You have to look hard in the box score to find it, but it’s there. Oh, is it there. The one play – or misplay – that prevented the Dodgers from sweeping the San Diego Padres in front of a COVID-19 sold-out Petco Park crowd on Sunday afternoon. It occurred with no outs in the […]

The Bazooka is back! As promised by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts during his daily Zoom media briefings over the past couple of days, 22-year-old right-hander Brusdar Graterol has been activated and added to the 26-man roster, and 25-year-old left-hander Alex Vesia, who was activated yesterday as a ‘just in case’ piece in the Dodgers heavily-taxed […]

A team adding a pitcher to the bullpen after a long extra-inning game is not unusual; it is almost SOP these days with teams optioning and recalling players from their respective alternate training sites as frequently as kids used to trade baseball cards. After Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler pitched the first seven innings of the […]

It’s a term that gets tossed around often by radio, television, and print/internet media types: ‘Future Hall of Famer.’ And while no one knows for sure until Hall of Fame ballots are actually counted who achieves baseball immortality and who does not, you are only kidding yourself if you do not believe that Dodgers ace […]

A little over 24 hours after 35-year-old left-hander David Price recorded the first save in his brilliant 13-year MLB career, he notched his first (of 151) win in a Dodger uniform … and it was glorious. In a game that was three minutes shy of five hours long and saw a combined 17 pitchers used, […]

When the Dodgers entered the bottom of the seventh inning on Thursday night – Jackie Robinson Day – in front of a COVID-19 sold-out Dodger Stadium crowd of 15,129, they were in a position unfamiliar to them; trailing the NL West last-place Colorado Rockies by a score of 5-3. When the inning ended, they were […]

Everyone knows what a fan-favorite third baseman Justin Turner is. He is the unofficial Dodger’s team captain and helps provide a lot of leadership and cohesiveness in the clubhouse. Fans waited expectantly, but perhaps not quite so patiently, to hear whether the Front Office would resign him in the off-season. They were rewarded over Valentine’s […]

April 15, 1947, marks a day in both Dodgers history and baseball history that changed the world. It is now celebrated and known as Jackie Robinson Day, the day that Robinson became the first African American to break the color barrier and play in the Major Leagues, where his skill made him one of the […]

The Dodgers 1966 starting rotation of Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Claude Osteen, and Don Sutton is generally regarded as the greatest starting rotation in Dodgers franchise history – perhaps even in Major League Baseball history. Koufax was the ace with a 27-9 win-loss record and a 1.73 ERA, Osteen went 17-14 and 2.85, the rookie […]

In the box score, they don’t even show up as an official “At-Bat.” Instead, they are called “Plate Appearances.” The reason is that when baseball scorekeeping was invented (for lack of a better word) over a century ago, a base on balls (BB) – more commonly called “a walk” – has always been considered a […]