After the always-odd scheduled Sunday off day, the Dodgers are back at on the homestand by hosting the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night at Dodger Stadium.

Roki Sasaki makes the start for the Dodgers after a terrible spring training in a still-unrealized search for command. The Dodgers have stood behind Sasaki during his struggles, and plan to give him considerable rope to figure things out on the mound. But they wouldn’t mind seeing some positive results as well.

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“We’re going to run him out there. I don’t think that for me, to put my head in a space that there’s another alternative right now, that’s not helpful. I don’t think so,” Roberts said last Monday. “I think that we’re gonna support him as much as we can, and then give him some runway, and then, once the season starts, then you gotta it’s about production.”

Monday game info

• Teams: Dodgers vs. Guardians

• Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)