As a lifelong Dodger fan I don’t really care who wins the World Series if the Dodgers do not because baseball’s World Championship is won, not awarded. To win it all a whole lot of things have to fall in place, some of which go beyond the actual game itself yet are the most important […]

There is simply no way to deny it – Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter has the Dodgers’ number in the postseason. So how, then, do you pitch to him? The answer may not be as complicated as you think. No, I’m not suggesting pitching around the 6′ 3″, 215-pound right-hand throwing / left-hand hitting Galveston, Texas […]

It’s safe to say that Friday night’s gut-wrenching loss to the NL Central champion St. Louis Cardinals was… well… gut-wrenching for Dodger fans. Not only did the Dodgers have the proverbial ‘best pitcher on the planet’ going for them, but the Dodgers smoking hot bats staked Clayton Kershaw to a 6-1 lead. But then the […]

There have undoubtedly been hundreds of different adjectives already used to describe the Dodgers brutally 10-9 loss to the Cardinals in Game-1 of the National League Division Series on Friday evening, so let’s just leave it at that – it was a brutally loss. But buried in that loss was something that has to make Dodger fans feel […]

I have to admit, I have not watched many Royals games this year nor many American League games in general. I have this long-standing chafing about the DH since its inception, but I really enjoyed watching the wild card game between the Royals and the A’s. Of course it was a great game for the […]

The Dodgers have announced that tickets for the National League Division Series Games 1 and 2 at Dodger Stadium are sold out. Tickets for a possible Division Series Game 5 on Thursday, Oct. 9 and tickets for all League Championship Series games remain on sale atwww.dodgers.com/postseason. The Dodgers open Division Series play on Friday, Oct. […]

Whether out of an abundance of caution or just Dodgers manager Don Mattingly being his normal coy self, nobody in the Dodgers camp will come right out and say that left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu will start Game-3 of the NLDS on Monday in St. Louis – but there is every indication that he will. Is this […]

Exactly nine pitches into Game-1 of the 2013 NLCS, Cardinals right-hander Joe Kelly hit Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez with a 95-MPH fastball in what would become the defining moment of the series, as it took out the Dodgers best hitter with a fractured rib. While some still argue that it was intentional, it probably was not. […]