The Dodgers defeat Team Japan in a spring training game.
The Dodgers defeated Team Japan, 3-2, Sunday in an exhibition game at Camelback Ranch.
ON THE MOUND : With Rich Hill throwing in a minor league game, the Dodgers handed the baseball to 23-year-old right-handed pitcher Trevor Oaks. Oaks held the Japanese to three hits in three scoreless innings. .. Manager Dave Roberts came away from the game raving about 22-year-old prospect Mitchell White, who was picked in the second round last June. White struck out three in two innings. “This was our first chance to see Mitchell White, and it’s real,” Roberts said. “He’s got a big arm, with sharpness on the secondary [pitches], mound composure. You’ve sometimes got to see it to believe it, but he lived up to to the billing.”
AT THE PLATE : O’Koyea Dickson won the game for the Dodgers with a walk-off, two-run double. Dickson, a 26-year-old outfielder, hit.328 for triple-A Oklahoma City with a .994 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in 2016. “I’ve just grown to really love this guy,” Roberts said.
