There's no tailgating at Dodgers Stadium. Here's how fans pregame instead

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CBS 58) -- Baseball fans from across the country are descending on Dodger Stadium for the NLCS Game 3. 

If this was American Family Field, we'd be seeing tailgaters in the parking lot and smelling all the grills fired up. 

The pregame situation at Dodger Stadium is not that. They let cars in around 2 p.m. our time, but there's no tailgating in the parking lots here. 

That ended in 2011 after some issues with violence. Others point to the potential for fires from grills and embers, so people can come in and eat and mingle on the stadium's concourses. 

Or they start in the Echo Park neighborhood down the hill. There are several bars catering to Dodgers fans on Sunset Boulevard. 

We stopped by to see what it's like. 

"Game days are just fun," says Johnny Jeltema, owner of The Douglas. "Everybody's got smiles on their faces, our bar tends to swell up a couple of hours before every game."

"I have to know the pre-scene, so I Googled The Douglas here, and they're like, this is where everybody comes. This is why we're here," says Cubs fan Diane Kaiser.

The Douglas is styled after Midwestern dive bars. That's because the owner is from Michigan. He wanted to create the atmosphere people from the upper Midwest are used to.

"I feel like that is culture, you know, that's our Midwest culture," Kaiser says. "We're nice and we like to eat and share our food. What can we say?"

Diane didn't book this trip when she thought it would be the Cubs playing. She's here for work. But leave it to Midwesterners to find the pregame spots.