(1-3) at Texas Rangers (1-1) Monday, February 26, 2018 – 1:05 p.m. MT | Surprise Stadium LHP Alex Wood (0-0, 0.00) vs. LHP Mike Minor (0-0, 0.00) Spring Game 5/Road Game 3 TV: None Radio: None

TEXAS TWO-STEP: The Dodgers this afternoon will do battle 2018 Dodger Schedule with the Rangers in Surprise and tomorrow, Texas will return the Date Opp. Time Rec. Winner Loser Attend. favor and visit the Ranch for a 1:05 p.m. start against the Boys in 2/23 CWS W, 13-5 1-0 Lee Danish 6,813 2/24 SF L, 3-9 1-1 Okert Bañuelos 13,141 Blue. The next two games are the only matchups between the two at KC L, 4-8 1-2 Smith Broussard 5,020 squads this spring, but Los Angeles will face the Rangers just once 2/25 at SEA L, 0-2 1-3 Nicasio Alexander 7,504 2/26 at TEX 1:05 PM during Cactus League play, but will play a “home-and-home” 2/27 TEX 1:05 PM with the AL West club on June 12-13 at and then 2/28 at SD 1:10 PM 3/1 CLE 1:05 PM Aug. 28-29 in Arlington. Los Angeles last visited Clayton 3/2 at CWS 1:05 PM Kershaw’s home base in 2015, the same year as Texas’s last visit 3/3 ARI 1:05 PM to Chavez Ravine. The Dodgers have 29 more exhibition games 3/4 at SF 1:10 PM 3/5 CLE 1:05 PM this spring; including 13 at on five Spring 3/6 at CHI 1:05 PM Training weekends and will head back to Los Angeles for a three- 3/7 at LAA 1:10 PM 3/8 at CLE 6:05 PM game Freeway Series against the Angels on March 25-27. 3/9 KC 1:05 PM Following the I-5 matchup, the Dodgers will open the 2018 season 3/10 CHI 7:05 PM on March 29 against the at Dodger Stadium. 3/11 at COL 1:10 PM 3/12 MIL 1:05 PM Yesterday, the Dodgers lost to the Mariners in Peoria, 2- 3/13 Off Day 3/14 COL 7:05 PM 0, collecting just two hits, both by non-roster Max 3/15 KC 1:05 PM Muncy. Muncy went 2-for-2 with two doubles and is 3/16 at ARI 1:10 PM 3/17 at CWS 1:05 PM now 4-for-6 with two doubles, a triple and an RBI 3/18 at MIL 1:05 PM during Cactus League play this spring. On the mound, SD 1:05 PM made his spring debut with a 3/19 OAK 7:05 PM 3/20 at OAK 1:05 PM scoreless frame and the club also received shutout work 3/21 Off Day from Tom Koehler (1.0), Pedro Baez (1.0), Mark 3/22 LAA 7:05 PM 3/23 at KC 1:05 PM Lowe (1.0) and Jason DeFratus (2.0). 3/24 CWS 12:05 PM

BRINGING THE WOOD: Dodger left-hander Alex Wood will 3/25 at LAA 6:07 PM 3/26 LAA 7:10 PM make his 2018 Cactus League debut this afternoon, coming off his 3/27 LAA 7:10 PM breakout 2017 campaign in which he went 16-3 with a 2.72 ERA NEW FACES AT THE RANCH: Today, the Dodgers in 27 games (25 starts) and was named to the NL All-Star team. welcomed Rocky Gale to the club. Gale was signed as a Wood has made some mechanical changes heading into this minor league free agent yesterday and has appeared in 14 big season and will exclusively pitch out of the stretch this year. In league games with the in 2015 (11) and 2017 five big league seasons, Wood has gone 43-33 with a 3.20 ERA (3). Last year, Gale belted his first Major League homer, going in 139 games (102 starts) with (2013-15) and Los Angeles deep off Robbie Ray on Sept. 20. Elsewhere, recent acquisition (2015-17). The Georgia native finished ninth in the National J.T. Chargois threw his first bullpen as a Dodger this morning. League Cy Young voting last year. A LOOK BACK: The Dodgers posted a 104-58 record in 2017, Two Dodgers looking for bounce-back campaigns will becoming team in NL West history to win the division in make their spring debuts today as Adam Liberatore five consecutive seasons. The team earned a berth and Yimi Garcia take the mound in Surprise. Liberatore after defeating the in the NLCS, 4 games to 1, and appeared in just four games last year after suffering a finished the season with their first NL Pennant since 1988.

