On the heels of what many are calling the single worst Dodgers loss of the 2024 regular season (or longer), Dodger fans received some much-needed good news late Saturday evening. After suffering their horrific bottom-of-the-10th-inning 11-9 walk-off loss to the AL Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers at a sold out Comerica Park on Saturday afternoon, a […]
(Read More)No Surprise Here
If you had been asked who you thought would be the first Dodger player to make a donation in support of the massive firefighting efforts in Los Angeles right now, chances are exceptionally good that your answer would have been 35-year-old Dodgers future Hall of Fame first baseman Freddie Freeman – and you would have […]
Great Scott!
* * * * * * * Four years, $80 million! Those are the reported contract numbers that 30-year-old free agent southpaw reliever Tanner Scott is seeking to sign with a MLB team. While that may be Scott’s starting point in negotiations, it isn’t an unreasonable expectation considering that MLB is going through […]
All Is Well in the Universe
Early Friday afternoon, the Dodgers officially announced that they had re-signed extremely popular 32-year-old outfielder/designated hitter Teoscar Hernández to a three-year/$66 million contract extension that will keep him in Dodger Blue through the 2027 season. “I was going to do everything in my power to come back. For me, money wasn’t an issue,” the Cotui, Dominican […]
Waiting on Roki Sasaki
Why are January 15 and 23, 2025 dates important to the Dodgers completing their roster for the upcoming MLB season? January 15 is the first day of the 2025 international signing period when all MLB teams reset their respective bonus pools. Signing before the 15th greatly reduces Roki Sasaki’s earning potential as a posted NPB […]
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‘We Won a Game Yesterday’
July 13th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka * * * * * * * A great scene from a timeless classic and appropriate for the recently struggling National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers, who snapped their four-game losing streak with a thrilling 4-3 win over the American League Central fourth-place Detroit Tigers on Friday. After yet another shaky start […]
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Is Ohtani Broken?
July 12th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani is good for baseball. If you don’t think so, just check the attendance numbers whenever the visiting Dodgers roll into town and the number of cellphone cameras that come out whenever he steps up to the plate. And though baseball fans across the country will never admit it out loud […]
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Dodgers Lose One In The Lights
July 11th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka The NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers lost their second consecutive game to the NL East first-place Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday evening on what should have been a routine pop fly to center field but instead turned into a fifth-inning leadoff triple by Phillies left fielder Whit Merrifield when 23-year-old Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages […]
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Miller Trending In Wrong Direction
July 10th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Twenty-five-year-old Dodgers right-hander Bobby Miller has appeared in six games this season, all starts, including Tuesday’s ugly 10-1 loss to the National League Central first-place Milwaukee Brewers. He has tossed a combined 25.0 innings and has faced 109 opposing batters. He has allowed 17 runs on 25 hits, which includes five home runs. He has […]
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Dodgers Open ‘The Big One’
July 9th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Although the National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers went 3-3 on their just-concluded six-game homestand by dropping two of three to their division-rival third-place Arizona Diamondbacks and taking two of three from the NL Central place-first Milwaukee Brewers, there are some, many, in fact, who believe that the team considered among the best in […]
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The 20-Percenters
July 8th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka By now, every Dodger fan is well aware that their beloved team is sending six players to the 2024 MLB All-Star Game, which will be held on Tuesday, July 16, at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX. It is the highest number of representatives of all 30 MLB teams, topping the Cleveland Guardians’ five and […]
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Another Day – Another Ohtani Record
July 7th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It seems like nearly every day Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani sets, ties, or breaks some kind of Dodgers, National League, or MLB record. In Saturday’s 5-3 win over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 50,086, the 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native did this: Ironically (and poetically), Ohtani pulled […]
(Read More) Friday’s ‘Other’ Heroes
July 6th, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka Friday’s 8-5 Dodgers win over the visiting National League Central first place Milwaukee Brewers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 49,885 will forever be remembered as ‘The Will Smith Game,’ and rightfully so. All the 29-year-old Louisville, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2016 out of the University of Louisville did was […]
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Dodgers Lose More Than Game
July 5th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Although no one knew it at the time, when 34-year-old Dodgers right fielder Jason Heyward tried to rob former Dodger Joc Pederson of his first-inning two-out solo home run to right-center field in Thursday’s ugly 9-3 loss to the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,320, he suffered […]
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