It took but a brief glance at social media following the Dodgers 5-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday evening to realize that there were a lot of upset Dodger fans out there. The loudest gripe carried the theme of: How can a team that scored 17 runs on Saturday get shutout by […]
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Yasiel Puig did what?
September 16th, 2018 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka You have to admit that when Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill walked the bases loaded and then coughed up a monster second deck grand slam home run to St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Patrick Wisdom in the bottom of the fourth inning on Saturday morning at Busch Stadium to turn a 3-0 Dodgers lead into a 4-3 […]
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Quakes sweep Rawhide in California League Championship Series
September 15th, 2018 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka Shortly after the Dodgers Advanced Single-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes won the California League South Division first half title, thereby guaranteeing them a berth into the postseason, they underwent a very significant personnel change. In addition to losing guys named Gavin Lux, Zach McKinstry, Logan Landon, Zach Reks, Tony Gonsolin, Karch Kowalczyk, and Dustin May (among others) to promotion […]
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Two Dodgers minor league affiliates poised to make history … together
September 14th, 2018 at 11:15 am by Ron Cervenka While the Dodgers continue in their seemingly endless battle to return to their league’s World Championship Series (the World Series), two of their minor league affiliates are on the cusp of winning theirs … on the same night. Never before since becoming Dodgers affiliates have the Double-A Tulsa Drillers (in 2015) and the Advanced Single-A […]
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Dodgers beat Cardinals … barely
September 14th, 2018 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers won the first game of their crucial four-game weekend series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Thursday night … but just barely. In fact, if you were to rate their performance during their eventual 9-7 win over the current National League Wild Card leaders with only 15 games left to […]
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Quakes return home up 2-0 in Cal League Championship Series
September 13th, 2018 at 10:40 am by Ron Cervenka This pretty much sums it up: What this means in plain English is that following Wednesday night’s 9-3 pounding of the Cal League North Division champion Visalia Rawhide (Rockies) by the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes at Recreation Park in Visalia to take a two-games-to-none lead in the best-of-five California League Championship Series, and following Thursday’s off day, Game-3 of the […]
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Dodgers postseason future could be decided over next four days
September 13th, 2018 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka First and foremost, I am not a mathematician, nor do I pretend to be one. But what I am is what you might call a realist. And realistically speaking, if the Dodgers do not leave St. Louis on Sunday afternoon with at least a split (or better) against the current National League Wild Card-leading Cardinals, […]
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Quakes take Game-1 of Cal League Championship Series
September 12th, 2018 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka If you are among the feint-of-heart or among those who do not thrive on extremely intense, gut-wrenching playoff baseball, then you might want to move along, because there is nothing for you to see here. But if exchanging blows between the two best teams in the extremely competitive California League floats your boat, then you’ve […]
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Where are all of the ‘It’s still early’ pundits now?
September 12th, 2018 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Remember back in April and May when the Dodgers lost 16 of their first 28 games, including losing six of 10 to the lowly San Francisco Giants? After nearly every one of those early season Dodgers losses, you couldn’t pick up a sports page, turn on a sports radio or television talk show, or even […]
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Cincinnati Reds – The Dodgers Kryptonite
September 11th, 2018 at 11:00 am by Ron Cervenka If the Dodgers fail to make it to the 2018 postseason, it won’t be because of their (current) 9-7 record against the National League West-leading Colorado Rockies, or even their (current) 7-9 record against the NL West third place Arizona Diamondbacks. No, if the (current) NL West second place Dodgers fail to make it to the 2018 […]
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