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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thursday night’s 10-2 pounding of the National League East champion New York Mets by the National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a Citi Field crowd of 43,882 in Game-3 of the 2024 National League Championship Series will best be remembered for the monster 422-foot home run into the second deck by […]

Fans who have followed Major League Baseball for a while most certainly remember Hall of Fame outfielder Reggie Jackson. The oft-controversial Abington, PA native and first round draft pick in 1966 by the (then) Kansas City Athletics out of Arizona State University spent a remarkable 21 seasons in the Bigs – 10 with the A’s, five […]

International superstar Shohei Ohtani is 2-for-7 (.286) with three walks and two strikeouts in his 10 plate appearances through the first two games of the 2024 National League Championship Series. Although most Major Leaguers would kill for a .286 NLCS batting average, it is rather un-Ohtani-like and brought to mind the timeless classic poem ‘Casey […]

It was quick and it was subtle. And unless you turned on the Fox pregame show half an hour before Game-2 of the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon, you missed it. For those who did miss it, Hall of Famer, 10-time […]

Twenty-eight-year-old Dodgers right-hander Jack Flaherty (who turns 29 on Tuesday) was nothing short of sensational in Game-1 of the 2024 National League Championship Series in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 53,503 on Sunday evening. All the popular Burbank, CA native and first-round draft pick in 2014 by the St. Louis Cardinals […]