When Dodgers right-hander and Cy Young award front runner Zack Greinke was a late scratch prior to Wednesday night’s game against the third place Arizona Diamondbacks, Dodger fans weren’t feeling too optimistic – especially after having lost four in a row at Dodger Stadium for the first time since 2013. So when veteran second baseman […]

About an hour after the first place Dodgers were pounded by the third place Arizona Diamondbacks 8-0, their fourth straight loss at Dodger Stadium that had Dodger fans fuming, word began spreading on Twitter that baseball legend, American war hero and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra had died at the age of 90. And just like that, […]

Anyone who has followed major league baseball for any length of time knows that when you get down to the final few weeks of the season, there isn’t a player on the roster who isn’t beat up to some degree or another. Even guys who are referred to as ‘second-half’ players are dealing with some […]

It’s no secret that the Dodgers bullpen has been the team’s Achilles heel for the past two postseasons. There is no greater example of this than last year’s National League Division Series when a bridge between their starting pitchers and closer Kenley Jansen was non-existent, forcing Dodgers manager Don Mattingly to keep his starters in longer than […]

One strike. That was all that was needed to send the High Desert Mavericks to the California League Championship Series – the Advanced Single-A Cal League’s equivalent of the World Series – and send the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes home for the winter. But that strike never came. Instead were four pitches out of the strike zone on […]

Throughout the course of a long 162-game season, we often hear the phrase “This is a must-win series.” And while it is the goal of every major league team to win every series during the season – and the good teams win most of them – there are definitely several must-win series, especially during the final two […]