groin strain and then forearm tightness. Garcia missed The Dodgers posted the seventh 100-win season in all of 2017 and most of 2016 after undergoing Tommy franchise history (third in Los Angeles history) and first John surgery. since 1974 (102-60). The Dodgers won 90+ games for NEED HIM IN A PINCH: The Dodgers would like to welcome the fifth consecutive season, a feat that had only longtime player and coach Manny Mota to Camelback Ranch. previously been accomplished once in franchise history, Mota, who turned 80 last week, will be in camp for a week as a 1951-56 (6). guest instructor. Mota played 13 seasons with the Dodgers (1969- Los Angeles finished with the best record in the Majors 80, ’82) and has served as a coach since 1980, making him the for the first time since 1974 and the ’s longest tenured coach in Los Angeles Dodgers’ history. The 1973 best record for the first time since 2009. The Dodgers set All-Star batted .304 in his 20-year big league career and a Los Angeles record for victories with 104 (104-58), participated in five World Series with the Dodgers as a player and tying for the second most in franchise history (also: coach. 1942, 104-50) and finishing one shy of the club record To recognize his 50th year in the organization, the of 105 (105-49), set in 1953.

Dodgers will honor Mota with his very own bobblehead The Dodgers topped the National League in ERA (3.38), on June 9 vs. the . Mota’s bobblehead is opponents’ batting average (.228, 1st MLB), the fourth in a series of 10, following Kirk Gibson (1,549), WHIP (1.15, 1st MLB) and shutouts (16). Los (March 30), (April 21) and Corey Angeles’ 3.39 starters’ ERA topped the Majors, while Seager (May 22). To purchase mini plans that will the 3.38 ERA by the club’s relievers led the NL (4th, ensure your attendance at these and the other MLB). bobblehead games, visit www.dodgers.com/tickets. The Dodgers established franchise records with 553 COLLEGE CLASSIC: The Dodger Stadium will extra-base hits (previous high: 541 in 1953), 312 doubles host the annual College Baseball Classic on Sunday, March 11, as (previous high: 307 in 2006) and 221 home runs (4th, three of college baseball’s top 15 ranked teams will take the field NL), which topped the club’s previous high of 211 set in at Chavez Ravine. Seventh-ranked Texas Christian University 2000. The club also set a Los Angeles record with a .437 will face 14th-ranked Vanderbilt at 10:30 a.m. followed by the slugging percentage, outpacing the previous high of .432 annual local matchup of UCLA (#11) vs. USC at 3:00p.m. Tickets set in 2006. begin at just $10 for both matchups (student tickets are $5) and can be purchased at Dodgers.com/classic.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE Date/Time (Local) Opp. Location Probables TV/RADIO Feb. 27/1:05 pm TEX Camelback Ranch RHP Jesse Chavez vs. RHP Kenta Maeda None CLUBHOUSE OPEN TOMORROW MORNING: 8:15 a.m.-9:15 a.m. TEAM MEETING: 9:15-10:00 am

