Ice Cube is at Dodger Stadium for the festivities, and Dave Roberts is having a time
Ice Cube is back at Dodger Stadium to keep a sold-out crowd entertained, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sure is having fun with it.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have some celebrating to do.
This week’s World Series win was their second in the last five seasons, but after the World Series in the COVID-shortened 2020 season, there was no formal celebration. So you could say they’re more than ready to make up for lost time.
Our guys are very ready, very hungry for a parade,” manager Dave Roberts said after they won Game 3, via NBC4, which gave them a 3-0 series lead. “So nothing is going to get in the way of that, nothing.”
Friday’s celebrations will begin with a parade through downtown Los Angeles, starting at Gloria Molina Grand Park in front of City Hall. Mayor Karen Bass will kick things off, and the Dodgers will ride through the city for about 45 minutes. Then, the team will host a special ticketed celebration at Dodger Stadium.
Date: Friday, Nov. 1
Time: 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
TV Channel: MLB Network and Los Angeles area channels, including Spectrum SportsNet LA, CBS 2, NBC 4, KTLA 5, ABC 7, KCAL 9 and Fox 11
Streaming: Fubo, Sling, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV, and more
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Ice Cube is back at Dodger Stadium to keep a sold-out crowd entertained, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sure is having fun with it.
Shohei Ohtani has brought a noted Los Angeles celebrity along for the parade: his dog, Decoy.
“It’s incredible, I’ve never seen so many people in my life,” Kershaw said in an interview with Sportsnet. Both Kershaw and the reporter had to yell to be heard over the crowd of Dodgers fans.
The Dodgers are celebrating more than one occasion today, paying tribute to Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela on what would have been his 64th birthday. Valenzuela, a pitcher and former face of the franchise, died on Oct. 22 at age 63.
Fans along the parade route took the time to sing “Happy Birthday” in Valenzuela’s honor.
In true LA fashion, the Dodgers’ buses are stuck in traffic, delaying the start of the championship parade.
This isn’t the first celebration in Los Angeles: After the Dodgers’ Game 5 win in New York, fans partied in the streets, with the celebrations getting a little out of hand. More than 70 people were arrested after an unruly crowd of people set fires, vandalized stores and set off fireworks.
Friday’s parade is expected to be more controlled, but still lively.
