Seven-time Emmy Award winner Alanna Rizzo is back – not with the SportsNet LA, but with MLB Network’s High Heat with Christopher ‘Mad Dog’ Russo. In January, Rizzo posted on Twitter that she was leaving the Dodgers and SportsNet LA to put her personal life above her professional life. There was an immediate outpouring of […]
(Read More)Archive for March, 2021
Dodgers Single-Game Tickets for April Go On Sale Friday
* * * The Dodgers have announced that single-game tickets for the month of April (excluding Opening Day) will go on sale this Friday, April 2, at 10:00 a.m. PT at Dodgers.com/Tickets. Fans are encouraged to visit the Dodgers’ Fan Safety Portal at Dodgers.com/FanSafety to learn more about the club’s policies and procedures for the […]
(Read More)Locked and Loaded
And here we are. The 2021 Major League Baseball season begins tomorrow; a season that is expected to be a full 162 games, with a full round of playoffs that will (hopefully) lead up to a complete best-of-seven 2021 World Series. “I think that we couldn’t have got through Spring any better,” Dodgers manager Dave […]
(Read More)Dodgers Sign Veteran Outfielder to Minor League Deal
According to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (via MLB Trade Rumors), the Dodgers have signed soon-to-be (on April 24) 32-year-old/6-year MLB veteran outfielder Steven Souza Jr. to a minor league deal. This from MLBTR: The Dodgers have agreed to a minor league contract with veteran outfielder Steven Souza Jr., reports MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Souza, 31, spent the bulk […]
(Read More)LA County Moving Into Orange Tier This Week
* * * Moving From COVID-19 Red to Orange Tier Allows Dodger Stadium Capacity to Increase to 33% * * * Late Tuesday morning, news broke that Los Angeles County would be moving from the COVID-19 red tier into the less-restrictive orange tier this week, allowing for more business to reopen and increased […]
(Read More)The Dodgers Top-30
After winning the 2020 World Championship, the Dodgers went to 2021 Spring Training with a veteran group of players. Even though their minor league system was deep in talented young players, there were few opportunities for even the cream-of-the-crop to win a spot on the Opening Day roster. Nonetheless, the team invited 22 of their […]
(Read More)Urías Sharp in Final Tune-Up
On the same day that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced who his fifth starter would be to open the 2021 season, his number four starter, 24-year-old left-hander Julio Urías, was nothing short of brilliant. During his pregame Zoom media briefing, Roberts said that 23-year-old right-hander Dustin May had won the competition between him, 26-year-old right-hander […]
(Read More)Lux To Be ‘Everyday Guy’
The debate is over – 23-year-old Dodgers infielder Gavin Lux will be an everyday player in 2021. …mostly. “I think that we see Gavin as an everyday guy, right and left,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters following his team’s 6-5 loss to the Angels on Sunday night. “But he is going to have some […]
(Read More)Hmmm…
On Saturday morning, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts again told reporters during his pregame Zoom media scrum that Dodgers ace and future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw would be his Opening Day starter against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on April 1. He then said – for the first time – that his number-two […]
(Read More)Bauer Checks Off Final Spring Training Boxes … and More
When news spread that the Dodgers had signed 2020 AL Cy Young Award-winner Trevor Bauer to a lofty three-year / $102 million contract back on February 11 that will take him through the 2023 season, it was met with mixed feelings among Dodger fans. Let’s face it, the 30-year-old North Hollywood, CA native and first-round […]
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