It immediately became another “Remember the time…” moment in Dodgers history. With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, his team up 1-0, and with runners on second and third, former Dodger and current Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora elected to have 32-year-old Valencia, CA native left-hander Brennan Bernardino intentionally walk Dodgers […]
(Read More)Archive for July, 2024
The One That Got Away.
In his 10 seasons as the Dodgers President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman has been responsible for the acquisition of some of the best players to ever wear a Dodger uniform, either by trade, free agency, via the MLB draft, or homegrown through one of the best farm systems in the game today. For those […]
(Read More)Improbable to Plausible Trades
As the 2024 MLB trade deadline (6:00 PM ET, July 30) draws closer, we read more and more suppositions regarding Dodgers trade targets. More pitching, adding another outfielder, perhaps a middle infielder. Some baseball experts think the team may make a couple of significant deals before the deadline as they prepare for the stretch drive […]
(Read More)Ohtani Gives Fans What They Came To See
It was textbook, and for Dodger fans, entirely expected. In the top of the third inning of Tuesday’s 2024 MLB All-Star Game at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX, 30-year-old Dodgers designated hitter and international superstar Shohei Ohtani hit a 400-foot three-run home run to right-center field to give the National League a (then) 3-0 […]
(Read More)Never A Doubt
When it was announced last week that 31-year-old Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández had agreed to participate in the 2024 Home Run Derby in advance of Tuesday’s Mid-Summer Classic, there wasn’t a Dodger fan on the planet who didn’t say (or at least think) ‘Well, there’s your winner.’ …and they were right. On Monday evening in […]
(Read More)It’s Time
There is no doubt that injuries have brought the Dodgers back to the rest of the NL West pack. Losing players to the Injured List has been crushing to team performance: Mookie Betts, Ryan Brasier, Walker Buehler, Tyler Glasnow, Joe Kelly, Bobby Miller, Max Muncy, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Clayton Kershaw, who has yet to pitch […]
(Read More)Bullpen Squanders Honeywell’s Excellent Dodgers Debut
It was one of those dark cloud/silver lining things. The National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodger lost their second consecutive game on a second consecutive walk-off win by the American League Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers at a sold out Comerica Park by a score of 4-3 on Sunday afternoon, although this one in the […]
(Read More)Some Good News on a Bad Day
On the heels of what many are calling the single worst Dodgers loss of the 2024 regular season (or longer), Dodger fans received some much-needed good news late Saturday evening. After suffering their horrific bottom-of-the-10th-inning 11-9 walk-off loss to the AL Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers at a sold out Comerica Park on Saturday afternoon, a […]
(Read More)‘We Won a Game Yesterday’
* * * * * * * A great scene from a timeless classic and appropriate for the recently struggling National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers, who snapped their four-game losing streak with a thrilling 4-3 win over the American League Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers on Friday. After yet another shaky start […]
(Read More)Is Ohtani Broken?
Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani is good for baseball. If you don’t think so, just check the attendance numbers whenever the visiting Dodgers roll into town and the number of cellphone cameras that come out whenever he steps up to the plate. And though baseball fans across the country will never admit it out loud […]
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