GLENDALE, Ariz. >> In baseball, there are two kinds of hot days. One is the kind you’ll find on a typical summer’s evening at Dodger Stadium, the heat softened by a cool current coming off the Pacific Ocean. The other kind is such a sweaty, sticky mess that even Vin Scully decides to abandon his trademark suit and tie and wear a short-sleeved collared shirt.

Friday was the latter.

There was no ocean breeze to soothe Camelback Ranch when Scully spread out in the broadcast booth. The night game between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants was the only one he would call this spring.

As always, he was ready.

Beside his microphone, Scully had before him a jumble of newspaper clippings and printed sheets, with the occasional name or number highlighted. He would need the notes. The Dodgers have 40 players in their major league camp, only 20 of whom were here a year ago. Even the seasoned Dodger fan needs a game program this year.

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Scully has more seasons on his resumé than most. This will be his 66th year with the team. New names? New faces? To Scully there’s nothing new under the sun ‑ except, on occasion, his wardrobe.

“I say in all honesty there are more players that I don’t know on this edition than in many years gone by,” he said. “Of course that’s the nature of the game today, a long way from when we had the same infield for eight and a half years.”

Scully could see the changes coming.

“I had met Andrew (Friedman) and Farhan (Zaidi), and Josh (Byrnes) I had known before,” he said, “and I knew that basically they were going to change the direction of the team.”

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After change comes anticipation. How is the chemistry of Jimmy Rollins and Howie Kendrick shaping up? Is Joc Pederson ready to play center field? Will Brandon McCarthy and Brett Anderson and Hector Olivera live up to their new contracts?

For many, getting answers to these questions is the very purpose of spring training. It’s why more than a million Cactus League tickets will be sold this spring.

For Scully, one spring game is enough.

“I’ve always found it very difficult to figure out spring training,” he said. “Over the years, it has not touched me. I’ve seen fellows have incredible springs, then for whatever reason the bell rings and they’re totally different players.

“Ralph Houk, the manager of the Yankees, the former Ranger in the Army, an American hero ‑ Ralph always talked about he can be badly fooled in spring training, not only for individuals but for teams.”

So Scully will hang on to his questions until the regular season begins. He is scheduled to call a total of 93 games this year beginning with Opening Day, April 6, when the Dodgers host the San Diego Padres. He’ll call road games in only two cities: San Francisco and Anaheim.

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Scully already has a note about the Dodgers’ schedule.

“They play 22 of their first 38 games at home,” he said, after digging through his papers a bit to find the properly highlighted passage. “And of those games, only 13 games are against teams with an above-.500 record. And that was their killer last year. So that, to me, I think they’re obligated to have a good start. It would be a good thing to keep an eye on during that stretch: How did they do against those teams that are above .500?”

As for the homegrown players who are no longer here, Scully believes the fans will move on. They always do. Today it’s Matt Kemp in a Padre uniform; yesterday it was Steve Garvey. Today, Dee Gordon plays for the Marlins; yesterday it was Mike Piazza.

“No man stays forever in the fan’s mind,” Scully said.

There’s a certain irony to that statement. Scully’s voice might never be forgotten as long as baseball games are being broadcast.

Whether or not this season is his last, Scully sounds no less excited about this one than the 65 that came before.

“I have a picture in my mind of Opening Day,” he said. “Bases loaded. Kershaw in a little trouble and Matt Kemp the batter. How about that!

“That’s thinking like a fan, and there’s still a lot of that in me.”