The Great Lakes Loons entered their winner-take-all playoff game with the Tampa Bay Rays affiliate Bowling Green Hot Rods on Saturday having experienced the best they had to offer and – well – the other side of the equation. On Thursday they had rolled over Bowling Green 15-1 but followed up that record breaking performance […]
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Loons advance to Eastern Division Championship Series
September 11th, 2016 at 6:00 am 
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Great Lakes Loons let one get away
September 10th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman On Thursday afternoon – in the completion of a playoff game suspended on Wednesday because of rain – the Great Lakes Loons had their way with the Bowling Green Hot Rods. The game on the previous day had been suspended in the bottom of the fourth inning with the Loons leading the Hot Rods 3-0. […]
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The other Jose De Leon
September 9th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Dodger fans who follow their beloved team on Twitter have probably noticed that any time an article, blog post, report, recap (etc.), is posted about recently promoted Dodgers phenom right-hander Jose De Leon – aka: @JDL_87, it generally receives a “like” or “retweet” from … Jose De Leon. But if you look a little closer, you will […]
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Great Lakes Loons begin playoffs with a bang
September 8th, 2016 at 9:16 pm by Harold Uhlman The Great Lakes Loons became the Dodgers Class-A affiliate in 2007 YCK; that is, in the Year of Clayton Kershaw. The Dodgers, in a surprise move, brought their affiliate from Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida to Midland, Michigan to begin the 2007 season. The Loons during their ten-year span in Midland have made the […]
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Kazmir setback alters Dodgers rotation plans down the stretch
September 8th, 2016 at 8:04 am by Ron Cervenka No true baseball fan ever likes to see a baseball player suffer an injury, not even one suffered by a member of a rival team. But as we learned long ago as fans of the greatest game in the world, the game waits for no one and one player’s misfortune is another’s opportunity. Such was […]
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Stripling making strong bid for playoff roster
September 7th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka With his strong outing on Tuesday evening against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and with (possibly) four more starts before the end of the regular season, 26-year-old Dodgers right-hander Ross Stripling has put himself in an excellent position to be included on the Dodgers playoff roster – if / when the Dodgers clinch a playoff berth, that is. Even though […]
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Dodgers unveil Vin Scully commemorative coin
September 6th, 2016 at 5:45 pm by Ron Cervenka It was a late addition to the Dodgers 2016 list of promotional giveaway items but it will undoubtedly be among the most popular of the season, if not of all time – the Vin Scully Limited Edition Commemorative Coin – which will be given away to the first 50,000 fans at the Saturday, September 24, 2016 […]
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Maeda’s brilliant pitching overshadowed by 5 Dodgers home runs
September 6th, 2016 at 6:20 am by Ron Cervenka When 2015 NL Cy Young award runner-up Zack Greinke opted out of his 6-year / $147 million contract with the Dodgers immediately following the 2015 World Series and subsequently declined their five-year / $155 million ($31 million Average Annual Value) contract extension offer, it left a very bitter taste in the mouths of most Dodgers fans. After all, Greinke was […]
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Jose De Leon – Exactly as advertised
September 5th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Although we will probably never know why it took until the 136th game of the 2016 season for Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and general manager Farhan Zaidi to call up 24-year-old right-hander Jose De Leon to the Dodgers, there’s a pretty good chance that those who have followed the Isabel, Puerto Rico […]
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Kershaw near perfect in rehab outing
September 4th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka When a regionally televised Dodgers game with Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully at the mic breaks away from the action to report in on a minor league game, you know something big is going on. That major league games was the Dodgers versus the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium and that something big was Dodgers ace Clayton […]
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