When you think of any Dodgers postseason series Game-1 starter – regardless of the series – you immediately think of 34-year-old future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw, right? I mean, why wouldn’t you? Not so fast. Although the Dallas, TX native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2006 out of Highland Park High School […]
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It Was a Blast!
The best part of the 2022 Major League Baseball season officially ends today, October 5, 2022. A heart felt thank you and shoutout to the Dodgers for a wonderfully exciting ride through the 2022 regular season. It has been a blast! Playoffs? While the MLB postseason tournament will be fun to watch, the number of […]
(Read More)Dodgers Pick A Bad Time For Bats To Go Cold
After amassing 10 runs on 15 hits in Friday night’s 10-1 laugher over National League West last place Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium followed by six runs on 10 hits in their 6-4 win over them on Saturday night, the NL West Division Champion Los Angeles Dodgers managed only one run on four hits on […]
(Read More)Just In The Nick of Time
On September 9, Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger was slashing a less-than-stellar .197/.259/.378/.638 with 17 home runs and 55 RBI. After Sunday’s game, albeit a 4-1 loss to the NL West last place Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium, those numbers are now .206/.263/.383/.646 with 18 home runs and 66 RBI – not a monumental change, but […]
(Read More)It’s Not Over Yet
It is easy to get spoiled as a Dodger fan when your team has 110 wins and is seemingly breaking records each and every night since clinching their postseason berth. However, it bears remembering that it takes two teams to play, and any team can win on any given night. Sunday was a perfect example […]
(Read More)Move Over, ’27 Yankees
It has long been accepted that the 1927 New York Yankees are the best baseball team to have ever played the game in MLB’s storied 153-year history. “The ’27 Yankees,” as they are affectionately known, are considered ‘the most legendary and revered team in the annals of baseball,’ (according to Fred Glickstein’s 2005 book of […]
(Read More)Rare Air
With their 10-1 blowout win over the NL West last-place Colorado Rockies on Friday night at Dodger Stadium, the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers improved their record to an MLB best 109-48. In doing so, they are now tied for seventh on MLB’s all-time most wins in a season list with the 1969 Baltimore […]
(Read More)How Can You Not Love Miguel Vargas?
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts will have some very difficult decisions to make in the coming days. Among them include who his outfielders will be for the upcoming National League Division Series – and hopefully beyond. But the absolute bottom line is that our National Pastime is absolutely positively one hundred percent results driven – or […]
(Read More)Don’t Stand So Close To Me
During Tuesday’s night game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego, Game-1 of the three-game series, the Dodgers had a rather unique and rocky start. Padres Cy Young Award-winning All-Star left-hander Blake Snell was dealing while on the bump. But the Seattle native was an easy puzzle for 29-year-old Dodgers right […]
(Read More)Dodgers Make History With 107th Win … And Counting
When Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts led off Wednesday night’s game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park with a double to left and took third on a throwing error by Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar, and then loaded the bases on two walks by Padres right-hander Joe Musgrove, it appeared that the recently […]
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