Happiness Win or lose, baseball makes me happy. From watching my favorite players make great plays or hit home runs, to seeing a pitcher’s duel unfold before my very eyes. There’s just something about the dirt, the grass, and the crack of the bat that puts me in a great mood. Anytime Visit a baseball […]

With Major League Baseball facing its single-most difficult challenge in its glorious 151-year history, and with the 2020 regular season in (very) serious danger of being canceled, Dodgers – and baseball – fans have only memories to fall back on (and sportswriters to write about) to keep their sense of sanity; most recently, their memories […]

The Dodgers have so much talent and depth that there will be difficult roster decisions before Opening Day of the 2020 regular season. One of the most difficult to date was optioning 24-year-old infielder/outfielder Zach McKinstry to Triple-A Oklahoma City. He not only out-performed utility players Edwin Rios and Matt Beaty this Spring, but also […]

  *  *  *  *  Having a birthday in early March, being able to go to a baseball game on your actual birthday can be pretty hard to come by.  In 2015, I spent my 20th birthday with the Dodgers and the Indians, that is until we ended up in the emergency room after my […]

Let’s face it, it pretty much goes without saying that there are going to be a number of Houston Astros batter hit by pitches during the upcoming 2020 regular season, this in spite of the fact that there will be harsh warnings, ejections, fines and even suspensions against those not skilled in the art of […]

Now that the Dodgers have played fifteen games in 2020 Spring Training we can see the signs that the cream is rising to the top. Pitching: Pedro Baez – 4 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 7 K; Caleb Ferguson – 4.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 K; Kenley Jansen – 4.2 IP, 1 H, […]

We live in a remarkable time where we can send people into space for months – or years – at a time, we can text photographs to friends and family (almost) anywhere in the world, we can transplant nearly every organ in the human body, and we can purchase anything online with our smartphones in […]

It is the least favorite yet most inevitable part of Spring Training – roster cuts; and on Thursday morning, the Dodgers made the first of what will soon be many more to follow. Shortly before the Dodgers squared off against the Oakland Athletics at Hohokam Stadium in nearby Mesa, AZ, the team announced the right-handers […]

It happens every Spring training. Late in Grapefruit and Cactus League games, the public address announcer informs fans in attendance of lineup changes: “Now pitching for… batting ninth, number 99,…” Unless you are paying close attention to the announcement, your first reaction is likely: “What did he or she say? What was that number? Who […]

There is so very much to like about the 2020 Dodgers through their first two weeks of Spring Training. Chief among them, of course, is the addition of four-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, three-time Silver Slugger, 2018 AL MVP, former MLB Player of the Year and 2018 World Series champion Mookie Betts to an […]