Anybody who says that the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes exciting bottom of the ninth, down to their last out, down to their last strike, come-from-behind 6-5 win over the High Desert Mavericks on Wednesday night to advance to the California League Championship Series wasn’t a miracle or didn’t involve a little divine intervention is lying – it’s as simple […]
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Dodgers use economy line-up to beat Rockies
September 17th, 2015 at 11:41 am 
by Ron Cervenka It’s no secret that the Dodgers have the highest annual payroll in all of baseball – $308,740,533 at last count. But on Wednesday evening, they fielded a starting line-up that totaled a mere $29,400,400 – a drop in the bucket in the big scheme of things for Mark Walter and the rest of the Guggenheim Baseball […]
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Quakes pull off miracle win to advance to Cal League Championship Series
September 17th, 2015 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes pulled off what can only be described as a miracle win over the High Desert Mavericks (Rangers) on Wednesday night at LoanMart Field to advance to the 2015 California League Championship Series, which begins this evening – also at LoanMart Field. After jumping out to a quick 3-0 lead […]
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It’s not about old-school vs. new-school, it’s about results
September 16th, 2015 at 12:22 pm by Ron Cervenka It is arguably the most frequently asked question around Dodger Stadium these days: Should Dodgers manager Don Mattingly put Jimmy Rollins in the lineup as his everyday shortstop once he is fully recovered from his hand injury or should he continue to use rookie sensation Corey Seager even after Rollins is healthy? Taking it one step further and an […]
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Mattingly defends questionable move with questionable answer
September 16th, 2015 at 9:50 am by Ron Cervenka There comes a point in every extremely long extra-inning game where it just stops being fun; a point where the radio announcer’s constant attempt at being funny or cute becomes annoying and intolerable and leaves their listeners muttering to themselves wishing that Vin Scully still did television and radio. Add to this an unseasonal tropical storm […]
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Schebler still not bothered by playing in shadow of others
September 15th, 2015 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka After yet another monster home run – his third in only his 10th major league game – Dodgers rookie outfielder Scott Schebler was yet again asked if it bothered him to be playing in the shadow of rookie sensation Corey Seager – this time worded as “swimming in Corey’s wake.” And just as he has done […]
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It’s déjà vu all over again for Corey Seager
September 14th, 2015 at 5:48 pm by Ron Cervenka As you would expect, when Dodgers top prospect Corey Seager made his major league debut on September 3 at Petco Park in San Diego, he was nervous. But that was 11 days ago and since that day Seager has played in every one of the Dodgers 10 road games. As such, you would think that with […]
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Farewell, my friend
September 14th, 2015 at 12:30 pm by Ron Cervenka It was an unusual friendship, one born out of appetite rather than social environment. It began one anxious day back in April 2012 – anxious for me, that is. After having run an interactive fan-based Dodgers forum for several years, my IT guru and good friend Scott Harvey and I decided to expand our forum to include a […]
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Home, sweet home
September 14th, 2015 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka After a 7-3 road trip, their most successful of the entire season, the Dodgers return home to Dodger Stadium tonight to begin a 10-game homestand – during which they can conceivably clinch their third consecutive NL West title, albeit with the help of the Reds, Dbacks, Padres and A’s, all of whom will face the Giants over […]
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Corey Seager making things difficult for Don Mattingly
September 13th, 2015 at 12:08 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s one of those things we’ve see many times before – a Dodgers manager continually running a guy out there in spite of the fact that he’s struggling when there is someone far better on the bench. We saw it with Andruw Jones, we saw it with Garret Anderson, we saw it with Juan Uribe during […]
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