* * * Amid pandemic, LADF challenges runners to go the distance to tackle homelessness, education, health care, and social justice * * * The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) announced on Thursday that the annual Biofreeze Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Run Presented by UCLA Health will shift to a virtual run experience for 6,000 participants November […]
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2020 Biofreeze LADF Run Shifts to Virtual Event Featuring Limited-Edition Walker Buehler Bobblehead
MLB, Dodgers, LADF to Host Virtual Groundbreaking of All-Star Dreamfield and Teen Center Renovations
All-Star Dodgers Dreamfield and All-Star Teen Center to provide state-of-the-art place to play for over 200 Boys & Girls Club members and nearly 3,500 youth in surrounding community * * * Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Dodgers Foundation (LADF) today released a virtual groundbreaking video (download here) in celebration of the two All-Star Legacy projects: The All-Star Dodgers Dreamfield and […]
(Read More)Taking Care of Business
Flashback to Monday night, September 14; the Dodgers, with the best win-loss record in Major League Baseball’s cardboard 2020 season, were on the road to play the young, upstart San Diego Padres. The Padres were making a charge to overtake the Dodgers for the lead in the National League West. They had won their last […]
(Read More)Thanks, Kenley – We Needed That
A word of caution: If you are faint of heart or cannot handle high-pressure situations, do not watch Dodgers baseball right now; doing so can be extremely hazardous to your health. If you don’t think so, simply watch a replay of the final out of Tuesday night’s Dodgers-Padres game at Petco Park in San Diego. […]
(Read More)Kershaw Takes the High Road – The Padres Do Not
Fact: Thirty-two-year-old / 13-year MLB veteran Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw is a future first-ballot Hall of Famer. Fact: Barring the Second Coming or a second Parting of the Red Sea, the only way that 23-year-old / second-year (rookie) major leaguer and San Diego Padres outfielder Trent Grisham gets into the sacred Halls of Cooperstown is […]
(Read More)Dodgers Hope to Activate Turner on Tuesday
During his daily pregame (Zoom) media briefing on Monday afternoon, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters that their plan – as of this moment – is to activate Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner from the Injured List (strained left hamstring) in time for Tuesday’s crucial Game-2 of their current three-game series with the NL West […]
(Read More)The Big One
With their dominating 8-1 win over the Houston Astros on Sunday evening at Dodger Stadium now in the books, the Dodgers will open their three-game series with the National League West second-place San Diego Padres on Monday a mere 2.5 games ahead of them in the division standings and only 13 games remaining in the […]
(Read More)A Nightmare on Vin Scully Avenue
There are nightmares, and then there are nightmares. Saturday night was, as Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen repeatedly said, “Just a nightmare.” And he was right. All the soon-to-be 33-year-old (on September 30) Willemstad, Curacao native had to do was record three outs to preserve left-hander Julio Urias‘ six-inning masterpiece and the Dodgers’ 5-2 lead over America’s […]
(Read More)It All Comes Down to This
There is a saying in baseball that is as old as the game itself: “Any team can beat any other team on any given day.” Case in point: The Dodgers recently lost their first series of the season to the National League West fourth place Colorado Rockies and dropped one of three to the NL […]
(Read More)All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Suffice to say, when the Dodgers acquired outfielder Mookie Betts (and his one-year / $27 million contract) from the Boston Red Sox on February 5, 2020, and subsequently re-signed him to an enormous 12-year / $365 million contract extension on July 22. 2020 that will run through the 2032 season, they did so because of […]
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