What should come as a surprise to no one, the Dodgers topped all of baseball in attendance during the 2021 season – this following their 2020 World Championship season – by a lot. “What was really great was we had almost three million people again, and we didn’t even have full stadiums until June,” Dodgers […]
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Friedman Answers ‘The Burning Question’
October 28th, 2021 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It has been a question on the mind of every Dodger fan on the planet, especially recently and especially during and after the just-concluded 2021 National League Championship Series, when things went terribly wrong for the Dodgers: “Are the decisions being made by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts coming from Andrew Friedman?” During his first off-season […]
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D-Backs Claim Edwin Uceta Off Waivers
October 27th, 2021 at 8:42 am by Ron Cervenka The Arizona Diamondbacks have reportedly claimed 23-year-old right-hander Edwin Uceta off waivers from the Dodgers. Although there has been no official announcement from either team yet, Uceta himself thanked the Dodgers and expressed gratitude to the D-backs on Instagram on Tuesday night. Uceta was designated for assignment by the Dodgers during the 2021 National League […]
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Four Dodgers Named Silver Slugger Award Finalists
October 26th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball announced finalists for the 2021 Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award honoring baseball’s top offensive players. The list included Dodgers Max Muncy, Trea Turner, Will Smith, and Justin Turner. Baseball’s most prestigious offensive award is decided by a vote from each team’s manager and three coaches of the team’s choosing. […]
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That Inning
October 25th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka After experiencing the highest of highs following the Dodgers 11-2 pounding of the Atlanta Braves in Game-5 of the 2021 National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night (aka: ‘The Chris Taylor game’), Dodger fans experienced the lowest of lows following Saturday night’s devastating 4-2 loss to the Braves in Game-6 at Truist […]
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[Baseball] Breaks Your Heart
October 24th, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka “[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count […]
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In Kenley We Trust
October 23rd, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka There isn’t a Dodger fan out there who is not fully aware of the mid-season speed bump that 34-year-old Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen hit. In fact, during the month of July, the 6′-5″ / 265-pound right-hander allowed eight earned runs in 7.2 innings pitched for an unsightly (and un-Kenley-like) 9.39 ERA. Since then, however, the […]
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Dodgers Resolve To Be Tested … Again
October 23rd, 2021 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Following Thursday night’s exciting 11-2 win over the Atlanta Braves in Game-5 of the 2021 National League championship Series at a very loud Dodger Stadium to stave off elimination for an incredible record-setting eighth consecutive time this postseason, Dodger fans were feeling extremely optimistic, knowing that they would have their two best starting pitchers going […]
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Beyond the Bats
October 22nd, 2021 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Thirty-one-year-old Dodgers third baseman Chris Taylor hit a home run in Game-5 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night. And then he hit another one. And then he hit another one. Thirty-three-year-old Dodgers left fielder AJ Pollock also hit a home run in Game-5 of the National League Championship Series […]
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Dodgers Lose Game And Their Captain
October 21st, 2021 at 12:00 pm by Ron Cervenka As longtime Dodger fans know, the Dodgers have not had an official team captain since Hall of Fame shortstop Harold Peter Henry “Pee Wee” Reese retired from the game on September 26, 1958. Oh, sure, there have been several unofficial team captains – guys like Davey Lopes, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, Adrián González, and more recently, Chase […]
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