Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has been suspended for two games and fined an undisclosed amount for his excessive arguing in the top of the second inning of his Club’s Thursday, August 16th game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. Joe Garagiola, Jr., Senior Vice President of Standards & On-Field Operations for Major League Baseball, made the […]
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Baseball: The All American Game
August 18th, 2012 at 9:18 am 
by Ron Cervenka Having been involved with the 2008 DVD movie Bluetopia: The L.A. Dodgers Movie, I was honored to be invited to a special screening of the movie at the L.A. Craft and Folk Art Museum this past Thursday. The museum currently has an exhibit called Baseball: The All American Game on display. It was great to see several of […]
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Speed Never Slumps
August 17th, 2012 at 3:49 pm by Ron Cervenka “Speed never slumps.” It’s a baseball cliché as old as the game itself; but is it a cliché or a fact? By the time a minor league baseball player makes it to the Big leagues (if he ever does, that is), he is pretty much expected to have a basic understanding of how to run the bases, and […]
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Hello? MLB? We Have a Problem
August 16th, 2012 at 2:06 pm by Evan Bladh We can now say that the evidence has been presented that the reigning National League Most Valuable Player was juicing. And they gave him the award anyway, because he got off on a technicality and in the process tarnished the name and reputation of an honest sample collector. We can now say that the current […]
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Down on the Farm – Quakes Win 4th Straight with (another) Joc Pederson Walk-Off Hit
August 16th, 2012 at 10:39 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers aren’t the only team with a 4-game winning streak right now. The organization’s Advanced Single-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes are following in their parent team’s footsteps as they, too, have won four straight. In what has seemingly become a pattern (and a very good one to have), the Quakes won their fourth consecutive game […]
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Down on the Farm – Yasiel Puig Makes Debut with Quakes in 9-8 Win Over Ports
August 15th, 2012 at 2:03 am by Ron Cervenka A four-run seventh inning helped the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes to an exciting 9-8 come from behind win over the Stockton Ports (Athletics) on Tuesday night at the Epicenter. It was the third straight win for the Quakes, who are desperately trying to capture a Wild Card berth in the Cal League playoffs. Rehabbing Dodger Ted […]
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You Gotta Have Heart
August 14th, 2012 at 6:16 am by Harold Uhlman Several times a year on ThinkBlueLA, we get into a bit of a debate over “heart.” That is, if our boys are playing with heart, playing half- heartedly, or without heart. I expect that we may vary in our definitions of “heart”, as it is an intangible quality on a baseball team, but probably we […]
(Read More)Dodgers Place Jerry Hairston Jr. on DL – Recall Elian Herrera
August 13th, 2012 at 2:23 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have placed IF/OF Jerry Hairston Jr. on the 15-day disabled list with left hip inflammation (retroactive to August 12) and recalled IF/OF Elian Herrera from Triple-A Albuquerque. Hairston was hitting .273 (65-for-238) with four home runs and 26 RBI and has made starts at second base (26), third base (23) and left field […]
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Jinxed
August 13th, 2012 at 8:09 am by Ron Cervenka As it always does, Sunday’s almost no-hitter by Dodger left-hander Chris Capuano once again brought up the spirited (but tongue-in-cheek) debate among the regulars on the ThinkBlueLA.com forum about uttering the words “no-hitter” when one is in progress, thereby jinxing it. (The no-hitter non-talk begins on page-3 of the game chat). I say spirited because […]
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The Dodgers Magic Number is .600
August 12th, 2012 at 7:09 am by Ron Cervenka After Saturday night’s painful 7-3 loss to the Miami Marlins, I happened to catch the final segment of the DodgerTalk post-game show with Keven Kennedy and David Vassegh. During the segment, Vassegh asked Kennedy the $64,000 Question – Can the Dodgers still win the NL West? Without hesitation, Kennedy answered “Absolutely, but they will have to […]
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