Dodgers second baseman Kiké Hernández offers a first-person account of what's its like to prepare for the season during the coronavirus outbreak.
When you get to the ballpark, you eat when they tell you. It’s based on when they can provide you food. If you don’t want to eat at that time, well, you need to figure it out.
It’s a little difficult because you arrive at the ballpark and everything is a little rushed. At least that’s how the exhibition games at home have been. We can’t enter the clubhouse until around 1:45, so we basically have a little less than two hours to do everything we need to do, prepare physically, get your treatment, do your routine, what you need to do to get your body ready.
After batting practice, we have around two more hours and it’s a little different. The only food available are sandwiches, potato chips and other snacks unless you ask for something a la carte. There isn’t a food room like before, so you eat at your locker.Everything is social distancing. I had the second locker in the corner, but because we have to go every other locker now, they moved me to the locker to the left. My old locker is empty.
In summer camp, before we started playing against other teams, we used the visitors’ locker room. Our locker room, in order to maintain proper social distancing, only had the 22 players with the most big league service time.and they left others here. The guys who looked like were going to make the team had small aluminum lockers in the middle of the room, winter ball style. They had the other half of those guys in the same lockers in the hallway outside.
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