In the just completed three-game home series against the Chicago Cubs, a series that drew a combined 158,719 fans to Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers went 4-for-14 (.286) with runners in scoring position. Unfortunately, they also stranded 20 runners on base, which is absolutely unacceptable for a team with the highest payroll in Major League Baseball […]
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Dodgers Set Wrong Kind of Records


This ESPN post on Twitter (X.com) says everything Dodgers fans need to know about their team’s embarrassing 16-0 shutout loss to the Chicago Cubs in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 53,887 on Saturday afternoon: Whereas, the Cubs amassed 21 hits (that’s not a typo) that included four home runs, the Dodgers […]
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Yoshi + Tommy = W


It’s almost automatic. When 26-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto is on the mound for the Dodgers, and when 29-year-old utility infielder/outfielder Tommy Edman is in the Dodgers lineup (which he has been in 14 of the Dodgers 15 games thus far this season), they usually win. It happened again on Friday night in front of a […]
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Just What They / We Needed


Following what was arguably the Dodgers single worst game of the 2025 regular season against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on Tuesday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team pulled off what was arguably their single best game of their 14-game-old 2025 regular season against those same Washington Nationals on Wednesday afternoon – thanks to some […]
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Men of Steel


Prior to Monday’s ugly 6-4 Dodgers loss to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, the team met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where the Commander and Chief presented each player and staff member a commemorative Presidential coin. As our Commander and Chief did so, he shook the hand of each Dodger player […]
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Dodgers Place Freeman On 10-Day IL


In a move that most Dodgers fans have been expecting, the team announced on Thursday that eight-time All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman has been placed on the 10-day injured list after injuring his surgically repaired right ankle in a slip in his shower at home on March 31. That’s the bad news. The (sort of) […]
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Just As It Was Meant To Be


It was a storybook ending that we all knew was coming – a bottom-of-the-ninth Shohei Ohtani walk-off home run … on his bobblehead night. Oh, sure, no one can really predict a home run (other than Babe Ruth), but if you haven’t figured it out by now, the 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native is our generation’s Babe Ruth. […]
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Centerfield


* * * “Oh, put me in coachI’m ready to play today.Put me in coachI’m ready to play today.Look at me, I can be, centerfield” Centerfield – John Fogerty – 1985 * * * * It may seem odd to consider what tweaking the Dodgers roster may need after winning their first seven […]
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Torpedo Bats – Gift or Gimmick?


It’s the buzz of of Major League Baseball this season – the Torpedo bat. While some may see the uniquely designed MLB-approved bats as just another gimmick reminiscent of the Wonderboy bat from the 1984 hit movie The Natural starring Robert Redford, a growing number of players – and fans – see them as the […]
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Don’t Nobody Say Nothin’


Following the Dodgers dominating 7-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 51,788 on Saturday evening, the popular baseball statistics site OptaSTATS posted this on X.com: Three of those seven historic Dodgers runs came on solo home runs by Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman (his second) in the bottom […]
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