It has happened many times before in the past and it will undoubtedly happen many times again in the future – an MLB team plans a huge promotional item giveaway around the July 31 trade deadline and the giveaway items are there but the player is not. Such is the case for the Oakland Athletics, […]

The year 2011 is one that most Dodger fans will probably remember forever. It was the year that Matt Kemp had 40 stolen bases and 39 home runs and was cheated out of the NL MVP Award – literally. Many baseball experts and analysts called Kemp the best player in the game at the time and […]

Dodger fans are a fickle bunch. We’re spoiled, we want our cake and eat it too, and at times we’re willing to go to war in support of our Boys in Blue – and we love every minute of it. We love the never-ending cheap shots at the Dodgers by the national media (who are usually wrong); […]

For the 30% of Dodger fans who actually get SportsNetLA on Time Warner Cable, you might want to set aside (about) 15 minutes of your time this afternoon when the Dodgers and SportsNetLA will air Vin Scully’s press conference announcing his plans to return to the Dodger Stadium booth in 2015 for an unprecedented 66th season. […]

Here’s the good news: The Dodgers beat the Braves 8-4 on Tuesday night on 15 hits. Matt Kemp went 3 for 4 with two home runs and four RBIs. Yasiel Puig went 4 for 5 with a single, a double, a triple and another single to fall a home run shy of the cycle. Adrian […]

If you would have told people at the beginning of the 2014 season that the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team that went on a historic 42-8 run just last season with winning streaks of six games, four games, five games, six games, four games, five games and ended with a 10-game winning streak, would be without even […]

When the ‘save’ became an official MLB statistic back in the ’70s, it brought with it an enigma – the closer. It also brought with it the dubious ‘blown save’ statistic, for which many an MLB career has abruptly ended. Without question Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman personified the closer role. They were and will perhaps always […]

When the Dodgers took the field at AT&T Park on Friday evening for game one of their three-game series against the Giants trailing the Hated Ones by half a game in the NL West standings, Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully said “It’s not a do-or-die game, but it’s a big one.” The same could […]

On this day when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum received their newest members, pitcher Greg Maddux entered the sacred Halls of Cooperstown with one of the greatest careers in baseball history – 355 wins, four Cy Young Awards, 18 Gold Gloves, eight All-Star Game appearances and one World Series championship. In his […]