In Wednesday’s game between the National League West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and the NL West third-place Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 47,965, the Dodgers sent eight men to the plate in the bottom of the first inning. Four of them scored on four hits, including back-to-back home runs by […]
(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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Welcome Home!
July 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Tuesday’s 6-5 Dodgers ninth-inning walk-off win over the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium to kickoff a six-game homestand ranks right up there as among the most exciting games of the 2024 regular season. Not only did the 52,931 on hand at the Ravine (at least those who didn’t leave […]
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Bring Your Hungry to Dodger Stadium
July 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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’
July 1st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Rojas Drives In Four In Dodgers Rout of Giants
June 30th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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It’s Time
June 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Stone ