The Dodgers have announced that they will offer $5 parking in lots 13 and 14, beginning with the next home stand, May 8-11 against the San Francisco Giants and May 12-14 versus the Miami Marlins. The $5 fee is available in advance and the day of the game on a first-come, first-served basis. The special […]
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To slide or to dive? – The (multi) million dollar question
May 5th, 2014 at 6:00 am 
by Harold Uhlman We are just out of April and the baseball world has already experienced its fair share of disappointments and surprises in 2014. Managers have been thrown out of games for arguing about the results of replay calls, the transfer rule has been visited and revisited, the new home plate rule has been a source of […]
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Credit Miguel Olivo with the Save in Saturday night’s game
May 4th, 2014 at 9:15 am by Ron Cervenka It was unexpected and it was incredible. It was Carl Crawford’s mammoth two-run home run off of the second deck façade in right field of Marlins Park in the top of the 11th inning off former Dodger Carlos Marmol to give the Dodgers a 9-7 win over the Miami Marlins in yet another game that the Dodgers bullpen let […]
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Fool me once, shame on you – fool me twice…
May 4th, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Okay, I admit it – I almost bought into Dodgers manager Don Mattingly’s belief that right-hander Brian Wilson isn’t concealing an injury, that he just needs more work because of the Australia-shortened spring training (what I affectionately call ‘The Australian Jinx’). I was even beginning to think that Wilson was finally coming around after a couple […]
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Down on the Farm – April Class-A Recap
May 3rd, 2014 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Dodgers minor league affiliates have had a bit of a slow start to the 2014 season with a collective 48-56 won-loss record. The one brighter light has been the Low Single A affiliate in the Midwest League, the Great Lakes Loons. However, a one month sample is not enough to start waving a white […]
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Dodgers have another roster move looming on the horizon
May 2nd, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka When Dodgers ace and two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw made his second rehab start on Wednesday afternoon with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts, he was convinced that it would be his final rehab assignment before returning to the Dodgers starting rotation – even if the Dodgers medical staff was not. But after striking […]
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The other great Dodgers pitching performance on Wednesday
May 1st, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Before Zack Greinke’s outstanding pitching performance on Wednesday evening against the Minnesota Twins in which he picked up his record-tying fifth win in the month of April; before Clayton Kershaw’s overwhelmingly successful rehab start on Wednesday afternoon with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts against the Tennessee Smokies in which he struck out nine batters in only five innings; […]
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