Although 32-year-old Dodgers right-hander Blake Snell needed 30 pitches to the four Seattle Mariners batters he faced in his 2025 Spring Training – and Dodgers – debut on Tuesday afternoon, 20 of those were strikes. The Seattle, WA native and first-round draft pick in 2011 by the Tampa Bay Rays out of Shorewood High School […]
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It’s Still Early
February 25th, 2025 at 9:30 am 
by Ron Cervenka It’s something that we hear often this time of year: “Spring Training games are meaningless games,” and “It’s still early.” But what’s ironic is that you rarely (if ever) hear it from fans of teams that are atop their respective Spring Training leagues, be it the Grapefruit League or the Cactus League. By the same […]
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The Force Be With May
February 24th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka The last time 27-year-old Dodgers right-hander Dustin May threw a pitch in an MLB game was on May 17, 2023. That was 20 months ago – or 90.4 weeks ago – or 648 days ago. On Sunday afternoon in front of a Camelback Ranch crowd of 12,235, the Justin, TX native and Dodgers third round draft […]
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Too Close For Comfort
February 21st, 2025 at 8:45 am by Ron Cervenka It wasn’t a ball or strike close call, or a safe or out close call. It was a brush-with-death close call, and it was absolutely terrifying for anyone who saw it in person at Camelback Ranch, watched it live on SportsNet LA, or saw it later on every major news channel. It was a 106-MPH line-drive […]
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At Least There Was This…
February 21st, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka One down … MANY to go. Play Ball! * * * * * *
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There’s a Dodger Game Today!
February 20th, 2025 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka This: Play Ball! * * * * * *
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Dodgers in Everyone’s Sights
February 16th, 2025 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka On Saturday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed what Dodger fans have known since 1883: “There’s going to be a target on our back, and we have to show up day in, day out, improve every single day in any way that we can,” Roberts told reporters following his team’s first full-squad workout of Spring Training […]
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May Return For Ohtani in Jeopardy
February 15th, 2025 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka During their respective Spring Training media scrums this past week, both Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman and Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts hinted that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani could be ready to return to action “sometime in May” – this following his most recent shoulder surgery on November 5, 2024. “We’re going to […]
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‘I’m a Dodger’
February 14th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka By now, every Dodger – and baseball – fan on the planet is aware that soon-to-be (on March 17) 37 year-old future first-ballot Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw has (thankfully) re-signed with the Dodgers – the only MLB team he has ever played for. On Thursday, it was (very) widely reported that the extremely […]
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‘It’s What Kersh Does’
February 12th, 2025 at 10:30 am by Ron Cervenka It’s probably safe to say that a good many Dodgers fans were pretty confident that future first ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw was going to re-sign with the only team he has ever known – the one that drafted him in the first round (seventh overall) in 2006 out of Highland Park High School […]
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