The Dodgers have recalled infielder Yonny Hernández and placed outfielder Chris Taylor on the injured list with right knee soreness, backdated to June 22.  Hernández, 25, returns for his second stint with the club. In 47 games for Triple-A Oklahoma City, he hit .260 (44-for-169) with 11 doubles, two triples, two homers and 25 RBI. […]

Whenever the the Houston Astros come to town to play the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium – regardless of the circumstances – the games are already at a Level-10 even before the first pitched is tossed. And even though only two players from that 2017 cheating Astros team remain on their current roster and […]

It never fails. Every time Dodgers fans are ready to throw in the towel on 26-year-old Dodgers outfielder James Outman for his current team-leading 88 strikeouts (which always seem to happen at the absolute worst possible time), he comes up with yet another career night at the plate, causing Dodgers fans put the popular Redwood […]

It was one of those things we heard often as youngsters on the schoolyard playground and even more so when we got into organized sports: “You win as a team and you lose as a team.” But even though the Dodgers have ‘won as a team’ more than they have ‘lost as a team’ this […]

GOAT – Greatest Of All Time. It is a hackneyed initialism that is used so often that it has become… well… hackneyed. But even though GOAT is tossed around ad nauseam these days, there is simply no better way to describe 35 year-old Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. He is, […]

It’s no secret, the Dodgers bullpen sucks. In fact, their combined 5.08 ERA is currently the second worst in all of baseball behind only the Oakland A’s horrific 5.54 ERA. “We have not pitched well. There’s really no sugar-coating it,” Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior recently (and accurately) told reporters. The lone exception is 28 […]

Today, Monday, June 19, is a scheduled off day for the Dodgers, and there hasn’t been a more needed day off in recent memory. Here’s why: “Yeah, I think so,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts answered, when asked if there is a sense of urgency in preventing his team from spiraling further out of control after […]

Saturday night’s ugly 15-0 shutout loss to the San Francisco Giants in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 51,388 ranks right up there as not only one of the ugliest losses in recent memory, but among the ugliest losses in Dodgers franchise history. Check this out:   *  *  *  But Saturday’s historic loss […]

It is the stuff that every kid dreams of – the stull of fantasies and eventual legends. A minor league pitching prospect gets the ‘Call Up’ to ‘The Show’ and not only succeeds in their major league debut, but does so in epic and historic fashion. For Dodgers fans, they last saw it with a […]

It’s one of those things that no one likes to talk about, especially Dodgers fans when it involves one of their favorite players and even more so a rookie player who began his major league career in Rookie of the Year fashion – a horrific batting slump. Even without mentioning his name you immediately know […]