Dodgers: It’s a new season but the Dodgers are still celebrating their 2024 World Series championship.Rapper Ice Cube rolled up to their dugout in a vintage blue convertible with the Commissioner’s Trophy in the front passenger seat. Magic Johnson carried the prize to home plate as the announced crowd of 53,595 roared Thursday before the Dodgers’ home opener against the Tigers. The Dodgers won 5-4, with Teoscar Hernández hitting a three-run homer and Shohei Ohtani adding a solo shot. “It’s always great here, especially in front of the fans,” Hernández said. Players and staff will receive their World Series rings prior to Friday’s game. Los Angeles began the season in Tokyo this month with a pair of wins over the Cubs. Thursday was all about honoring the Dodgers’ victory over the Yankees for the eighth World Series championship in franchise history and second since the pandemic-delayed 2020 season. “I thought the ceremony was fantastic,” manager Dave Roberts said. “The fans were really into it.” Kirk Gibson came out to throw the first pitch to World Series MVP Freddie Freeman. Earlier, Mark Walter, Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Todd Boehly and Johnson represented Dodgers ownership in hoisting a blue-and-white World Series flag in center field. In right field, a baseball with 2024 in blue lettering was unveiled by captains from the Los Angeles and Pasadena fire departments, joining the others marking the franchise’s World Series titles.

Mariners: Jorge Polanco and Randy Arozarena hit eighth-inning home runs and the Seattle Mariners rallied to beat the Athletics 4-2 on Thursday night. Polanco’s two-out, two-run home run to dead center field sealed the win after Arozarena tied it at 2-2 with a shot to left. The outburst came as Seattle celebrated new Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki, who threw out the first pitch. Tyler Soderstrom — one of three players under the age of 24 in the Athletics’ opening day starting lineup — hit two solo home runs in his team’s first game of the post-Oakland era.

Padres: Pinch-hitter Gavin Sheets’ tying homer kicked off the Padres’ four-run rally in the seventh inning, Jackson Merrill drove in four runs and San Diego beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4 Thursday on opening day. Fernando Tatís Jr. had three hits, while Luis Arraez and Manny Machado added seventh-inning RBIs in a rematch of last season’s wild-card playoff series won by the Padres.Ozzie Albies hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs for the Braves. Austin Riley also homered.Chris Sale yielded three runs and six hits over five innings for Atlanta, striking out seven in his sixth opening day start. Last year’s Cy Young Award and pitching triple crown winner couldn’t pitch against San Diego in the playoffs due to back spasms.Michael King couldn’t escape the third inning for the Padres, allowing three runs on four hits and four walks Jurickson Profar got a standing ovation before his leadoff single for Atlanta. Profar spent parts of the past five seasons with San Diego, and he had the best year of his career in 2024 with 24 homers and 85 RBIs before signing with Atlanta in January.

Tatís and Machado scored on a first-inning single by Merrill, last season’s NL Rookie of the Year.