For the first time in the 2017 baseball season, the Dodgers woke up on Wednesday morning in first place in the National League West. They did so by winning their sixth consecutive game, including a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs and taking the first two of four from the (seemingly) […]
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Bellinger forcing sportswriters to dig deep into history
May 30th, 2017 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka The internet is a wonderful thing, so much so that we frequently ask ourselves how we ever got along without it. But the simple truth is that history is history no matter how we access it. For those old enough to remember, rarely did a week go by without an Encyclopedia Britannica salesman knocking on […]
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Dodgers second worst nightmare realized
May 29th, 2017 at 10:10 am by Ron Cervenka There is zero question that the most important player on the Dodgers team is three-time Cy Young award winner and 2014 National League MVP Clayton Kershaw, and we all remember how him landing on the disabled list last season for a mild disk herniation in his lower back affected the team, not to mention Dodger fans. […]
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Chase Utley gives us a baseball lesson … again
May 29th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was one of those things that you won’t find in the box score or on any baseball analytics website. In fact, in the big scheme of things, it had no bearing whatsoever on the final outcome of the Dodgers 9-4 win over the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon to complete a […]
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Dodgers prospect Angel German one year later
May 28th, 2017 at 10:00 am by Harold Uhlman Dodgers pitching prospect Angel German turned 21 on May 25. The 6’-4” / 185-pound right-hander is now in his second stint with the Great Lakes Loons of the Class-A Midwest League. The native of Bani in the Dominican Republic was signed by the Dodgers as an international free agent on April 18, 2013. German played […]
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The verdict is in – Dodgers won the Chris Taylor for Zach Lee trade
May 28th, 2017 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka When a team acquires a player – whether it be through the draft or via trade – it is, in almost every sense of the word, a crapshoot. If it’s through the draft, a team is basing their selections (and dishing out their draft pool money) on the word of a handful of scouts who, […]
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Dodgers new infielder Mike Freeman has unique claim to fame
May 27th, 2017 at 1:00 pm by Harold Uhlman On Friday, the Dodgers claimed utility infielder Mike Freeman off waivers from the Seattle Mariners. Like his recently waived (and subsequently claimed) teammate Chris Heston, Freeman is a three-time draftee. The Orlando, Florida native was initially selected by the San Diego Padres in the 41st round of the 2006 First-Year Player draft out of Edgewater […]
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Dodgers claim pitcher Chris Heston off waivers
May 27th, 2017 at 9:00 am by Harold Uhlman On Friday, the Dodgers claimed right-handed pitcher Chris Heston off waivers from the Seattle Mariners. In his last option year, he was immediately optioned to the Oklahoma City Dodgers in the Pacific Coast League. Heston is a three-time draftee having first been selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 47th round of the 2007 First-Year […]
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Solid Wood is Solid Gold
May 27th, 2017 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka Skeptical baseball fans waiting for Dodgers left-hander Alex Wood‘s consecutive scoreless innings streak to end will have to wait at least another five days, as the 26-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina native added another five innings to it on Friday night in front of 45,017 at Dodger Stadium. Although Wood’s pitch count rose faster than he would […]
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Is LA’s love affair with Sergio Romo over?
May 26th, 2017 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was a sight to behold. Sergio Romo – a guy with three World Series rings earned while a member of the hated San Francisco Giants – was now wearing a Dodgers uniform, a uniform that his father and grandfather had dreamed that he would one day wear. After all, they and Romo himself had […]
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