In 1985, 17-year Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver was asked by a reporter if he felt that momentum from one game could carry over into the next game. After pondering the question for a moment, the Hall of Fame manager answered with a straight face: “Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.“ In Game-2 […]

I didn’t sleep well last night. The Dodgers came up one run short in their comeback, and it’s my fault. It’s all my fault. Baseball players and baseball fans are superstitious. Terrible things will happen if a player or coach steps on the foul line, if an announcer mentions that a no-hitter is taking place, […]

Rather than spew even more negativity at you, which you can certainly find plenty of from Fox, ESPN, the LA Times, or anyone else who has jumped on the “When a team is down two games to none, their chances of winning [insert series name here] are a bazillion-to-one” bandwagon; I suggest taking a long […]

Over the past two days, the Dodgers have spent exactly seven hours and 34 minutes on the field at Globe Life Field in Arlington TX for the 2020 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves. Of that 7:34, the Dodgers have actually played for about 10 minutes. Those 10 minutes finally came with one […]

The Dodgers have won eight consecutive National League West Division titles, which, of course, is the first step to getting to the World Series. Five of those NL West titles have come with Dave Roberts as the Dodgers manager, under whom they made it to two consecutive World Series (2017 and 2018). Quite an accomplishment […]

The Dodgers have announced their 28-man roster for the 2020 National League Championship Series, which begins tonight vs. the Atlanta Braves at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX. First pitch is scheduled for 5:08 p.m. PT on Fox television and AM 570 radio. The Dodgers will carry 15 pitchers and 13 position players. The roster […]

Let’s face it; the Dodgers pretty much rolled over every opponent they faced during the COVID-19-shortened 60-game 2020 regular season, having lost only one of the 19 series that they played and finishing the season with an MLB-best 43-17 record. Well guess what? The Atlanta Braves, with whom the Dodgers will open the 2020 National […]

Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes has appeared in two of the Dodgers six postseason games thus far, both as future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw‘s personal catcher. In those two games, the 30-year-old Fullerton, CA native and ninth-round draft pick in 2011 by the Miami Marlins out of Arizona State University is 4-for-5 at the plate […]

As we all know, “Any team can beat any other team on any given day,” something that we have seen happen to our beloved Dodgers far too many times to count. But it’s probably safe to say that no one really expected to see the Tampa Bay Rays, who finished the COVID-19-shortened 2020 regular season […]

  *  *  *   “All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.” – Ted Williams   *  *  *   Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder Ted Williams was notoriously outspoken and often with over-the-top hyperbole. But fundamentally, he wasn’t wrong – the performance of […]