The Dodgers took a minimalist approach to expand their September active roster, opting instead to reserve the remaining regular season’s innings for those players returning from the Injured List: David Freese, Dylan Floro, Ross Stripling; and, Julio Urias from the Restricted List. The team only added top prospect Gavin Lux, backup catcher Austin Barnes (once […]

Unless you were at Dodger Stadium for Monday night’s marathon four-hour and six-minute-long slugfest against the National League West last-place Colorado Rockies, you probably missed it. In fact, even many who were there missed it. Several times during that historic game in which 21-year-old Dodgers rookie second baseman Gavin Lux made his major league debut […]

Young or old, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that America’s pastime has changed … a lot. Gone are days when players remain with one team for their entire careers. Instead, their number one goal is to make it to free agency in hopes of landing monster multi-million dollar contracts that […]

As part of a $20,000 grant to Shoes That Fit, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) will hold an event on Friday, Sept. 6 from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles (401 E. 40th Pl., Los Angeles, 90011) where Dodger outfielder A.J. Pollock will help distribute new shoes to 200 children. […]

No, not Gavin Lux making his first start for the Dodgers, or Kenta Maeda moving to the bullpen, although those moves were also overdue and worthy of mention. It was the defensive realignment that saw the healthy A.J. Pollock in left field and the versatile Chris Taylor in center field. The Dodgers did not officially acknowledge […]

The 2019 season will forever be remembered as the year of the walk-off for the Dodgers; more specifically. the year of the walk-off by Dodgers rookies, including a few making their major league debuts. But on Tuesday night in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,231, the Dodgers pulled off yet another come-from-behind win […]

Twenty-one-year-old Dodgers middle infielder Gavin Lux has been a major leaguer for exactly one game. That’s it. One nine-inning major league game, albeit a four-hour and six-minute one, in which the Kenosha, WI native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2016 out of Indian Trail High School in his home town went 2-for-5 (.400) at […]

Mayor Eric Garcetti, Joe Kelly, and David Freese to pass out gift cards, backpacks at Tuesday event WHAT:  The Dodgers, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, Smart & Final and the Getty House Foundation are partnering to fight childhood hunger through the “Home Plate Project,” a partnership of Major League Baseball (MLB), Garth Brooks’ Teammates for […]