Los Yankees se han empeñado en volver a las Series Mundiales y no escatimarán en recursos, como los bates torpedo. Pero en la costa Oeste ha emergido un enemigo realmente extraordinario, monstruoso. L.A. Dodgers, campeón en 2024, ha iniciado la temporada a lo grande, con ocho victorias en otros tantos partidos, para firmar el mejor arranque de siempre en la MLB para la franquicia que defiende el anillo.
Shohei Ohtani festeja con sus compañeros tras batear el homerun de oro ante los Braves.
Los Dodgers ganaron 6-5 a los Braves con un walk-off, un homerun que cierra el partido, de Shohei Ohtani, la súper estrella del béisbol profesional. Después de un inicio de partido desconcertante en el que Atlanta dominaba 0-5 ante la atónita mirada de 50.000 fans que casi llenaban el Dodger Stadium, el equipo de Dave Roberts se las apañó para remontar hasta lograr un triunfo histórico. “Estaba un poco sorprendido. Me quedé atónito con la forma en que jugábamos al principio. No reconocí a ese equipo en las primeras entradas. Y luego encontramos la manera de ganar ese partido”, dijo el mánager.
Los Dodgers hicieron historia. Porque sólo un campeón había iniciado la temporada venciendo en los siete primeros partidos. Fueron los Yankees, en 1933, cuando todavía competían las leyendas Babe Ruth y Lou Gehrig. El primero (el mejor deportista del siglo XX para Associated Press) era un jugador crepuscular, que ya había dejado sus mejores años en el béisbol profesional. Abandonaría el equipo del Bronx al año siguiente. Gehrig, seis veces campeón y dos veces MVP, estaba en todo su apogeo, antes de que en 1939 le fuera diagnosticado el ELA, que entonces, dada su gran fama, se bautizó como el Mal de Gehrig. Moriría dos años después. Aquel equipo de los Yankees perdió en Washington, en el octavo partido en el inicio de la campaña 33-34. Los Dodgers no.
El bobblehead de Ohtani que repartieron los Dodgers antes del partido.
Fue un día señalado en Los Ángeles. Porque miles de aficionados de los Dodgers hicieron cola antes del inicio del partido para recoger el regalo que tenían por haber comprado una entrada para el partido ante los Braves. Se trataba de un boblehead de Ohtani con su premio de MVP de la temporada 2024. El genio japonés celebró con un grand slam. “Cuando tienen que pasar cosas importantes aparece”, dijo Roberts. “Simplemente, quería hacer algo grande”, dijo el bateador con su habitual simpleza. En este inicio de temporada en la MLB, los Padres también marchan invictos. El equipo de San Diego presenta un 7-0 en el inicio. Es la quinta vez en la historia que pasa con dos equipos, aunque los focos fueron para los Dodgers.
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