If you are among the thousands who follow SportsNet LA on Twitter (@SportsNetLA), you are well aware that part of their detailed Dodgers coverage are their postgame interviews with players (usually the star of the just-concluded game) and always with Dodgers manager Dave Roberts during his postgame interviews with reporters. If you are indeed among […]

When 35-year-old future Hall of Fame Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw made his major league debut back on May 25, 2008 as a then just turned 20-year-old, it didn’t take long for baseball analysts and experts (and fans) to realize that they (we) were witnessing the next Sandy Koufax. And though the business of baseball has […]

The Dodgers have recalled right-handed pitcher Andre Jackson and have placed right-handed pitcher Shelby Miller on the bereavement list.  Jackson, 26, returns for his fourth stint with the Dodgers and has posted a 7.98 ERA (13 ER/14.2 IP) with 13 strikeouts and a save in six games for the Dodgers. In his career, he is […]

  *  *  *  “It wasn’t a terrible pitch to Schwarber.” Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts   *  *  *  *  Suffice to say, when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters after Friday night’s devastating 5-4 walk-off loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on the absolute meatball pitch served up by struggling Dodgers […]

It doesn’t always happen, but it often happens: the Dodgers hit a bit of a skid, and then it’s ‘Kershday’ – the day that 35-year-old future Hall of Fame lefthander Clayton Kershaw takes the mound for the Dodgers – and he often stops the bleeding. Again, it doesn’t always happen, just often. It happened again […]

When Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman signed right-hander Noah Syndergaard to a one-year / $13 million contract back on December 16, 2022, the 6′-6″ / 242-pound hard-throwing Mansfield, TX native and first round draft pick in 2010 by the Toronto Blue Jays out of Legacy High School in Mansfield had recently celebrated his 30th birthday […]

Everything considered, 2023 may be the best managerial performance of Dave Roberts‘ seven-plus year career as the on-field leader of the LA Dodgers. Although the team’s NL West second place .574 winning percentage is roughly 50 percentage points below their winning rate from 2016 through 2022, it has been accomplished under the following conditions: Even […]

It is difficult – if not impossible – to believe that a team with a roster that includes several of the best players in franchise history and a couple future Hall of Famers would miss the 2023 postseason by one game; simply hard to believe. But should that happen, the current 35-26 National League West […]