SAN DIEGO —
The final time a baseball sport was performed at Dodger Stadium, the night descended into insanity.
Gamers chirping at each other, nice. Followers cheering their group’s gamers and jeering the opposite group’s gamers, nice. Followers tossing baseballs and drinks at opposing gamers on the sector, not nice.
On Friday, the playoffs return to Dodger Stadium, with the season on the road for the Dodgers and the visiting San Diego Padres.
The Dodgers want to remind you that the very last thing they want is for their very own followers, even a handful of them, to interact in habits so silly that it stirs up the Padres or, worse, endangers somebody.
“Support us,” outfielder Teoscar Hernández mentioned. “We don’t need any trouble.”
On Sunday, in Sport 2 of this Nationwide League division collection, play was halted for roughly 12 minutes.
“I hope we don’t have any delays like we did,” pitcher Clayton Kershaw mentioned, “but we still want the energy, we want the atmosphere.”
In Sport 2, when Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar was the goal of flying objects, the umpires wouldn’t resume play till what crew chief Dan Bellino termed “enhanced security” arrived in left discipline. Then, when Padres proper fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. was the item of flying objects, the umpires wouldn’t resume play till safety reinforcements arrived in proper discipline.
Comparable reinforcements are anticipated to be stationed in these areas Friday. The Dodgers declined to remark, saying they don’t talk about safety planning.
At the least one of many Padres was so involved a few repeat of Sunday’s shenanigans that he advised the Dodgers not be allowed to host a Sport 5 within the curiosity of security.
“If I was the commissioner of baseball,” Padres reliever Jemeriah Estrada instructed USA As we speak on Monday, “I wouldn’t even allow a Game 5 at their place.”
The precise commissioner didn’t contemplate shifting the sport. The commissioner additionally didn’t sanction the Padres’ Manny Machado for one more incident in Sport 2: throwing a baseball within the path of Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts, which Roberts known as “unsettling.” Machado mentioned he was throwing an out-of-play ball to the ball boys within the dugout.
Sunday’s sport was delayed within the seventh inning, with the Padres main, 4-1. The Padres then poured throughout six runs within the ultimate two innings, hitting 4 house runs.
“Yeah,” Tatis mentioned with a smile after the sport, “maybe it fired us up.”
The eyes of the baseball world might be on Dodger Stadium on Friday. No different main league video games might be performed that day. No higher present than a winner-take-all sport.
“Any time you get a winner-take-all game,” Kershaw mentioned, “regardless of whether it’s division series or World Series or anything in between, it’s exciting. As a teammate and spectator for this one, it will be a lot of fun to watch.”
Mentioned Hernández: “It’s going to be fun. Hopefully, we can play a clean game. Not the way the last time was.”
What would infielder Max Muncy say to Dodgers followers?
“Bring the energy,” Muncy mentioned. “That’s all I’m going to say. Bring the energy, but be smart about it.
“We expect it to be a live atmosphere. All four games so far this series have been an extremely live atmosphere. Both at home and here, it’s more than what we’ve seen in years past. It’s been fun.”
The Dodgers’ social media group hyped this collection with this: “They say what they say because they aren’t from here. They Not Like Us.”
The Padres responded earlier than the primary sport at Petco Park with this: “WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM. WE ARE LOUDER.”
Sport 5 at Dodger Stadium needs to be louder nonetheless. The Padres ought to come ready.
“I think they’ll get booed,” Kershaw mentioned, “and I think they’ll probably enjoy it.”
