It all comes down to this. The date is Tuesday, October 31, 2017 – Halloween in the City of Angels. Trick or Treat. It will be the latest that the Dodgers have ever played in any calendar year in their 134-year franchise history. As noted by our good friend Eric Stephen over at True Blue LA, it […]
(Read More)Archive for October, 2017
Everyone available for Game-6 except Kershaw & Darvish
With their backs against the wall and one loss away from forever being known as 2017 World Series runners-up, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters via conference call on Monday afternoon that Monday’s off day couldn’t have come at a better time, following Sunday’s marathon 10-inning 13-12 loss to the American League champion Houston Astros. […]
(Read More)A night(mare) to remember
It is a World Series game that will be remembered as perhaps the greatest ever played. …and the worst. It is a World Series game that the Dodgers had in the win column three different times. …and the loss column four. It is a World Series game in which so many things went incredibly right. […]
(Read More)The defining moment
It happens during every World Series – during every postseason series, in fact. A defining moment. That one hit or play or even single pitch that turns the momentum around and usually leads to a series win. It happened on Saturday night during game-4 of the 2017 World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston, […]
(Read More)Jansen named ‘Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year’
For the second consecutive year, Dodgers All-Star closer Kenley Jansen has taken home the prestigious ‘Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year Award,’ presented annually to the outstanding relief pitcher in the league. The presentation was made on Saturday afternoon prior to game-4 of the 2017 World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston, […]
(Read More)Roberts picked a bad time to change his managing style
Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to the way that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has piloted his team thus far in the 2017 World Series has undoubtedly noticed that he is not managing his team in the same manner that got his team there. I mean, why on earth would the defending 2016 National […]
(Read More)11-inning World Series game-2 was lost in the 7th inning
When Dodger fans painfully read, watch or listen to re-caps of Wednesday night’s heartbreaking 7-6 loss to the Houston Astros in game-2 of the 2017 World Series, they will read, see or hear words like epic, remarkable, impossible, and even historic. And while each one of there adjectives most certainly describes Wednesday night’s historic 11-inning […]
(Read More)Kershaw brilliant in Dodgers first World Series win in 29 years
When the Dodgers took the field at Dodger Stadium for game-1 of the 2017 World Series on Tuesday night, there was an electricity in the historic ballpark of the likes not felt in decades … three decades to be exact. On the mound for the Dodgers was their ace, 29-year-old Clayton Kershaw who, to this […]
(Read More)It all comes down to this
It started on February 25, 2017 when the Dodgers took the field at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona for the first of what would be 37 spring training games. This was followed by a grueling 162-game regular season, of which the Dodgers won 104 games – more than any other team in all of baseball. […]
(Read More)Seager ‘good to go’ for World Series
Although the Dodgers have yet to officially announce their 25-man World Series roster, it appears that 23-year-old shortstop Corey Seager, who missed out on celebrating the Dodgers winning their first National League pennant in 29 years with his teammates in Chicago, will be on it. Seager, who was left off of the National League Championship Series […]
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