During Tuesday’s pre-Wild Card Game workout at Dodger Stadium, Dodgers right-hander and starting pitcher Max Scherzer, Dodgers third baseman and unofficial team captain Justin Turner, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts held actual live-and-in-person (not Zoom) press conferences. Without any fluff, hype, or hoopla, here are several key comments from each. Max Scherzer: “You draw on […]

One of the unwritten rules of Major League Baseball is that when a pitcher is replaced on the mound during an inning, he hands the game ball to the manager before walking to his team’s dugout. The manager then hands the ball to the incoming relief pitcher, a symbolic gesture that the ball game is […]

Anyone who has spent any amount of time around Dodgers manager Dave Roberts knows that among his many other skills, he is the ultimate cheerleader. He is also known for saying exactly the right thing at exactly the right time. During his pregame Zoom media session prior to Sunday’s season finale against the Milwaukee Brewers […]

For the second time in three days, the Dodgers won a game in which they suffered a huge loss. On Friday night, future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw left the game with two outs in the top of the second inning after making only 44 pitches when he suffered what was being called “forearm […]

If you would have said on Game-1 of the 2021 baseball season that the National League West wouldn’t be decided until Game-162 (or hopefully Game-163), even the most ardent baseball fan would have said you were nuts. …yet here we are. The unfortunate part is that regardless of how well the Dodgers have played over […]

There is no kind or gentle way to put it. Despite their exciting 8-6 come-from-behind win over the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night in front of 51,388 at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers suffered their toughest loss of the season. …and postseason. On his 42nd pitch of the night and with two outs […]

Just when you thought you’d heard every possible word or phrase to describe what the Dodgers offense has been doing of late, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, as he so often does, came up with a new one following his team’s 8-3 pounding of the San Diego Padres in front of a sold-out Dodger Stadium crowd […]

It was one of those things that when it happened, everyone who was there in person (or watching on television) said: “You’ll never see anything like that happen again.” The date was September 18, 2006. The Dodgers were hosting the San Diego Padres in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 55,831. Down 9-5 in […]

It’s down to five regular-season games remaining for both the Dodgers and Giants. The sobering truth – whether we choose to accept it or not – is that the Dodgers must, absolutely must win out the season and hope that the Giants lose two of their remaining game just to tie them for the NL […]

Heading into Tuesday evening, the San Francisco Giants hold a two-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West with six regular-season games remaining. In other words, even if the Dodgers were to win out the season, they would need the Giants to lose two of their remaining six games just to […]