* * * “The nineteenth member of the 3,000 strikeout club is Max Scherzer.” Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis * * * * It was pretty much a given that when recently acquired 37-year-old Dodgers right-hander Max Scherzer entered Sunday’s game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium with 2,994 career strikeouts, he […]
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Scherzer Set to Make History
September 12th, 2021 at 10:02 am 
by Jayann Kellogg After winning Saturday’s game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers remained 2.5 games behind the San Francisco Giants for first place in the National League West. Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler took the mound against the Padres on Saturday and was sensational. The 27-year-old Lexington, Kentucky native allowed only two runs on […]
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The Biggest At-Bat of the Season?
September 12th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka History will forever show that Mookie Betts‘ crucial three-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning on Saturday evening is the reason why the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres by a score of 5-4 to remain 2.5 games behind the National League West first-place San Francisco Giants with (now) 19 games remaining […]
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Pick A Cy … Any Cy
September 11th, 2021 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka As the end of the 2021 regular season draws near, the list of favorites to win the National League Cy Young Award seems to be getting longer instead of shorter. The reason for this is, of course, that the good ones (as they say) seem to be getting even better with each additional outing. Leading […]
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Dodgers, Roberts Continue to Struggle
September 10th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka For the second day in a row, following his team’s second loss in a row, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts – the guy who is supposed to have the answers – didn’t. “Umm… You know, I really don’t know,” Roberts answered when asked what his takeaway was from Thursday’s 2-1 loss to the NL Central third-place […]
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It Is No Longer ‘Still Early’
September 9th, 2021 at 8:41 am by Ron Cervenka Following Wednesday’s disappointing 5-4 loss to the National League Central third-place St. Louis Cardinals, the National League West second-place Dodgers have 22 regular-season games remaining and now trail the NL West first-place San Francisco Giants by two full games. And while a two-game lead is most certainly not insurmountable, to do so will require that […]
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Storybook Albert
September 8th, 2021 at 1:30 pm by Ron Cervenka It should have come as a surprise to no one that future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols received a lengthy standing ovation when he was introduced for his first at-bat in the top of the first inning at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday afternoon, regardless of the fact that he now wears a […]
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Billy McKinney Options
September 7th, 2021 at 8:00 am by 0799291000348 On July 21, 2021, the Dodgers traded minor league outfielder Carlos Rincon to the New York Mets for outfielder Billy McKinney. It wasn’t a headline-grabbing trade. Rincon was no longer considered a top prospect by the Dodgers, and McKinney was a Mendoza-line hitter who had been DFA by the Mets five days earlier; his third […]
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Albert Pujols – Bringer of Fans
September 6th, 2021 at 12:15 pm by Jayann Kellogg Shortly after the Dodgers disappointing 6-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on Sunday, the team immediately packed their bags as the second-place team in the NL West, now one game behind the rival Giants, and headed to St. Louis to open a four-game series with the Cardinals at Busch Stadium beginning […]
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This One Isn’t Entirely on Buehler
September 6th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Sunday’s 6-4 loss to the National League West-leading San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park was a tough pill for Dodger fans to swallow. After all, they had their ace and 2021 National League Cy Young Award hopeful Walker Buehler on the mound who, to be brutally (and unfairly) honest, Dodger fans expected to win; this […]
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