Monday night’s ugly loss by the (now) 87-56 National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers to the (now) 68-77 fourth-place division-rival San Diego Padres ranks right up there as one of the ugliest of season. Not only were the Dodgers outscored and outhit 11-8 and 14-9 respectively by the Padres, the normally flawless Dodgers defense […]

Following Sunday’s dominating 7-3 Dodgers win over the Washington Nationals at a rain soaked Nationals Park to take two of three from the Nats and finish their six-game road trip going 3-3, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sprung some pretty heavy news on the gathered media. The Dodgers skipper told reporters, including Dodgers beat writer Juan […]

* * * “Wild thing. You make my heart sing. You make everything groovy. Wild thing.” (The Troggs – 1966) * * * * Walk-off home runs happen pretty regularly in Major League Baseball, walk-off base hits even more so. Heck, even walk-off walks and balks happen from time to time. But a walk-off wild […]

It was never a matter of ‘If,’ but ‘When.’ The ‘When‘ came on Friday night, September 8, 2023, at Nationals Park in our nation’s capital. Thirty-three-year-old Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman legged out his 53rd double of the season, surpassing Johnny Frederick‘s record 52 doubles hit in 1929 to become the Dodgers – Brooklyn and […]

Late Friday morning the Dodgers posted this disappointing but not entirely unexpected news about 29-year-old Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler on social media: As noted in the statement, the extremely popular Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2015 out of Vanderbilt University made the statement personally on Twitter, on which he posts […]

It is probably the second most famous and recognizable quote from beloved Dodgers Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, second only to: “It’s tiiiiime for Dodger Baseball! It is also one that if you are too young to have heard Scully uttered personally, you still get to hear before (almost) every Dodgers game on television […]

  *  *  * Reposted from May 30, 2023   *  *  *  * You’re a Dodgers fan, but live thousands of miles from Los Angeles so you purchase the MLB.TV package so you can watch your favorite team.  Not as good as being in Dodger Stadium, eating a grilled Dodger Dog, sipping your favorite […]

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the National League West first place Los Angeles Dodgers have a very serious starting pitching problem. Not only is 35-year-old staff ace and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw (very) obviously broken (although he adamantly insists “I’m fine”), but they just lost 27-year-old soon-to-be […]

There is zero doubt that losing three of four to the Atlanta Braves, the best team in all of baseball, and losing a key member of their starting rotation has left Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team in a quandary. But with only 26 games remaining in the 2023 regular season and despite having a 14-game […]

  *  *  *     “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath     *  *  *  *  There are some players who will join a team and have the power to change the whole inner dynamic. In a year when the Dodgers needed extra fun in the […]