Intro:

Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks get ready on Tuesday to open 2014 season at Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Mattingly, Los Angeles Dodgers Manager (on the significance of the Sydney games)

"The main thing we have worked in just being prepared, knowing some of the things that people have said about us coming here. The difficulties of it. But at the end of the day, they are two games that count on your schedule and usually a season comes down to..it could come down to one game. So these games for us are real games. We need to win them, we feel like. I am sure Mr. Gibson (Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson) feels the same way. And just from my standpoint, if we can't win, I hope they do."