Enjoying beneath a hot highlight is nothing new for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They’ll see Hollywood from Chavez Ravine, in spite of everything.
They’ve finally melted beneath the intense lights the previous couple of years, with early exits from the playoffs denying them an opportunity to win a World Sequence title for the reason that 2020 season.
Waiting for 2024, the Dodgers are able to embrace the strain as an alternative of crumbling beneath it.
Veteran outfielder Jason Heyward mentioned the crew is having enjoyable with the buildup and planning to benefit from the challenges that the season may carry.
“That is thrilling. It’s new. It’s distinctive. From the fan perspective, from a media perspective, it’s a whole lot of enjoyable, a whole lot of actually cool issues to soak up and see for the primary time and a whole lot of hypothesis, anticipation. This yr greater than ever. However on the participant aspect, we don’t take a look at it as a burden. On this clubhouse, we take a look at it as a chance we embrace to return to work day by day and have enjoyable with the challenges.”
Heyward isn’t a flashy star on this crew, like Shohei Ohtani or Mookie Betts or Freddie Freeman, however he has been a part of a win-now mentality crew determined for a championship.
In 2016, Heyward was a member of the Chicago Cubs, a crew enjoying beneath a dreaded century-long curse. He is aware of what it takes to win a World Sequence beneath a microscope. For the Dodgers, that’s what each recreation this season may really feel like.
Wins shall be anticipated and dropping streaks shall be examined. It’s inevitable. However, the whole lot shall be price it ultimately if the Dodgers win their first full-season World Sequence title since 1988.
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