The Los Angeles Dodgers will begin their season long Friday night postgame fireworks shows following Friday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium.
Fans will be invited onto to the field to watch the fireworks show, which will be set to music played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, whose second weekend begins today. The show will take place before 11 p.m. and is subject to cancellation if the game lasts too long.
The stars of the 2002 film “Super Troopers” — Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske — will be in character as they throw the ceremonial first pitch and announce the starting lineup.
The national anthem will be sung by Elliott Yamin, the third-place finisher in the 2006 season of “American Idol.”
Pregame entertainment will also include a stilt walker in the left field plaza and a DJ in the right field plaza, both from 5-7 p.m.
Mickey Hatcher, an outfielder-infielder on the Dodgers’ 1988 World Series championship team, will sign autographs in the left field pavilion plaza from 5-7 p.m.
The Military Heroes of the Game will be U.S. Army Sgt. Marco Garcia of San Fernando and Army Spc. Michael Rodriguez of Delano.
Garcia earned his Airborne Wings at Fort Benning and served in Iraq, Afghanistan and a humanitarian mission to Haiti. He is stationed at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.
Rodriguez served one year at Camp Humphrey in South Korea and a four- month deployment in Turkey. He is stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Auto gates will open at 4:30 p.m. and stadium gates at 5 p.m. Pregame ceremonies will begin at 6:55 p.m. for the 7:10 p.m. game.
—City News Service