The Los Angeles Dodgers are the Champions of Baseball. “This is what we said we were going to do and we did it,” Betts said postgame. “Earlier in the day I said if it gets squirrely let me know and I’ll head down there (to the bullpen),” the 30-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft […]
(Read More)Archive for October, 2024
Walks Kill You
It is a long proven fact that walks kill you. Not the ones you take around the block or in the park, but the base-on-ball type in baseball … unless you are the recipient of those walks, that is. In Monday’s 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers win over the New York Yankees in Game-3 of the […]
(Read More)Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
As Dodgers fans well know, Oklahoma City has had a longstanding relationship with Minor League Baseball (MiLB), having joined the Pacific Coast League in 1998 and becoming a Dodgers MiLB affiliate in 2015. On Sunday the team announced that they have changed their team name to the Oklahoma City Comets. It is the fifth team […]
(Read More)A Costly Win For Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game-2 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, but it came at an enormous and potentially series-changing cost. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, international superstar Shohei […]
(Read More)Freeman ‘Breaks’ Dodger Stadium
It was déjà vu all over again. Anyone who saw Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman‘s historic walk-off grand slam home run against the New York Yankees in Game-1 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, and let’s be honest here, what true baseball fan did not, had an immediate flashback to […]
(Read More)Right Man, Right Time
If you have been a sports fan for any significant period of time, you’re familiar with the axiom – “The right man, in the right place, at the right time.” Kirk Gibson was that guy in the first game of the 1988 World Series, and Freddie Freeman was the man 36 years later in Game […]
(Read More)God Has A New Left-Hander
The Dodgers and entire baseball world continue to mourn the passing of beloved Dodger great and Spanish radio broadcaster Fernando Valenzuela, who passed away on Tuesday evening. The heartbreaking news came shortly after 8 PM PDT on Tuesday via social media, generating a flood of heartfelt replies and personal stories about the popular Navojoa, Mexico native […]
(Read More)THIS is Why You Always Bring Your Glove
If you have been to Dodger Stadium over the past 10 to 15 seasons, you have undoubtedly seen him. His name is Steve Mears but he is more affectionately known as “Moneyball Steve,” and he is arguably one of the most prolific collectors of baseball memorabilia, especially of baseballs; more specifically, home run baseballs. He […]
(Read More)As It Should Be
Although the National League East Division Champion New York Mets made the 2024 National League Championship Series interesting, there was never really much doubt that it would be the NL West Division Champion Los Angeles Dodgers who would represent the National League in the 2024 World Series against the American League Champion New York Yankees […]
(Read More)A Recipe For Disaster
You can’t expect to win a game at baseball’s highest level, especially during the postseason, when you do this: This is what the National League West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the team considered by many to be the best in the game, did in their embarrassing 12-6 loss to the NL East Division champion […]
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