Returning home after a 4-2 road trip that took them through Chicago, where they swept the White Sox, and San Francisco, where they took one of three from the Giants, the Dodgers return to Dodger Stadium for a six-game homestand, with three against the NL West third-place division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks and three against the NL […]
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‘You’re Not Going To Pitch Well Every Game’
If you missed Sunday’s series finale between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, you are among the lucky ones. Following Saturday’s 14-7 shellacking of The Hated Ones, the other Dodgers showed up on Sunday afternoon, mustering only four runs and eight hits to the Giants 10 runs and 16 hits. “The bullpen’s […]
(Read More)Rojas Drives In Four In Dodgers Rout of Giants
Whenever the Dodgers play the Giants, whether at Dodger Stadium or at Oracle Park, you can count on one thing – it will not be uneventful between two of baseball’s oldest and fiercest rivals. There is no greater example of this than Saturday’s thrilling 14-7 Dodgers win over ‘The Hated Ones.’ And though a final […]
(Read More)It’s Time
It’s one of those things that no one wants to say out load but everyone is thinking: utility infielder and Dodgers pro tem third baseman Cavan Biggio has got to go. There. I said it out loud. To be brutally honest, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman never should have traded 23-year-old minor league […]
(Read More)Stone ‘Goes the Distance’
* * * “Gavin Stone goes the distance in an era when nobody does.” * * * * Remember those words, folks. They were spoken by SportsNet LA’s Joe Davis following Wednesday’s 4-0 complete game shutout of the Chicago White Sox by 25-year-old Dodgers right-hander Gavin Stone in front of a sold out […]
(Read More)And the (Game-Winning) Hits Just Keep On Coming
Let’s be real here. If you are a baseball fan, regardless of who your favorite team is, and you are not on-board the Shohei Ohtani train yet, you are not a true baseball fan, period. At risk of redundancy, the soon-to-be (on July 5) 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native is our generation’s Babe Ruth … perhaps even […]
(Read More)Kershaw Rehab Shut Down
It is news that every Dodger fan has been dreading but wasn’t entirely unexpected. Prior to his team’s rain-delayed 3-0 shutout of the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on Monday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts broke this news: “You go through surgery, you go through rehab, you start throwing, you ramp up velocity, workload, […]
(Read More)Ohtani Nearing 2-Mile Mark
For those old enough to remember, back when cigarette commercials were still allowed on television, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company made famous the slogan “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” In fact, it’s even in the Smithsonian. Sorry, R.J., you don’t measure up to Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani. In fact, you’re about ‘a […]
(Read More)Angels-3 – Ohtani-2
International superstar Shohei Ohtani gave 51,841 Dodgers fans exactly what they came to Dodger Stadium to see on Friday night – his 22nd home run of the season against his former team, the Angels of Anaheim – in Game-1 of what will eventually be four interleague games with their cross-county rivals, affectionately dubbed ‘The Freeway […]
(Read More)Kershaw Getting Closer
As the NL West first place Dodgers were being walked off by the NL West last place Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on Wednesday evening, 36-year-old Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw made his first of what is expected to be several minor league rehab starts, this one with the team’s […]
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