Overview
- The team, which learned Sunday around 4 p.m. of a joystick failure that controls takeoff and landing, chose buses instead of waiting for a replacement jet expected about 10 p.m.
- Players approved leaving immediately in a team vote, and the three-bus convoy reached the Orange County hotel around 12:30 a.m.
- To protect recovery, scheduled starter Dylan Cease flew commercially to Orange County and then struck out 12 Angels in five innings in Monday’s 5-2 win.
- Manager John Schneider said Max Scherzer jokingly issued a kangaroo court summons over the choice, signaling clubhouse humor rather than a dispute.
- Schneider and staff described tight, minor-league-style conditions on the ride, which became a bonding moment for a traveling party of roughly 60 people.