Padres aren’t the only challenge for Dodgers in playing series in South Korea
A view of all the commotion as Shohei Ohtani and his Dodgers teammates arrive at Incheon Airport on Friday in Seoul. As Brandon McDaniel, the Dodgers’ vice president of player performance, walked through the team’s spring training clubhouse last week, he laughed when a reporter stopped him to ask about the season-opening trip to South Korea. Thus, Dodgers players were instructed to sleep little Wednesday night, when it was already Thursday afternoon in Seoul; get plenty of shuteye during the first half of Thursday’s flight, when it would be Thursday night in Seoul; and, hopefully, trick their internal clocks to be on South Korean time as soon as they landed. “Sweat, eat, stay awake until it’s time for bed,” McDaniel said. “We have a plan in place, we’re gonna take the right steps, and at the end of the day, we gotta go play two games,” McDaniel said.
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