The Official Site of The Los Angeles Dodgers: News: History comes in from the cornfield. The ceremonial first pitches of the Dodgers’ 2008 season were thrown by Carl Erskine, Don Newcombe, and Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax. Meanwhile, a twenty-year-old Dodgers fan in New England squeals like a ten-year-old teenybopper at a Backstreet Boys concert.