It’s getting old – fast. Although 2024 Dodgers All-Stars Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández continue to play at the level that made them All-Stars, the rest of the Dodgers lineup is at – or below – mediocre; in several cases well below mediocre. During Friday’s ugly come-from-ahead 6-5 loss by the NL West first-place Los […]
(Read More)Too Close For Comfort
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 […]
Dodgers in Everyone’s Sights
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 […]
May Return For Ohtani in Jeopardy
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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Is The Unthinkable Looming?
August 1st, 2024 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka No one wants to say it – or even think it – but perhaps it is time. In his second start since undergoing glenohumeral ligaments and capsule surgery on his left shoulder on November 3, 2023, 36-year-old Dodgers future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw had what was clearly one of his worst starts since […]
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Inexcusable
July 31st, 2024 at 10:15 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers scored five runs in the top of the first inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on Tuesday evening … and lost. That was not only inexcusable for a team considered by many to be among the best in the game this season, it was downright embarrassing. After leading off the […]
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Dodgers Make Trade Deadline Moves
July 30th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Late Monday evening, the Dodgers announced several roster moves in advance of Tuesday’s 6 PM (ET) MLB trade deadline. * * * Coming to the Dodgers are: AND… Twenty-eight-year-old right-hander Michael Kopech, a first-round draft pick in 2014 out of Mount Pleasant High School in Mount Pleasant, TX by the Boston Red Sox and […]
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Stay Mad, Dodgers
July 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It didn’t take Dodger fans long to realize that their beloved team wasn’t too happy about having lost their first two games to the much-hated Houston Astros on Friday and Saturday during Sunday’s series finale at Orange Juice Park, although it did take them until the top of the fifth inning to put the game’s […]
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A Bullpen Meltdown of Epic Proportions
July 28th, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka The numbers tell the entire story: Although just-turned 24-year-old (on July 14) Dodgers starting left-hander Justin Wrobleski allowed two of those seven runs in the Dodgers ugly come-from-ahead 7-6 loss to the Houston Astros on Saturday evening, he absolutely positively pitched well enough to – and deserved to – win his first career Major League […]
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Freeman-less Dodgers Fall to Astros
July 27th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Friday’s game between the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and the AL West first-place Houston Astros was over before it started. About an hour before first pitch, the Dodgers reported that All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman had been scratched from the starting lineup and had left Minute Maid Ballpark to fly back to Los […]
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Vintage Kershaw
July 26th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka The last time 36-year-old Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw pitched in a regular season Major League game was against the San Francisco Giants on September 30, 2023 at Pac Bell AT&T Oracle Park, and the very last time he pitched was in Game-1 of the 2023 NLDS on October 7, 2023 against the Arizona Diamondbacks at […]
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Glasnow’s ‘Stuff’
July 25th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka In his first start since returning from the injured list for back tightness, 30-year-old Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow was… well… not good, this despite Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ claim to the contrary. “I think the stuff was good. Certainly, the command was not there,” Roberts told reporters following his team’s ugly 8-3 loss to the […]
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Teo-3 Giants-2
July 23rd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka If you are not on board the Teoscar Hernández train by now, you probably never will be. In Monday’s 3-2 Dodgers win over their much-disliked NL West division rival San Francisco Giants in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 49,576, the 31-year-old Cotui, Dominican Republic native, two-time All-Star, and 2024 Home Run Derby champion drove […]
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