When you look at the box score from Thursday night’s 3-1 Dodgers loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium, arguably one of the most important game of the 2018 regular season, one thing immediately jumps out at you – every  Dodger in the lineup struck out at least once except for shortstop Manny Machado. […]

It is generally a bit of an overstatement to proclaim any one series during a 162-game season as the single most important series of the season. But beginning on Thursday evening, the NL West third place Dodgers (by 1.0 GB) will indeed embark on the single most important series of the season when they host the NL West […]

When the Dodgers traded away five of their top prospects to acquire 26-year-old shortstop Manny Machado from the Baltimore Orioles during the 2018 All-Star break, they did so for his Gold Glove(s) and even more so for his powerful bat to take over for then (and still) struggling part-time shortstop Chris Taylor. At the time, Taylor […]

Back on August 6, ThinkBlueLA ran an article entitled Have the Dodgers finally found their missing element? – an article which pointed out that with the additions of Manny Machado and Brian Dozier to their everyday lineup, the Dodgers immediately became a better base stealing team; thus bringing back an element that has been seriously missing […]

It has been said and repeated many times this season that ‘So goes Justin Turner, so go the Dodgers.’ Justin Turner is going good right now … exceptionally good. In fact, the 33-year-old Long Beach, California native and seventh-round draft pick in 2006 (by the Cincinnati Reds) out of Cal State Fullerton and signed by the […]

Prior to being placed on the 10-day disabled list for an irregular heartbeat on August 10, Dodgers three-time All-Star closer Kenley Jansen had converted 32 of his then 35 save opportunities. Since returning from the DL exactly 10 days later on August 20, the 30-year-old Willemstad, Curacao native has converted none. In fact, he has blown one save and […]

“It’s the Padres.” Keep telling yourself this. Yes, a win’s a win, but a win over the (now) 50-81 National League West cellar dwellers is supposed to happen, especially for a Dodgers team that once led the division but has lost six of their last 10 games and currently sits in third place within the […]

If the Dodgers were to win all 34 of their remaining games, they would finish no less than 2.0 games ahead of the current NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks and 4.0 games ahead of the current second place Colorado Rockies. That’s the good news. The bad news is that no team has ever won more than […]

Dodger great Steve Garvey will once again host his popular King’s Hawaiian ‘Grillin With Garv’ series on Friday evening prior to the three-game series opener with the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium, with grilling time set for 6 p.m. The event will be held at the King’s Hawaiian Grill located in the Left Field Plaza at […]

Who would have ever thought that a three-game weekend series with the NL West last place San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium would prove to be the single biggest series of the 2018 season for the Dodgers, yet here we are. Oh sure, I fully get that it means absolutely nothing in the big scheme […]