The Great Lakes Loons most likely had a better night’s sleep Sunday night than they did on Saturday night. The Loons traveled all the way from Bowling Green, Kentucky after their Saturday game with the Hod Rods, arriving home in Midland, Michigan at 8:30 am. After a period of rest, they had to report to […]

The Great Lakes Loons earned a berth in the second round of the Eastern Division playoffs in the Midwest League with a tense 5-2 win over the ever dangerous Bowling Green Hot Rods on Saturday. The game may have marked the coming of age for the youthful Loons who rebounded from their loss on Friday […]

The Great Lakes Loons entered their winner-take-all playoff game with the Tampa Bay Rays affiliate Bowling Green Hot Rods on Saturday having experienced the best they had to offer and – well – the other side of the equation. On Thursday they had rolled over Bowling Green 15-1 but followed up that record breaking performance […]

On Thursday afternoon – in the completion of a playoff game suspended on Wednesday because of rain – the Great Lakes Loons had their way with the Bowling Green Hot Rods. The game on the previous day had been suspended in the bottom of the fourth inning with the Loons leading the Hot Rods 3-0. […]

The Great Lakes Loons became the Dodgers Class-A affiliate in 2007 YCK; that is, in the Year of Clayton Kershaw. The Dodgers, in a surprise move, brought their affiliate from Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida to Midland, Michigan to begin the 2007 season. The Loons during their ten-year span in Midland have made the […]

While most of the Dodgers non-Kershaw, non-Puig news has been centered around top right-handed pitching prospect Jose De Leon making his major league debut with the Dodgers on Sunday, there will be another of the franchise’s top pitching prospect also making a debut of sorts on Sunday afternoon. Twenty-two-year-old Long Beach, California native and recently named Texas League […]

The Dodgers have named right-handed pitcher Brock Stewart as the Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher of the Year and infielder Edwin Rios as the Minor League Player of the Year. Stewart, who will turn 25 on October 3, completed a meteoric rise from Single-A to the big leagues this season, becoming the first Dodger since […]

When the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes won the 2015 California League Championship last September it was the first time they had done so since becoming the Dodgers Advanced Single-A affiliate in 2011 and they did so in grand fashion by sweeping the ever-powerful San Jose Giants in three games. But as happens even spring, they began […]

In the past two weeks the Dodgers have continued to search for and sign minor league players – especially pitchers – from independent leagues or as undrafted free agents.   Roy Merritt The 30-year- old Merritt was signed by the Dodgers on August 24. He had been having a stellar season with the Sugar Land […]

The Great Lakes Loons of the Class-A Midwest League are in a stretch run for a playoff berth. They are presently in a life and death struggle with the Lansing Lugnuts and lead the Lugnuts by one full game in the race for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Division of the league. The […]