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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Dodgers Recall White, Place Pollock on 10-Day IL
September 5th, 2021 at 3:42 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have recalled right-handed pitcher Mitch White and placed outfielder AJ Pollock on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. White, 26, returns for his eighth stint with the team after tossing 6.0 scoreless innings on Friday in Low-A Rancho Cucamonga. On the season, he is 1-2 with a 3.49 ERA (15 […]
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Gonsolin Impressive in Rehab Start with Quakes
September 5th, 2021 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was short and (relatively) sweet. Twenty-seven-year-old Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin made a rehab start with the team’s Low Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in the first game of a doubleheader at LoanMart Field on Saturday afternoon, as he works his way back from right shoulder inflammation. Gonsolin made a total of 41 pitches (25 strikes) […]
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Dodgers Division-Tying Win Comes at Huge Cost
September 5th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka When the Dodgers signed (then) six-year MLB veteran outfielder AJ Pollock to a lofty 4-year/$55 million free-agent contract on January 26, 2019, it was met with mixed emotions from Dodgers fans. The reason, of course, is that during those six seasons, all with the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks, the (now) 33-year-old Hebron, CT native and Dbacks first-round […]
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