Archive for 2024

Max Muncy – Giver of Souvenirs

During the Dodgers 11-2 pounding of the Atlanta Braves in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 44,474 on Saturday evening, Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy generously donated home run balls to two fans in the Right Field Pavilion and one fan in the Left Field Pavilion. It was the first three-home-run game for the […]

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Rookie Wins Game With Veteran At-Bat

Friday night’s exciting 4-3 Dodgers win over the (now) National League East second place Atlanta Braves will forever be remembered as ‘The Andy Pages Game.’ Not only did the 23-year-old La Habana, Cuba native continue his torrid hitting by going 4-for-5 in Friday night’s 11-inning contest, he also gave the Dodgers their first walk-off win of […]

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Dodgers Ownership Pledges $50 Million to LADF

The Los Angeles Dodgers Ownership Group has pledged a donation of $50 million to the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF), the charitable partner of the organization. In addition, Dodger ownership will donate another $50 million if the Dodgers reach the World Series in 2024. The announcement was made at the annual LADF Blue Diamond Gala […]

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Andy Pages is Here to Stay

The Dodgers have played 33 games thus far into the 2024 regular season. Twenty-three-year-old La Habana, Cuba native Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages has appeared in 14 of them and is 16-for-55 (.291), with five doubles and three home runs, which ranks seventh and sixth on the team respectively. He has also driven in 10 runs […]

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Buehler’s Back!

Dodgers beat writer Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic posted this on social media following the Dodgers 8-0 pounding of the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Wednesday night: Needless to say, the return of the 29-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2015 out of Vanderbilt University to the Dodgers starting rotation […]

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The Real Culprit

It’s tough to bag on the Dodgers when they are standing in first place in the NL West 4.0 games ahead of the second-place San Francisco Giants, 4.5 games ahead of the tied-for-third-place San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks, and 10.5 games ahead of the last place Colorado Rockies. However, (come on – you knew […]

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Dodgers Pull Off Rare Feat

On August 28, 2006, the Dodgers did something that ranks right up there as among the rarest of feats in Major League Baseball, perhaps second only to pitching a perfect game. On that warm August evening in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 44,176, Grady Little‘s Dodgers had zero strikeouts in their combined 39 […]

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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

It’s a saying that we’ve all heard (or said) many times in out lives – “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” (along with the similar saying “Close, but no cigar”), but they most certainly do not count in the game of baseball. With his team trailing 3-1 and with two outs and the […]

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Be Careful What You (Boo) For

This past off-season before it was officially announced – on social media – that the Dodgers had signed superstar future Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year/$700-million contract, there were reports – on social media – that the extremely popular 29-year-old Oshu, Japan native had boarded a plane and was en route to Toronto, Canada […]

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Money Well Spent?

Needless to say, when the Dodgers signed 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a MLB record-setting 12-year/$315.8 million contract on December 27, 2023, it left many (most) Dodgers fans both surprised and shocked. Oh sure, it’s easy to say “It ain’t my money,” but in truth, it actually is. I mean, have you paid to park […]

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