*  *  *  How it started… On April 9th, 1981, a rookie pitcher, who had only pitched in ten games the previous year, came in on Opening Day at the last minute to replace left-handed starter Jerry Reuss. Reuss was scheduled to kick off the season but was a late scratch due to a […]

For the first time since July 3, 35-year-old Dodgers ace and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw pitched in a major league game, having spent 38 days on the injured list for left shoulder inflammation, for which he received a cortisone injection. The Dallas, TX native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2006 out […]

Although the line score from Wednesday’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondback reads two runs on eight hits with no errors for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team, the real reason for their fourth consecutive win and their two-game series sweep of the (distant) NL West third place Dbacks was more about their […]

There’s Hot, and there’s Hot. …and then there’s Freddie Freeman Hot. Freddie Freeman is Freddie Freeman Hot In his last five games, the Villa Park, CA native and second round draft pick in 2007 by the Atlanta Braves out of El Modena High School in Orange, CA is 8-for-21 (.381), with one home run, one walk […]

Former Dodgers general manager and current SportsNet LA analyst Ned Colletti said all that needed to be said on social media: Play Ball!   *  *  *  *  *  * 

It was a blast from the past; one that put a smile on the face of every veteran (old) Dodgers fan watching Sunday’s 8-2 Dodgers win over the (distant) NL West fourth-place San Diego Padres at a very Dodger Blue Petco Park. With one out in the top of the second inning and the Dodgers […]

Looking up to the Dodgers is the typical view for the San Diego Padres, whether it is in the NL West standings, or metaphorically as “…the dragon up the freeway we’re trying to slay,” according to Padres owner Peter Seidler (August 7, 2022). If not slay, then wishing to emulate the Dodgers long history of success. […]

Not going to beat a dead horse, but the Dodgers ugly 8-3 loss to the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on Saturday night was another one of those ‘should have won’ games that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team flat out gave away. But as we were all taught as kids, ‘You can’t win them […]

Baseball is a game full of surprises. Just when you think something is impossible, the impossible happens; and usually something incredible. During Friday night’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres at a sold out Petco Park in downtown San Diego something impossible and incredible happened – not once, but twice […]

Twenty-three-year-old Dodgers right-hander Emmet Sheehan not only saved Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics for 26-year-old left-hander Julio Urías in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,624, he also saved Dodgers manager Dave Roberts from having to use his often used (and overused) bullpen … with a […]