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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Another Dodgers pitching prospect will debut on Sunday
September 3rd, 2016 at 5:50 pm by Ron Cervenka While most of the Dodgers non-Kershaw, non-Puig news has been centered around top right-handed pitching prospect Jose De Leon making his major league debut with the Dodgers on Sunday, there will be another of the franchise’s top pitching prospect also making a debut of sorts on Sunday afternoon. Twenty-two-year-old Long Beach, California native and recently named Texas League […]
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Jose De Leon to make MLB debut on Sunday
September 3rd, 2016 at 12:01 pm by Ron Cervenka It took until the 136th game of the season but on Sunday, September 4, 2016, Dodgers top ranked right-handed pitching prospect Jose De Leon will make his long awaited and much anticipated major league debut against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium. “We get to see Jose on Sunday, he’s our Sunday starter,” Dodgers […]
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Stewart, Rios named Dodgers Minor League Pitcher, Player of the Year
September 2nd, 2016 at 12:25 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have named right-handed pitcher Brock Stewart as the Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher of the Year and infielder Edwin Rios as the Minor League Player of the Year. Stewart, who will turn 25 on October 3, completed a meteoric rise from Single-A to the big leagues this season, becoming the first Dodger since […]
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It’s Separation time
September 2nd, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka With only 29 games remaining in the regular season for the Dodgers, a lot has been made about the six games remaining with the San Francisco Giants, and rightfully so. With the Dodgers currently holding onto a slim 2.0-game lead over the Hated Ones, those six games will be huge in determining who not only will win the […]
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The forgotten RBI
September 1st, 2016 at 6:36 am by Ron Cervenka Dodger fans who stuck it out to the very end of game-2 of Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Colorado Rockies were not only treated to arguably the most exciting game of the season, they also witnessed history. Trailing by a score of 8-2 heading into the top of the eighth inning, only four Dodger teams in franchise history […]
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Baez move absolutely had to be made
August 31st, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Mention the name “Pedro Baez” while in the company of Dodger fans and two things will probably happen. First, all conversation will immediate stop; and second, every eye will immediately be upon you … and not in a good way. There isn’t a reliever on the Dodgers 40-man roster whose mere mention brings out more emotion – […]
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Dodgers to give away Vin Scully commemorative coin
August 30th, 2016 at 5:40 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have announced that the first 50,000 fans in attendance on Saturday, September 24 (6:10 pm vs. COL) will receive a limited edition Vin Scully commemorative coin. Scully is in his 67th and final season in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers. The Hall of Famer’s 67 years of consecutive service with the Dodger organization is the […]
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Quakes ‘Control their own Destiny’
August 30th, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka When the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes won the 2015 California League Championship last September it was the first time they had done so since becoming the Dodgers Advanced Single-A affiliate in 2011 and they did so in grand fashion by sweeping the ever-powerful San Jose Giants in three games. But as happens even spring, they began […]
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