But do they get Dodger dogs??

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July 24, 2008 12:33 PM PT

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The top-ranked U.S. beach volleyball duo, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, accompanied by Sean Rosenthal of the second-ranked U.S. team, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Dodger Stadium on Friday before the Dodgers’ game against the Washington Nationals.

Also due to participate are Misty May-Treanor, who will team with Kerri Walsh to defend their beach volleyball gold medal, and Nicole Branagh, whose playing partner will be Elaine Youngs.

Saturday’s ceremonial first pitch participants will be Beijing-bound divers Troy Dumais of Ventura and Laura Wilkinson, as well as 2004 gymnastics Olympian Mohini Bhardwaj.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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