Once a Dodger, always a Dodger, something that former Boston Red Sox Kiké Hernández is experiencing firsthand. The Los Angeles Dodgers announced on July 25, 2023, that they had reacquired 31-year-old utility player Kiké Hernández from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for 25-year-old right-handed pitcher Nick Robertson and 26-year-old right-handed pitcher Justin Hagenman and […]
(Read More)Archive for July, 2023
Rent or Lease?
The Dodgers are uncomfortably holding on to first place in the NL West Division with a four game lead over the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks, and the surprisingly persistent San Francisco Giants. “Uncomfortably?” Yes, that isn’t a typographical error. Notwithstanding the Dodgers success after returning to action from the 2023 All Star break, their starting rotation […]
(Read More)It’s Broke
It is a proverb that we have all heard many times throughout our respective lives: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But what if it is broke? The Dodgers have played 98 games thus far this season and remain in first place in the National League West with an impressive 57-41 record which has […]
(Read More)Of Course He Did
Twenty-five-year-old Dodgers outfielder / pinch-hitter Jonny Deluca has had exactly 36 official at-bats in his thus far 22-game / 46-day MLB career. The Thousand Oaks, CA native and Dodgers 25th round draft pick in 2019 (that’s not a typo) out of the University of Oregon has nine hits in those 36 at-bats, two of which were […]
(Read More)Extra Base Hits, Extra Smiles
As fans of the game know, baseball is a game of failures. Players will fail more times than they succeed – look at the statistics for batting averages. And yet people will spend their lives either playing or watching the National Pastime. The Dodgers have a unique dynamic this year with their own successes and […]
(Read More)Remember That Name
Remember that name Dodgers (and baseball) fans – it’s Jonny Deluca, no h. You can bet that Texas Rangers center fielder Leody Taveras and Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien will remember it – forever. All the 25-year-old Thousand Oaks, CA native and Dodgers 25th-round draft pick in 2019 out of the University of Oregon did in […]
(Read More)Dodgers ‘Back-to-School Bash’ Set For July 29
The Dream Center’s annual Back-to-School Bash is happening on July 29 at the Dream Center campus blacktop in Echo Park. In partnership with presenting sponsor Kershaw’s Challenge, and Signature Partner the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, the highly anticipated annual event will take place at the Dream Center campus, where 2,500 backpacks and various other school […]
(Read More)The Best in the West
The American League West first place Texas Rangers will host the National League West first place Los Angeles Dodgers for a three game interleague series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas beginning on Friday evening, the result of which could have a significant impact in the standings for both teams. Although a three-game sweep […]
(Read More)Is Julio Broken?
No one wants to say it or even think it, but there is something wrong with extremely popular Dodgers left-hander Julio Urías – something seriously wrong. For the fifth time in his thus far 14 starts this season, the 26-year-old Culiacan, Mexico native, who the Dodgers signed as an amateur free agent on August 17, 2012, […]
(Read More)Dodgers Lose Key Piece to IL
The initial plan was to have some type of clever title for this piece about the excellent pitching performance by 26-year-old Dodgers right-hander Michael Grove in the Dodgers 10-3 pounding of the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on Tuesday; something witty like ‘Grove Back in the Groove.’ But an unforeseen and unfortunate injury to 32-year-old […]
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