TODAY’S PITCHING PROBABLES Right-hander Yimi Garcia will make his first Spring Training appearance and returns after recovering from Tommy John surgery, which made him miss the entire 2017 season. In 76 career big league games (one start), he has gone 3-5 with one save and a 3.12 ERA (26 ER/75.0 IP), while striking out 81 batters against just 12 walks. He has held the opposition to a .215 average, including a .189 mark against lefties. Lefty reliever Adam Liberatore will also make his first appearance of the spring, after appearing in just four games for Los Angeles in 2017 in an injury-laden season. In 3.1 innings of relief last year, he posted a 2.70 ERA and held hitters to a .231 average, while striking out five batters against two walks. The 30-year-old southpaw is entering his fourth big league season with the Dodgers and has gone 4-4 with a 3.69 career ERA over 101 Major League games. Right-handed Daniel Corcino will appear in his second outing in Cactus League play, after allowing one hit and issuing two walks in 0.2 innings of relief in the Spring Training opener on Friday against the White Sox. Corcino enters his 11th professional season and returns to the Dodger organization for his third stint after pitching for the clubs’ minor league squads from 2015-17. Southpaw reliever Brian Moran will make his second appearance of the spring after tossing a perfect inning of relief with two strikeouts on Friday against the White Sox. Moran enters his eighth professional season and his second with the Dodger organization after spending parts of 2017 with -A Tulsa, going 0-1 with one save and a 1.89 ERA (4 ER/19.0 IP) in 19 relief appearances. Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte will appear in his second outing of the spring after tossing 1.2 perfect innings of relief with two strikeouts on Friday against Chicago-AL. Venditte enters his first season with the Dodgers after spending 2017 with the Phillies’ Triple-A Lehigh Valley, going 9-5 with two saves and posting a 3.36 ERA (26 ER/69.2 IP) in 52 relief appearances. Edward Paredes made his first appearances of Cactus League play on Friday against the White Sox, tossing an immaculate inning, as he struck out the side on nine pitches. The 31-year-old lefty reliever enters his 10th professional season and his first big league camp with the Dodgers after making his big league debut last season with the club. Over two stints with Los Angeles in 2017, he went 1-0 with a 3.24 ERA (3 ER/8.1 IP) and struck out 11 batters without issuing a walk in 10 relief appearances.

SPRING TRAINING TRANSACTIONS Feb. 17 Signed INF Chase Utley to a two-year contract Feb. 23 Claimed J.T. Chargois off waivers from Minnesota Twins; placed LHP on the 60-day disabled list Feb. 26 Signed C Rocky Gale to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training

BREAKDOWN

Starts by Batting Order: Starts by Position: Innings by Position: 1st: Taylor (2), Utley (2) C: Grandal (2), Farmer (1), Smith (1) C: Grandal (9), Ramos (5), Farmer (6), Ruiz (3), 2nd: Seager (2), Pederson (1), Forsythe (1) 1B: Bellinger (2), Beaty (1), Muncy (1) Smith (8), Zarraga (4) 3rd: Turner (2), Bellinger (1), Barnes (1) 2B: Forsythe (2), Utley (2) 1B: Bellinger (10), Locastro (4), Rios (6), Beaty 4th: Bellinger (1), Puig (1), Hernandez (1), 3B: Turner (2), Muncy (1), Jackson (1) (6), Darvill (3), Muncy (6) Kemp (1) SS: Hernández (2), Solano (2) 2B: Forsythe (9), Muncy (4), Utley (9), Peter 5th: Kemp (1), Ramos (1), Toles (1), LF: Kemp (2), Verdugo (1), Toles (1) (8), Estevez (5) Grandal (1) CF: Taylor (2), Pederson (2) 3B: Turner (9), Verdugo (5), Muncy (6), 6th: Grandal (1), Verdugo (1), Thompson (1) RF: Thompson (2), Puig (1), Toles (1) Montgomery (2), Jackson (6), Ahmed (3), Pederson (1) DH: Seager (2), Ramos (1), Barnes (1) Beaty (2) 7th: Forsythe (1), Farmer (1), Jackson (1), SS: Hernández (9), Peters (4), Solano (11), Toles (1) Mora (3), Robinson (5), Jackson (3) 8th: Hernández (1), Muncy (2), Smith (1) LF: Kemp (9), Farmer (5), Locastro (7), 9th: Thompson (1), Solano (2), Beaty (1) Verdugo (6), Toles (5), Taijeron (4) CF:Taylor (8), Peter (5), Pederson (11), Peters (4), Diaz (5), Ramos (2) RF: Thompson (10), Solano (4), Puig (5), Verdugo (2), McKinstry (1), Montgomery (1), Landon (4), Toles (6), Diaz (2) DH: Ramos (6), Mieses (3), Barnes (9), Seager (7), Taijeron (2)

RECORD: 1-3-0 ATTENDANCE: --- DAY: 1-3-0 NIGHT: 0-0-0 HOME: 19,954 AVERAGE: 9,977 (2 G) HOME: 1-1-0 ROAD: 0-2-0 ROAD: 12,524 AVERAGE: 6,262 (2 G) VS. NL: 0-1-0 VS. AL: 1-2-0 TOTAL: 32,478 AVERAGE: 8,119

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