It’s a new season but the Los Angeles 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.

After a pregame ceremony with plenty of Hollywood touches, the star-studded team extends its head start to 2025 by beating Detroit to improve to 3-0.

In the Dodgers' clubhouse, the team’s typical white jerseys were replaced with ceremonial championship threads; with names, numbers and the ‘Dodgers’ script colored in gold.

After their two-game sweep over the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo last week, the Dodgers play their first game of the season at home at 4 p.m. PDT (ESPN).

What to Know The Dodgers will send new starting pitcher Blake Snell to the mound in the team’s home opener. The Dodgers and Tigers play Thursday at 4:10 p.m. The team is billing the pre-game events as “a Hollywood show for the ages.

The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers technically introduced a new Major League Baseball season last week, when they played two contests against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo, Japan. (The Dodgers won both of those games,