Archive for May, 2023

A Different Day, A Different Hero(es)

When 24-year-old Dodgers rookie right-hander Gavin Stone allowed four runs to the Atlanta Braves in the bottom of the first inning to give the Braves an early 4-0 lead on Monday night at Truist Park near downtown Atlanta, there were probably a good many Dodgers fans who said something to the effect of: “Welp, this […]

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Outman To Appear at Memorabilia Network Store

Dodgers rookie sensation James Outman will appear at The Memorabilia Network store in the Sherman Oaks Westfield Mall on Thursday, June 1 between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Westfield Mall is located at 14006 Riverside Dr. in Sherman Oaks. Renowned sports memorabilia agent Harlan Werner and his company The Memorabilia Network will also have several one-of-a-kind […]

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Is the Unthinkable Nearing?

It’s one of those things that no one wants to talk, read, or even think about – that Dodgers longtime ace and future first ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw‘s brilliant career is coming to an end. After 411 major league games (408 starts) and 2,638.1 innings pitched – all in a Dodgers uniform (think […]

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Inexcusable and Unacceptable

Baseball is a very difficult game to be very good at all the time, especially at its highest level. As such, when a game is decided on because of an inexcusable and unacceptable blatantly blown call by an umpire, it is yet another (and there have been many) loud cry for Major League Baseball to […]

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Dodgers Offense Conundrum

On Monday, February 27, the Dodgers played the San Diego Padres in their third Cactus League game of Spring Training 2023. Like all Spring Training games, whether the Dodgers or Padres won or lost was inconsequential, as the teams and players were only interested in conditioning and fine tuning their skills for the upcoming championship […]

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‘Just Like They Wrote It Up’

Throughout our respective lives and regardless our respective age, we have all heard the phrase “Just like they wrote it up” hundreds, if not thousands of time. On Thursday evening, that popular phrase was absolutely positively uttered (ad nauseam) for the very reason that it was created for when, in front of a Busch Stadium […]

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Outman’s Grand Adjustment to the Adjustments

We’ve seen it before, as recently as the Cody Bellinger Dodgers years – A young rookie player makes it to The Show, puts up Rookie-of-the-Year-caliber numbers for several weeks or even months, and then struggles … horribly. In nearly every case (injuries notwithstanding), it’s not that they just suddenly lose their groove (so to speak), […]

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Not Good ‘Stuff’ Costs Kershaw

Dodgers ace and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw entered his MLB-leading ninth start of the 2023 season on Tuesday night with a Kershaw-like 2.36 ERA. And even though his ERA is still a team-best 2.52 among all Dodgers starters after suffering his third loss of the season to the Minnesota Twins in front of […]

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One For The Books

Fans who gutted out Monday night’s game between the National League West first place Los Angeles Dodgers and the visiting American League Central first place Minnesota Twins were not only treated to the (thus far) most exciting game of the 2023 season, but also to the (thus far) longest game of the 2023 season. In […]

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Just What Doc Ordered

Just what ‘Doc’ ordered – an absolutely outstanding outing from 29-year-old Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin in his fourth start since returning from the injured list for a sprained left ankle suffered during Spring Training. What ‘Doc’ – Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (DR … get it?) – got from the Vacaville, CA native and Dodgers ninth-round draft […]

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