It’s a vivid memory – one that I’ll smile about until my final days. My mother, who passed over 25 years ago, would almost always bring home a bunch of bananas from the grocery store each week. And though most of them would get eaten by my dad, my two brothers, my sister or me […]

Dodger fans are very familiar with 26-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Nick Ahmed and with good cause. In his two seasons with the snakes, Nick is only hitting .349 against the Dodgers with a .391 on-base percentage and .635 slugging percentage for an alien-like 1.026 OPS. Among his 63 at-bats against Dodgers pitching are five home runs, three […]

In less than 24 hours, two Dodgers pitchers made rehab starts for the Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. The difference between the two – and it’s a big one – is that the first one on Saturday evening was 32-year-old right-hander Brandon McCarthy‘s first and the second one on Sunday afternoon was 29-year-old left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu‘s […]

Dodgers right-hander Brandon McCarthy took the mound in an actual game for the first time in 14 months with the Dodgers Advance Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Saturday evening and, for the most part, he is pleased with the results. “Not bad,” said McCarthy, who underwent Tommy John surgery on April 30, 2015. “Very aware that it […]

There’s a pretty good chance that you will never get anyone in the Dodgers front office to openly admit that any one series during the course of a 162-game season is “the biggest series of the year.” However, you’d have a very difficult time trying to convince anyone that they aren’t at least thinking that this […]

As so often happens these days, relatives of former players tend to make their way into professional baseball. Such was the case on Thursday evening when Gavin Lux, the nephew of former Toronto Blue Jays 1982 first-round draft pick Augie Schmidt, was selected by the Dodgers in the first round of the 2016 MLB First-Year Player […]

This is the 51st year of the First Year Player Draft that was instituted in 1965 to attempt to seek a more competitive balance among major league baseball teams. Regardless of how long it has been a team building process it still provides much excitement and hope for all MLB teams and their fans. Dodger […]

There is no kind or gentle way to put it – the Dodgers offense sucks. When your starting pitchers allow a grand total of 10 runs on 24 hits over the course of a three game series and your offense puts up only five runs on 10 hits, your team is not destined for the […]