Thirty-year-old Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler made what was probably his final rehab start on Thursday evening at Triple-A Oklahoma City, as he works his way back from his August 23, 2022 (second) Tommy John surgery and right hip inflammation. The Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2015 out of  Vanderbilt University allowed […]

Fifty-three-year-old Hunter Wendelstedt has been a Major League umpire since 1998 and has long been considered among the better umpires in the league. Not any more. During Wednesday’s game between the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and NL East first-place Philadelphia Phillies in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 45,003 (and millions more watching on television […]

It is an image that will remain etched in the hearts and minds of Dodger fans for a very log time. It is the image of 25-year-old Dodgers right-hander Brusdar Graterol being helped off the field by teammate Kiké Hernández and Dodgers head trainer Thomas Albert with tears in his eyes after suffering an injury […]

By now, every Dodger and baseball fan on the planet is well aware of the medical condition (Guillain-Barre syndrome) that three-year-old Maximus Freeman, son of Dodgers first baseman and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Freddie Freeman, is dealing with, so I won’t belabor that issue. But what absolutely bears repeating is the incredible show of […]

When the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers left town on July 29 for their (thankfully) just-concluded eight-game/three-city road trip that took them through Houston, San Diego, and Oakland, they did so with a relatively comfortable 6.5-game lead over the NL West second-place San Diego Padres, a 7.0-game lead over the third-place Arizona Diamondbacks, a […]

When Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman acquired 28-year-old right-hander Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for minor leaguers Thayron Liranzo and Trey Sweeney this past Tuesday, it probably caused a good number of Dodgers fans to say: “Who?” With the Tigers, the Burbank, CA native and first-round draft pick in 2014 by the […]

It’s getting old – fast. Although 2024 Dodgers All-Stars Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández continue to play at the level that made them All-Stars, the rest of the Dodgers lineup is at – or below – mediocre; in several cases well below mediocre. During Friday’s ugly come-from-ahead 6-5 loss by the NL West first-place Los […]