LOS ANGELES — A crowd gathered between Sections 308 and 310 in the right-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium. Anticipation hummed. It was 6:19 p.m. last Tuesday and the show was about to start.
Not the show with Mookie Betts and Justin Turner and Freddie Freeman. The one with the eight-piece mariachi — seven men and a woman — wearing white charros with Dodger blue moños, or bow ties, for a dash of color that gives the ballpark a feel unlike any other in Major League Baseball.
Every Tuesday this season, the Dodgers have hosted a mariachi to play before and during games. Most times, the featured group was Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar, and they return this week for the first playoff game against the San Diego Padres.
