It happens every season. To be more accurate, every season since 2012. The Dodgers are closing in on their seventh consecutive National League West Championship and eighth straight postseason appearance with an enviable 88-49 record. But there is also another trend over this period that is of great concern and extremely frustrating. As the team […]
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Dodgers Find “Unconventional Way to Lose”
August 31st, 2019 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It is the first thing, absolutely positively the very first thing that a pitcher learns in Little League: You do not – and cannot – feign or fake a pickoff throw to first base. Second base or third base? Absolutely. But first base? Absolutely not. If you do, it is a balk. Period. On Friday […]
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Quakes Sweep Way to Second-Half Title
August 30th, 2019 at 8:00 pm by Lauren Jennings Coming into their final homestand of the season, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes sat in first place, but with the Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres) right on their tails in second and Lancaster close behind in third. The Quakes took on the Storm, looking to not only widen the gap between them but also earn the second-half […]
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What’s up with Cody?
August 29th, 2019 at 4:00 pm by 0799291000348 OK, this may be classified as a ‘senior moment,’ but it seems not that long ago when the only baseball stats I read were those on the backs of Topps baseball cards and those published each week by the baseball bible The Sporting News. Today, one can quickly access Baseball_Reference, MLB Stats, Fangraphs, Baseball Savant, […]
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LADF to Host Foundation Run on September 29
August 29th, 2019 at 3:03 pm by Ron Cervenka Limited-Edition Kenley Jansen Bobblehead to be Released for 6th Annual Biofreeze – LA Dodgers Foundation Run Presented by UCLA Health The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation has announced that Dodger pitcher Kenley Jansen will be featured on its second limited-edition LADF run bobblehead, given to all runners in the Sixth Annual Biofreeze Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation […]
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80 Million Reasons
August 29th, 2019 at 8:15 am by Ron Cervenka There are 80 million reasons why 31-year-old Dodgers right-hander Kenley Jansen is and will continue to be the Dodgers closer … even if it kills us. Here they are: Yes, it’s true. Money talks and… well… you know the rest. Simply put, when you (Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers, actually) are paying a guy Mariano […]
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Buehler Brilliance
August 28th, 2019 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka After being mercilessly manhandled by their potential World Series opponents – the New York Yankees – this past weekend at Dodger Stadium, and then being thoroughly embarrassed by perennial National League West cellar dwellers – the San Diego Padres – the Dodgers, the real Dodgers, finally showed up for game-2 of their three-game series against […]
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Quakes Take Final Road Series of 2019 Regular Season
August 27th, 2019 at 5:00 pm by Lauren Jennings The month of August has been kind and even historic for the Quakes as they have won or swept five of the seven series they have played this month. They also surpassed their previous best of 42 road wins in a season by winning 43 games while playing away from home this year. This was, […]
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Dodgers Bats Remain M.I.A.
August 27th, 2019 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Just as they were during the just-concluded three-game interleague series with the American League East-leading New York Yankees at Dodger Stadium this past weekend, the Dodgers bats remain Missing In Action, as the National League West leaders opened a four-game series with the NL West fourth-place San Diego Padres on Monday night at Petco Park. […]
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Dodgers Need To Lick Their Wounds and Move On – Fast
August 26th, 2019 at 3:15 pm by Ron Cervenka Suffice to say, Dodger fans are less than pleased with what they saw from their beloved team this past weekend against the (likely) American League East champion New York Yankees at Dodger Stadium. Although the Dodgers weren’t swept by the Bronx Bombers, they came within a clutch Justin Turner two-run home run in a very […]
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