While Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and the rest of the new-look Los Angeles Dodgers have received warm welcomes in South Korea for the team’s season-opening series, manager Dave Roberts’ reception was more, well, scrambled.
The 2020 World Series-winning manager, who’s entering his ninth season with the club, had an egg thrown at him as the team was welcomed by Korean fans at the airport in Seoul on Friday, according to Jeeho Yoo, who works as the English sports writer for the Yonhap News Agency.
“I left the scene early but some idiot threw an egg in the direction of #Dodgers manager Dave Roberts as he walked toward an exit at the airport here,” Yoo said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There are some witnesses.”
Yoo also said police and airport authorities were investigating.
X user Jonas12 posted a clip from Korean TV station SBS News of an egg flying through the air, landing just in front of Roberts’ feet.
Roberts hadn’t commented publicly on the situation as of Saturday.
The Dodgers open the season on March 20 and 21 with a two-game set against the San Diego Padres. The games, taking place just after 3 a.m. PST each day, will be Major League Baseball’s first-ever regular season games in South Korea.