Whenever the Dodgers play the Giants, whether at Dodger Stadium or at Oracle Park, you can count on one thing – it will not be uneventful between two of baseball’s oldest and fiercest rivals. There is no greater example of this than Saturday’s thrilling 14-7 Dodgers win over ‘The Hated Ones.’ And though a final […]
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It’s Time
It’s one of those things that no one wants to say out load but everyone is thinking: utility infielder and Dodgers pro tem third baseman Cavan Biggio has got to go. There. I said it out loud. To be brutally honest, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman never should have traded 23-year-old minor league […]
(Read More)Stone ‘Goes the Distance’
* * * “Gavin Stone goes the distance in an era when nobody does.” * * * * Remember those words, folks. They were spoken by SportsNet LA’s Joe Davis following Wednesday’s 4-0 complete game shutout of the Chicago White Sox by 25-year-old Dodgers right-hander Gavin Stone in front of a sold out […]
(Read More)And the (Game-Winning) Hits Just Keep On Coming
Let’s be real here. If you are a baseball fan, regardless of who your favorite team is, and you are not on-board the Shohei Ohtani train yet, you are not a true baseball fan, period. At risk of redundancy, the soon-to-be (on July 5) 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native is our generation’s Babe Ruth … perhaps even […]
(Read More)Kershaw Rehab Shut Down
It is news that every Dodger fan has been dreading but wasn’t entirely unexpected. Prior to his team’s rain-delayed 3-0 shutout of the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on Monday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts broke this news: “You go through surgery, you go through rehab, you start throwing, you ramp up velocity, workload, […]
(Read More)Ohtani Nearing 2-Mile Mark
For those old enough to remember, back when cigarette commercials were still allowed on television, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company made famous the slogan “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” In fact, it’s even in the Smithsonian. Sorry, R.J., you don’t measure up to Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani. In fact, you’re about ‘a […]
(Read More)Angels-3 – Ohtani-2
International superstar Shohei Ohtani gave 51,841 Dodgers fans exactly what they came to Dodger Stadium to see on Friday night – his 22nd home run of the season against his former team, the Angels of Anaheim – in Game-1 of what will eventually be four interleague games with their cross-county rivals, affectionately dubbed ‘The Freeway […]
(Read More)Kershaw Getting Closer
As the NL West first place Dodgers were being walked off by the NL West last place Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on Wednesday evening, 36-year-old Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw made his first of what is expected to be several minor league rehab starts, this one with the team’s […]
(Read More)Dodgers Get A Coors Field Gift
As die-hard baseball fans, we were all taught long ago that ‘It ain’t over till it’s over,’ especially at mile-high Coors Field, home of the National League West Colorado Rockies. But if ever there were a ‘It ain’t over till it’s over’ game, Tuesday night’s Dodgers-Rockies was it. But here again, it is Coors Field […]
(Read More)Thoughts on Dodgers ‘City Connect’ Uniforms?
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