Let’s face it, the mere thought of witnessing the best hitter in the game going up against the best pitcher in the game is flat out intoxicating. It was enough to draw 47,871 hearty souls through the turnstiles at Dodger Stadium on a (very) hot Sunday afternoon. But the highly anticipated mano a mano battle between future Hall […]

When the Dodgers released their starting lineup for Sunday afternoon’s series finale against the Angels of Anaheim, many – perhaps even most – Dodger fans fully expected that outfielder Andrew Toles would not be in it. He was. If you recall, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, Toles committed a mental base running error the […]

Let’s face it, the game of baseball today is not the same game that it was in 1900, or 1930, or 1960, or 1990. Heck, it isn’t even the same game that it was in 2013. In fact, prior to the 2014 season, it was perfectly legal – expected, even – to completely take out […]

When Yasiel Puig did it, he got benched. When Cody Bellinger did it, he got benched. What happens to Andrew Toles for doing it remains to be seen, but it could very well mean a one-way ticket back to Oklahoma City, and this time Dodger fans may not object. The ‘it’, of course, is dogging […]

Dodger fans who were not yet born (or too young to remember) the Dodgers ‘improbable-impossible’ World Series win in 1988, missed what was unquestionably the single greatest sports memory in Los Angeles history. It occurred exactly 30 years after former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley moved his iconic team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, and it […]

If you had to sum up yesterday – Friday the 13th – in one word, “emotional” is a word that many Dodger fans would use. It began with anxiety when it was announced that 39-year-old / 16-year MLB veteran Chase Utley was going to hold an early afternoon press conference. It didn’t take rocket science […]

When the Dodgers signed right-handed reliever Brandon Morrow as a free agent on January 26, 2017, few – if any – Dodger fans knew who he was. But by the end of the 2017 season, he was arguably the most popular Dodger reliever not named Kenley Jansen. In fact, in the 45 games in which he […]

Prior to Wednesday night’s 4-2 win over the NL West last place San Diego Padres, it was announced that 28-year-old Dodgers right-hander Ross Stripling had been added to the 2018 National League All-Star team roster by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. “We got everyone in [Petco Park’s visitors indoor batting] cage – pitchers, coaches, hitters – […]

Dodger ace Ross Stripling and his wife Shelby will read to 80 elementary school students on Friday, July 13, 11:00 a.m. at Edendale Branch Library located at 2011 Sunset Bl. in Echo Park, as part of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation’s Summer Library Reading Series. The Striplings will join Diane Olivo-Posner, Principal Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library and Chaitali Gala […]