For those who weren’t around to witness Hall of Fame left-hander Sandy Koufax pitch in person, all I can do is offer you my sympathy. But for those of us who were blessed to have personally witness the man often referred to as “The left arm of God,” we were indeed blessed. Koufax was, in every sense of […]

Quick: Which reliever in Dodgers major league spring training camp with more than seven innings pitched thus far owns the lowest earned run average? Ok, that’s not really a fair question based on the headline of this piece, but yes, it is indeed switch-pitcher Pat Venditte, who, in his six appearances thus far, has allowed a […]

Following Saturday night’s exciting 6-5 walk-off win over the defending 2017 National League Central Division champion Chicago Cubs at Camelback Ranch, the Dodgers announced their first-round of major league roster cuts, as they begin to focus in on what their Opening Day 25-man roster will look like. And while such cuts are never warm and […]

Let’s play the ‘What If’ game. What if it had been Dodgers left-hander Alex Wood who had started Game-7 of the 2017 World Series instead of ill-fated right-hander Yu Darvish, who ended up losing both of his World Series starts? There’s no way Alex Wood could have started Game-7 after having pitched only four days earlier in […]

When Dodgers pitchers and catchers reported for spring training on February 13, nearly every position player – either on the 40-man roster or those who received non-roster invitations – were already in camp, even though they were not officially due to report until February 18. As such, and as you can imagine, the Dodgers clubhouse at […]

On Monday, it was reported that 44-year-old future (first-ballot) Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki – the man simply known as Ichiro – had agreed to a one-year / $750,000 deal with the Seattle Mariners, the team with which it all began for the Nichi Kasugai-gun, Japan native back in 2001. The deal includes incentives that could bring the total amount to $2 […]

Even for the casual Dodger fan, Wednesday afternoon’s highly anticipated match-up between Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and Angels Japanese superstar two-way player Shohei Ohtani was just plain fun. It came in the third inning at Tempe Diablo Stadium, the spring training home of the Angels of Anaheim, with Kershaw having faced the minimum number of batters […]

The Dodgers and the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) on Wednesday launched their second annual Dodgers Reading Champions Challenge, inviting youth from across Los Angeles County to read one million minutes during the campaign, which runs through August. Parents, educators and guardians can register students and learn more about the program at Dodgers.com/LAReads. “Building off […]

Tuesday’s spring training game between the 2017 National League Central Division champion Chicago Cubs and the Dodgers – the team that knocked them out of World Series contention by beating them in five games in the 2017 NLCS – started off with a bit of smugness among Dodger fans. You see, on the mound for […]