Many in baseball know that the Dodgers fan base travels well regardless of the ballpark or the distance involved. Such was the case on Saturday morning for the first game of a doubleheader at Chicago’s historic Wrigley Field. The first game of the three-game series against the Cubs was originally scheduled for Friday night, but was […]

There are some, many, in fact, who believe that the first week of May is way too early to scoreboard watch or to be even remotely concerned about the MLB standings. To them, I offer this little tidbit: A loss in April or May carries the exact same weight as a loss in September or […]

Just when you think that you’ve seen just about everything that recently acquired Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman has to offer his new team – the NL West first-place Dodgers – he throws yet another treat to “Freddie” chanting Dodgers fans. In the bottom of the seventh inning of Wednesday night’s 9-1 rout of the […]

  *  *  *  “Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.” – Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel   *  *  *  *  As expected, the Dodgers are leading Major League Baseball’s National League West Division. That is what baseball experts predicted before spring training for the team that could start a lineup […]

The Dodgers beat the Giants by a score of 3-1 at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night in the first game of a brief two-game series – the first game of what will be 19 games during the 2022 regular season. And though the game was a typical down-to-the-wire game in one of the greatest rivalries […]

A little over a week ago, we ran an article here on ThinkBlueLA.com entitled ‘The Most Important Series of the Season?‘ At the time, that three-game series against the division-rival San Diego Padres was indeed the most important series of the new 2022 season for the Dodgers, if for no other reason than it would […]

  *  *  *  “No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.” Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda   *  *  *  *  The Boys in Blue […]

As Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully once said of future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw: “He’s done it.” The “it,” of course, was Kershaw’s No-Hitter at Dodger Stadium on June 18, 2014. If Scully were still broadcasting, the “it” on Saturday night at a sold-out Dodger Stadium would have been for the 34-year-old Dallas, […]