Now that the Dodgers have officially won the NL West, they are preparing for the postseason hurdles that must be crossed in order to appear in their third consecutive World Series. Make no mistake, a couple of those hurdles could be large speed bumps, or worse – become roadblocks. The first hurdles in the Dodgers […]

If you missed the first 27 pitches of the Dodgers and Orioles game at Camden Yards on Thursday night, you missed the sum and total of 39-year-old Dodgers veteran left-hander Rich Hill‘s long-awaited and much-anticipated return to action after spending nearly three months on the injured list for a strained left forearm. You may have […]

Heading into Wednesday night’s interleague game with the American League East last-place Baltimore Orioles, the Dodgers had two relievers with a perfect 0.00 earned run average. After that game, there was only one. When 30-year-old Dodgers left-hander Adam Kolarek who, ironically, was born in Baltimore, entered Wednesday night’s game at Camden Yards, he had not […]

It was never really a matter of if, but a matter of when. That when came on Tuesday night at Camden Yards in Baltimore, MD at the hands of the American League East last-place Baltimore Orioles, whom the Dodgers beat rather soundly by a score of 7-3, to capture their seventh consecutive National League Western […]

The Dodgers have recalled infielder Edwin Ríos from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Ríos, 25, returns for his third stint with the club after hitting .286 (10-for-35) with two homers and four RBI in 17 games for the Dodgers. In 104 games with Oklahoma City, he slashed .270/.340/.575 with 31 homers and 91 RBI. In five minor […]

If you are a bottom-line type, the bottom line is that the Dodgers are in first place in the National League West with a MLB third-best 93-52 record and a resounding 17.5-game lead over the second-place Arizona Diamondbacks, and will, in all likelihood, clinch their seventh consecutive NL West title as early as Tuesday evening […]

Dodgers infielder Gavin Lux has been named Baseball America’s 2019 Minor League Player of the Year. The 21-year-old Kenosha, WI native and Dodgers first-round selection in the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of Indian Trail High School in Kenosha, is the third Dodger to win the award since its inception in 1981, joining Mike Marshall […]

From a statistical standpoint, Matt Beaty had the game-winning hit in Sunday’s 5-0 shutout win over the San Francisco Giants in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,310. Although no one knew it at the time, because the Giants failed to put a run on the board, Beaty’s two-run home run in the bottom […]

There is no disputing that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is as positive of a major league manager as you can and will find in all of baseball – this is an absolute fact. But for as positive as the 47-year-old Naha, Japan native and Dodgers four-year skipper is and can be, it is quite possible […]