Pop quiz. What can convey collectively half of the Dodgers’ roster for a highway journey throughout a highway journey?
The reply? A textual content message from Jason Heyward.
Heyward, on the injured listing with decrease again tightness, nonetheless accompanied the Dodgers on their six-game highway journey that began in Chicago and resulted in Minneapolis. Earlier than the Dodgers performed the Cubs on March 5, Heyward requested his teammates if they’d be a part of him at his eponymous youth sports activities academy for a meet-and-greet with the native youngsters.
13 Dodgers heeded the decision: Freddie Freeman, Tyler Glasnow, Mookie Betts, Alex Vesia, James Paxton, James Outman, Chris Taylor, Miguel Rojas, Kiké Hernandez, Evan Phillips, Will Smith, Ryan Yarbrough and Daniel Hudson.
Maybe seeing Heyward fly midway throughout the nation was sufficient of a motivator for the opposite gamers to take a while out of their day.
“I’ve at all times been a fan of giving again by being an affect,” Heyward advised MLB Community. “All of us come from completely different walks of life, completely different households, completely different backgrounds, completely different international locations. Simply to present this again – give a spot to be a group, by means of sport, by means of schooling, and all of the issues they do on this facility, it’s superior to convey that by means of the west aspect of Chicago.”
Come for the lovable youngsters. Keep to observe one among them stump Betts when requested what number of hits he has in his profession.
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