Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and I'm glad I survived the Thanos purge.
We all should have seen the signs. The baseball deities, trying to make up for almost everything going the Dodgers' way last season, have tipped the scales the other way this season.
—About 30 Dodgers come down with the flu in spring training, causing some of the regulars to miss games they would use to get ready.
—Justin Turner, the cornerstone of the offense, gets his wrist broken by a pitch in one of the last spring training games.