If you had a dollar for every time 26-year-old Dodgers outfielder/first baseman Cody Bellinger struck out on a high fastball during his injury-shortened 2021 regular season, you’d have quite a few dollars. In fact, of his 94 strikeouts in the 95 regular-season games in which he played, it’s probably safe to say that (at least) […]
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Dodgers Place Cody Bellinger on IL
September 21st, 2021 
Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have placed infielder/outfielder Cody Bellinger on the injured list with a left rib fracture (retroactive to September 18) and have recalled outfielder Luke Raley from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Bellinger, 26, returns to the injured list for the third time this season. He appeared in 89 games this year with an un-Bellinger-like .159 batting […]
Cody Bellinger’s Role
August 23rd, 2021 0799291000348 There is no disputing the enormous athletic talent of 26-year-old Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger. Fans have marveled at his five-tool talent since his 2017 rookie season when he slashed .267/.352/.581 with 39 home runs and was named the 2017 National League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. After a solid […]
Have a Game, Cody Bellinger!
June 3rd, 2021 Ron Cervenka The date was September 13, 1977. Former Dodgers outfielder Dusty Baker drove in five runs … in the first inning. The date was May 7, 2005. Former Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent drove in five runs … in the first inning. The date was April 26, 2008. Former Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp drove in five […]
Dodgers Add the Next Cody Bellinger to their 40-Man Roster
November 20th, 2019 Ron Cervenka It was 230 years ago – in 1789 – that the great Benjamin Franklin wrote: “…but in this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” If Benjamin Franklin were around today, he would have added a third item to his short list of life’s certainties: “Dodgers top prospect DJ Peters […]
Cody Bellinger – ‘Future Hall of Famer’
November 16th, 2019 Ron Cervenka It is a title that is not taken lightly – ‘Future Hall of Famer.’ Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw has it. Angels centerfielder Mike Trout has it. Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado has it; as do a handful of others. But at only 24 years of age and with only three major league seasons under his […]
UPDATE: Is Cody Bellinger Broken?
June 13th, 2019 Ron Cervenka Let’s face it, although there isn’t (wasn’t) a Dodger fan on the planet who didn’t have visions of soon-to-be (on July 13) 24-year-old Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger becoming the first .400 hitter in 78 years, it is (was) more wishful thinking than anything else. Oh sure, it could still happen. But with his batting average […]
“Cody Bellinger, you are ridiculous”
April 27th, 2019 Ron Cervenka Like many youngsters, my love and passion for the game of baseball came from my father, who had tremendous patience when he would schlep my brothers and me in our (then) new 1957 Plymouth station wagon to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to watch his beloved Chicago Cubs play the newly-arrived Los Angeles Dodgers. It […]
Cody Bellinger taketh away and Cody Bellinger giveth
April 22nd, 2019 Ron Cervenka For the most part, over the course of a grueling 162-game season there are very few games that you will remember as being little more than a win or a loss in the grand scheme of things. But every now and then there is one of those games; a game that you will not only […]
It’s hard not to like the new Cody Bellinger
July 21st, 2018 Ron Cervenka While nearly all of the attention in Friday night’s 6-4 Dodgers win over the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park was on Dodgers superstar newcomer Manny Machado, and rightfully so, there was one almost insignificant at-bat that went completely under the radar for all but the most savvy of Dodger fan. It occurred in the top […]
