Ogden Raptors The Rookie League Raptors are one half game up on the second place Grand Junction Rockies after taking a double header from the Rockies yesterday. The first game was the completion of the rain delayed game from Tuesday, August 26. The Raptors have won eight of their last ten games, seven of them […]
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Without Vin Scully there might not have been a Dodger Stadium
August 28th, 2014 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka During last Sunday’s game at Dodger Stadium between the Dodgers and the New York Mets, the Dodgers surpassed the three-million mark in attendance for the 18th time in the last 19 seasons and the 28th time since the franchise moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958. And while Dodger fans still marvel at the incredible beauty of […]
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Defensive Indifference or Defensive Ignorance?
August 27th, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Quick – How many times have the Dodgers allowed a runner on first base to take second base on Defensive Indifference this season? Don’t know? Okay, here’s an easier one. How many times has the base runner that the Dodgers gave Defensive Indifference to come around to score this season? Can’t find the answer? Of […]
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2014 Arizona Fall League preliminary rosters announced
August 26th, 2014 at 4:49 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s the day that true die-hard minor league baseball fans have been waiting for – the day that the 30 MLB teams announce who will represent their respective franchises in the prestigious Arizona Fall League (AFL), which begins play on Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Representing the Dodgers for the second year in a row is […]
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Is Jose De Leon the next Clayton Kershaw?
August 26th, 2014 at 10:57 am by Ron Cervenka There is a buzz beginning to circulate among baseball fans who diligently follow the Dodgers minor league teams. No, it’s not the buzz about ‘The Untouchable Three’ (Joc Pederson, Corey Seager or Julio Urias), it’s a buzz about a 22-year-old right-hander named Jose De Leon who the Dodgers selected in the 24th round of the 2013 […]
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AGon continues to carry Dodgers towards postseason
August 26th, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has said it time and again. “Adrian [Gonzalez] is our most consistent guy day in and day out,” and the numbers back this up. In his second full-season with the Dodgers, Gonzalez is within 17 points of his career .292 batting average, is within five home runs of his 23 per […]
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Mattingly running out of things to say about Kershaw
August 25th, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka On June 24, 1955, a 19-year-old left-hander by the name of Sanford Koufax made his MLB debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and for the first six years of his career he was… well, not very good. In fact, from 1955 through 1960, Koufax posted a 36-40 record with a mediocre 4.08 ERA and a 1.425 WHIP. […]
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Is Matt Campbell the next Paco Rodriguez?
August 24th, 2014 at 7:55 am by Harold Uhlman The game of baseball has been around as America’s favorite pastime for 169 years. During that time there have been many changes to Alexander Cartwright’s game. In my 62 years as a Dodger fan there has been the inclusion of the DH in the American League, the increased use of Sabermetrics – of which I […]
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Haren continues to confuse Dodger fans while helping Dodgers towards NL West Title
August 23rd, 2014 at 9:41 am by Ron Cervenka Dodger fans who were “fashionably late” to Dodger Stadium for Friday night’s series opener between the Dodgers and Mets never saw that Dan Haren – the one who is consistently inconsistent; the one who is always coughing up home runs; the one who, at times, can be really bad. No, fans who arrived after the […]
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Credit Carl Crawford with the assist
August 22nd, 2014 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Everybody loves the long ball, especially when it’s a game-winner – and Justin Turner’s dramatic two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning on Thursday night was about as exciting as it gets. Not only did it help the Dodgers to a 2-1 win over the San Diego Padres but it was the Dodgers first […]
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