The Los Angeles Dodgers entered Sunday afternoon’s matchup three games down in a four-game series against one of the best teams in the MLB. The Atlanta Braves were going for the sweep, but the Boys in Blue, who lead the NL West, would not go quietly and ended up winning 3-1 when all was said […]

One of the first idioms we learned as kids was: “There’s no use crying over spilled milk,” which, of course, means that there’s no point to being upset over something that has already happened and cannot be changed. But we can sure as hell complain about it. During Saturday night’s ugly 10-inning 4-2 Dodgers loss to […]

  *  *  *  Serendipitous: adjective   *  *  *  *  Flash back to Spring Training 2023:   *  *  *  *  *  In addition, there have been other stints on the Injured List (IL) for a host of Dodgers players. For normal MLB team rosters, losses like these would be large obstacles to reaching […]

No team has ever won every game during a major league season. Heck, even the 116-win 1906 Chicago Cubs lost 36 games, as did the the 116-win 2001 Seattle Mariners, who lost 46 games. In the immortal words of “Nuke” LaLoosh, played by Tim Robbins in the epic baseball movie Bull Durham: “Sometimes you win, […]

Two words: ‘As Advertised’. It was Game-1 of the four-game weekend series between the two best teams in Major League Baseball – the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves – in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 47, 623, and it was epic. For many Dodgers fans, the game appeared to be over […]