The Dodgers broke the news late Tuesday morning what a good many Dodger fans have been expecting – that what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts initially told reporters was “forearm tightness“ in the right arm of 25-year-old Dodgers rookie right-hander River Ryan will require a full ligament replacement (Tommy John surgery) to repair. This from Dodgers beat writer […]

Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw celebrated his 36th birthday back on March 19. And while 36 certainly isn’t considered old for most people, in baseball years, it’s nearing senior citizenship. In Monday’s start against the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field in Milwaukee, old Clayton Kershaw showed the 33,628 on […]

As a surprise to no one (except perhaps Dodgers manager Dave Roberts), the Dodgers worst nightmare was confirmed prior to Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, when the Dodgers skipper told reporters that what he had initially described as “forearm tightness“ in the right arm of 25-year-old Dodgers rookie right-hander River Ryan, for which he […]

  *  *  *  You just call out my name And you know, wherever I am I’ll come runnin’ To see you again Winter, spring, summer or fall All you have to do is call And I’ll be there You’ve got a friend.   ‘You’ve Got a Friend’ – Carole King – 1971   *  […]

Murphy’s Law says it all:    “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time”   The absolute LAST thing the Dodgers needed was another injury to one of their starting pitchers. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what they got on Saturday, when soon-to-be (on August 17) 26-year-old right-hander River Ryan suffered […]

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 […]