On a night that saw former Dodger and current Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Zack Greinke hit two home runs against the San Diego Padres, saw Bryce Harper homer in his fist game back at Nationals Park as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, saw San Francisco Giants star left-hander Madison Bumgarner hit a two-run home run […]
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Taylor, Verdugo join Dodgers 2019 home run parade
April 2nd, 2019 at 11:30 am 
by Ron Cervenka Although it was in a frustrating losing effort to the hated San Francisco Giants on Monday night, Dodgers utility infielder / outfielder Chris Taylor and outfielder Alex Verdugo (in a pinch-hitting role) joined the Dodgers remarkable home run parade on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Also worthy of note, 22-year-old left-handed phenom Julio Urias was […]
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Kelly owns up to “horse crap” outings
April 2nd, 2019 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka You would think that being up 2-0 over the lowly San Francisco Giants heading into the sixth inning would pretty much be a slam dunk win for the six-time consecutive NL West division-winning Los Angeles Dodgers, especially when you’ve got guys named Kenley Jansen, Scott Alexander, Dylan Floro, Yimi Garcia and Pedro Baez in your […]
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Give credit where credit is due
April 1st, 2019 at 12:00 pm by 0799291000348 OK, fess up! After the first weekend of the 2019 Major League Baseball season how many of you peeked at the stats pages of the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers? Purely for informational purposes, you wanted to compare the performances of Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Kyle Farmer, and Yasmani Grandal to their Dodgers’ replacements. Did you smirk […]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is back
April 1st, 2019 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka Suffice to say that four games in does not a season make. But it is also sufficient to say that aside from the addition of 2018 World Series hero Joe Kelly to the Dodgers bullpen, the 2019 version of said bullpen is very much the exact same bullpen that Dodger fans struggled to embrace last […]
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Pollock’s beautiful unpretty swing
April 1st, 2019 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It wasn’t pretty, but it was beautiful. In his first four games in a Dodger uniform – against his former team, no less – Dodgers center fielder A.J. Pollock is 7-for-17 (.412), with one home run, two doubles, and six RBI. He has walked twice and been struck out once. On Sunday afternoon before a […]
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