Earl Wilson once said: “A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.” This man clearly has never had to endure the postseason as a Dodger fan. It is that time of year where Dodger fans either begin to polish their rose-colored glasses or start preparing now for perceived postseason heartache. Now […]

  *  *  *   Eighth consecutive NL West title. ✓ Number-1 seed for National League postseason tournament. ✓ Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy are hitting. ✓ Justin Turner is back in the lineup. ✓ Walker Buehler is blister-free, healthy, dominant, and ready for postseason play. ✓ Mookie Betts and Corey Seager are NL MVP candidates. […]

The earthquake wasn’t the only thing shaking things up in LA this past week. Dodgers outfielder / first baseman Cody Bellinger did his own shaking things up, going 10-for-24 over his last seven games for an MVP-caliber .417 / .533 / .792 / 1.325 slash line that included three doubles, two home runs, and seven […]

For most Dodger fans, it wasn’t a matter of if their beloved team was going to win their eighth consecutive National League West Divisional title, but a matter of when. After all, they led the division for all but a couple of days during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, while maintaining the highest winning percentage (currently […]

Amid much speculation and rumor, the Dodgers announced on Monday that 28-year-old outfielder Joc Pederson has been reinstated from the family medical emergency list, and 25-year-old utility infielder/outfielder Zach McKinstry optioned back to the team’s alternate training site. Most of the speculation and rumor surrounding Pederson’s absence stemmed from the fact that his wife Kelsey recently […]

It is completely understood and accepted that every baseball player needs an occasional day off, or “blow,” as those around the game call it. The problem is, when that blow involves the best player on the team and perhaps the best player in the game today not named Mike Trout, that blow can be a […]

The 2020 and 2021 seasons are officially over for 37-year-old / two-time Cy Young award winner Justin Verlander. So, too, might be his 16-year MLB career. It was widely reported on Saturday that the Manakin Sabot, VA native, and husband of supermodel and actress Kate Upton, will undergo ulnar collateral ligament (Tommy John) reconstruction surgery on […]

Most of us learned very early in life that there are two basic types of people in this world: those who Talk the Talk, and those who Walk the Walk. Dodgers future Hall of Fame right fielder Mookie Betts is Walking the Walk. There were some, many perhaps, who thought that the 12-year / $365 […]

If the name Mookie Betts immediately comes to mind, welcome to the club. He certainly has the resume to support that status. Over his 842-game career, the 27-year old right fielder has a .900 OPS – comparable to Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Schmidt, and his 1.078 OPS for the 2018 season […]

Through his nine starts thus far in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, Dodgers left-hander Julio Urías has an atrocious combined first-inning earned run average of 8.00 (eight earned runs in nine innings pitched). But then, as if by magic (or secret serum), he suddenly turns things around and pitches like the star that the Dodgers gambled […]