{"id":661193,"date":"2026-04-03T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:35:23","slug":"alex-call-will-make-2026-season-debut-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661193\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Call Will Make 2026 Season Debut Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014The Los Angeles Dodgers are approaching their sixth game of the season today, and the team has yet to incorporate bench option <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/callal02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dodgersbeat.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-03_br\">Alex Call<\/a> in any games.<\/p>\n<p>Cracking the Dodgers\u2019 starting nine is a tough task; however, an even more challenging issue is managing this star-studded roster, which 11-year skipper <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=roberda07,roberda05,roberda03,roberda06&amp;search=Dave+Roberts&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dodgersbeat.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-03_br\">Dave Roberts<\/a> has had to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>During Roberts\u2019 per-game media scrum,<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhZOfTj9HCI&amp;t=50s\"> I asked when we could expect Alex Call<\/a> to make his 2026 season debut, or even start a game for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to start Alex on Sunday. And I haven\u2019t decided on tomorrow. But he\u2019ll start on Sunday for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s only six games in the early part of the season, Call is the lone Dodger not to get any game action this season, but with the lefty <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grifffo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dodgersbeat.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-03_br\">Foster Griffin<\/a> on the mound, it makes sense the right-handed hitter would get an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the season, Call\u2019s role with the club seemed uncertain, especially after he was slow-played to start Cactus League play.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Call has served his purpose as a bench option and left-handed defensive replacement for the Dodgers since they acquired him at last year\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>In his Dodger career, Call has hit .247 but took arguably the most pivotal walk in Game Four of the 2025 National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies<\/p>\n<p>More Dodgers Coverage:<\/p>\n<p>Have you subscribed to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BleedLosPodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bleed Los Podcast YouTube channel<\/a>? Be sure to ring the notification bell to watch player interviews, participate in shows &amp; promotions, and stay up to date on all Dodgers news and rumors!<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014The Los Angeles Dodgers are approaching their sixth game of the season today, and the team has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-661193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesdodgers","17":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341986258180101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661193","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=661193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}