Tim Neverett and Rick Monday will call 19 games on TV from Arizona. Stephen Nelson and Eric Karros will call the Freeway Series.
The Dodgers on Thursday announced their spring training broadcast schedule, which includes 22 of 23 games televised on Sports Net LA, 15 games on English-language radio and eight on Spanish-language radio.
Thursday, February 20 is the Dodgers’ first Cactus League game, hosting the Cubs at Camelback Ranch, the team they will also play for two games in Japan to open the regular season on March 18-19 at the Tokyo Dome.
Because of that overseas trip, the Dodgers’ camp in Arizona is truncated to just 20 games in 20 days. The only game that won’t be televised by SportsNet LA is Sunday, March 2 against the A’s in Mesa. That’s a split-squad day for the Dodgers, with two games at 12:05 p.m. PT. The game that day against the White Sox at Camelback Ranch will be televised by SportsNet LA.
AM 570 will simulcast 12 of the 19 SportsNet LA broadcasts of games in Arizona on radio.
Tim Neverett and Rick Monday will call the Cactus League games from Arizona, as they did last year.
Stephen Nelson will call play-by-play alongside Eric Karros on SportsNet LA for the three Freeway Series games against the Angels from March 23-25. AM 570 will have their own radio broadcast of those three games.
Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser will call the two games against the Cubs on March 18-19 on SportsNet LA. They will also be on the call for the two exhibition games in Tokyo, both on Saturday, March 15 Pacific Time — 3 a.m. PT against Yomiuri, and 8 p.m. PT against Hanshin.
KTNQ 1020 AM, with former Dodgers infielder Luis Cruz added to the Spanish-language broadcast team this year, will broadcast the first five games on radio from Arizona plus all three Freeway Series games.