball-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650447\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for Dodger baseball \u2026 in Ontario!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not be familiar with the Ontario Tower Buzzers. But if all goes to plan, you soon will.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers\u2019 new minor league team begins its inaugural season Thursday playing in a new stadium, ONT Field. (ONT is the code for Ontario International Airport).<\/p>\n

The Single-A team will throw its first pitch as the Dodgers begin what could be a historic season in Major League Baseball (can you say three-peat?!). History will already be made when the first fans go through the turnstile at the Ontario stadium on Opening Day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis has been a dream for a lot of people, for a better part of two decades, to bring a minor league baseball team here,\u201d said Tower Buzzers General Manager Allan Benavides.<\/p>\n

That name<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard enough to explain what a dodger is<\/a>, but what\u2019s a tower buzzer?<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously a straight nod to the movie Top Gun,\u201d Benavides said. In that 1986 film, Tom Cruise plays a reckless fighter pilot, nicknamed Maverick, who flies closer than allowed to the runway control tower.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The aviation theme is built into the stadium\u2019s design along with signage of Ontario Airport, the team\u2019s title sponsor. The mascot, appropriately, is Maverick, an aviation glasses-wearing giant bee (as in \u201cbuzzers\u201d), and uniforms hue to the Dodgers\u2019 style, with \u201cBuzzers\u201d proclaimed on jerseys.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

“Maverick” is the Ontario Tower Buzzers’ mascot.<\/p>\n

(<\/p>\n

Courtesy Ontario Tower Buzzers<\/p>\n

)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

ONT Field is in the new stadium for the Ontario Tower Buzzers. The stadium has an aviation theme. Its lead sponsor is Ontario Airport.<\/p>\n

(<\/p>\n

Courtesy Ontario Tower Buzzers<\/p>\n

)<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s on first?<\/p>\n

Most of Tower Buzzers\u2019 players are between 19 and 22 years old, out of high school and college, along with players from other countries. Keep an eye on the team\u2019s web site<\/a> as it announces the list of players who made it on the team roster.<\/p>\n

Tickets, $$$???<\/p>\n

Remember when Dodgers tickets felt affordable? Currently the cheapest tickets are selling for about $178 on MLB.com. Tickets for the Tower Buzzers\u2019 Opening Day start at just over $37.<\/p>\n

The Ontario Tower Buzzers are a Single-A team, the lowest rung in a minor league system with Triple-A teams at the top.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma City Comets is the Dodgers\u2019 triple-A minor league team, where the Dodgers\u2019 players closest to entering the major leagues play.<\/p>\n

Future stars<\/p>\n

And that means it’s possible to see a future hall of famer at a single-A game.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy little brother and I went to a Quakes game when Mike Trout was playing with the [Rancho Cucamonga] Quakes and we were there when he hit a grand slam to win a playoff game for them,\u201d said Jonathan Campos, president of the Ontario Mountain View Little League.<\/p>\n

The Tower Buzzers\u2019 inaugural season is a big deal for youth baseball in the region, Campos said, and his Little League in particular. His league\u2019s four fields are across the street from the Tower Buzzers\u2019 new stadium and that\u2019s generated a lot of interest among his players to have a night for his league at a Tower Buzzers\u2019 game this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may not be familiar with the Ontario Tower Buzzers. But if all goes to plan, you soon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,39,6522,7512,83301],"class_list":["post-650447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-minor-league","tag-ontario","tag-tower-buzzers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116312626396350298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650447","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=650447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}