It is a play that the Dodgers make 99 times out of 100. It came on the third pitch of Saturday’s game between the Dodgers and their most-hated division-rivals, the San Francisco Giants, at a sold-out Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers did not make the play. Instead, Giants rookie sensation Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of Hall of […]
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Back-to-Back Homers Keep Quakes Playoff Hopes Alive
September 7th, 2019 at 12:04 pm 
by Lauren Jennings Down to their final three outs of the 2019 season, the Rancho Cucamonga Quake trailed the Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres) 6-5. Elsinore started the inning with a new pitcher, one who had struck out the Quakes 1-2-3, two of them looking, to end game one of the California League South Division Finals. Pinch-hitter Starling Heredia […]
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Dodgers Starting Rotation Picked a Bad Time to be Bad
September 7th, 2019 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka In his last five starts, longtime Dodgers ace and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw is 2-3 with a very unKershaw-like 4.34 ERA. The good news is that in those five games, he struck out a very Kershaw-like 40 batters in his combined 29.0 innings pitched. The bad news is that in those 29.0 innings […]
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It’s Win-or-Go-Home Time for Quakes
September 6th, 2019 at 5:30 pm by Lauren Jennings After a miserable showing from the Quakes offense in game-1 of the Cal League South Division Finals, the Storm (Padres) took a 1-0 series lead with one game left to play in Lake Elsinore before the series moved to Rancho Cucamonga. Game-2 looked like it had the right combination of things to allow the Quakes […]
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Reading Between the Lines
September 6th, 2019 at 10:00 am by 0799291000348 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 […]
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Adam Kolarek – The Dodgers (Near) Invisible Man
September 6th, 2019 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Quakes Bats Absent in Game-1 of Cal League South Finals
September 5th, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Lauren Jennings Amidst a sky of smoke and falling ash, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes began a best-of-five series against the Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres) seeking a game-1 road win in the California League South Division Finals. The Storm sent rehabbing major league pitcher Garrett Richards to the hill while the Quakes countered with Gerardo Carrillo. Carrillo came […]
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Ethier’s ‘Wonder Boy’ Bat Helps Dodgers Make History
September 5th, 2019 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Dodgers to Provide ‘Shoes That Fit’ to 200 Children in South LA
September 4th, 2019 at 12:00 pm by Ron Cervenka 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. […]
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The Overdue Lineup Change
September 4th, 2019 at 9:00 am by 0799291000348 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 […]
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