If you were among those who listened to Friday night’s exciting 10-inning 4-3 Dodgers walk-off win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium on the Dodgers radio network, you heard Dodgers broadcaster Charley Steiner say that he was surprised when Chicago Cubs manager David Ross elected to intentionally walk .297-hitting Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman […]

Fact: 28-year-old Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin is not only the best pitcher in the National League, he is the best pitcher in all of baseball. With his outstanding seven-inning / 93-pitch performance (63 strikes) on Thursday night in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,072, the Vacaville, CA native and Dodgers ninth-round draft pick in […]

You will be hard-pressed to find a more exciting – or intense – game than the Dodgers 2-1 walk-off win over the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night. That win came on a Mookie Betts high chopper over the mound and just out of reach of Rockies right-hander Daniel Bard, allowing speedy Dodgers […]

The Dodgers are blessed to have the perfect middle reliever … literally. Twenty-seven-year-old right-hander Evan Phillips, has been Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ go-to-guy for middle (long or short) relief through the first half of the 2022 season. All the Salisbury, MD native and 17th-round draft pick in 2015 by the Atlanta Braves out of the University […]

Immediately after 31-year-old Dodgers outfielder Trayce Thompson stepped on home plate following his fifth-inning three-run home run into the Dodgers bullpen on Monday night to turn a (then) 1-0 Colorado Rockies lead into a (then) 3-1 Dodgers lead, he blew his kiss to someone in the Dodger Stadium stands. Shortly after the Dodgers exciting 5-3 […]

It is an acronym we coined here on ThinkBlueLA.com many years ago: a ‘SHW’ game – Should Have Won. Sunday’s series finale between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium was a SHW game. Instead, Dodgers (very) confirmed closer Craig Kimbrel not only blew his third save in his last 13 appearances, […]

The Dodgers kicked off the weekend with a four-game series against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium. They dominated the first three games, with Dodger’s ace Clayton Kershaw scheduled for the series finale on Sunday afternoon. The first-round draft pick in 2006 out of Highland Park High School in University Park, TX, had a […]

Although the Dodgers starting lineup for Sunday’s series finale against the division-rival San Diego Padres has not yet been announced (but very soon will be), we know two things for sure: Dodgers left-hander and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw will be making his 10th start of the 2022 season; Dodgers outfielder and future Hall […]

  *  *  *  “I don’t think it should surprise anyone anymore. I think he’s just in such a good place mentally, physically.”   *  *  *  *  Pretty high praise of Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin from Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, wouldn’t you say? Then again, for the guy with the best Earned Run Average […]

The National League West first-place Dodgers managed only five hits against the National League West second-place San Diego Padres on Thursday night in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd 53,094. Three of those hits were by popular Dodgers third baseman and unofficial team captain Justin Turner, including two home runs. It was the […]