Dodgers schedule

[Willie Bee]

Was perusing through a few schedules last night and came to the conclusion that Joe Torre and his troops are in the middle of what has to be the easiest five weeks of a schedule that I've seen in a few years. Get this:

• From June 1 through July 2, they will play 27 games in 32 days. Off days on June 8, June 11, June 15, June 22 and July 2.
• Of those 27 games, 18 are at home in Dodger Stadium.
• Of the nine away games, three are 'on the road' in Anaheim this weekend.
• The only two true road series they will play in this stretch were in Texas (Jun 12-14) with an off day for travel on each side of that series, and in the early part of this next week at the White Sox (Jun 23-25).
• Their road series starting July 3-5 is in San Diego, just down the highway in San Diego (about half the distance as when the Rangers travel to face the Astros or vice-versa).

So I wonder how it works this weekend for the Dodgers: Do they make their players stay in a hotel near the park in Anaheim and, if not, do they still have to pay the players the per diem like a normal road game? I believe a big league player draws something like $89 per day on the road.