Dodgers’ Tyler Glasnow to Start on Opening Day
The suspense is over.
Tyler Glasnow will become the Dodgers’ sixth Opening Day starter in the last six years when the team begins its regular season March 20 in Seoul, South Korea, against the San Diego Padres.
Manage Dave Roberts had already narrowed his choices for the Opening Day assignment down to two. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will pitch Game 2 in Seoul on March 21. Both teams made their starting pitchers for the two-game series official Monday.
Glasnow, 30, went 10-7 with a 3.53 ERA in 21 starts for the Tampa Bay Rays last year. He was acquired by the Dodgers in a December trade that sent Ryan Pepiot and outfielder Jonny DeLuca to Tampa Bay.
Glasnow signed a five-year contract extension worth $136.6 million on Dec. 16, paving the way for the right-hander to make many more Opening Day starts in the future.
Clayton Kershaw took the ball on Opening Day for the Dodgers every year from 2011-18. Only injuries and a global pandemic kept him from extending the streak further. Hyun-Jin Ryu (2019), Dustin May (2020), Kershaw (2021), Walker Buehler (2022) and Julio Urías (2023) have started every Opening Day for the Dodgers since.
Glasnow started on Opening Day for the Rays in 2021, the only prior Opening Day assignment of his career.
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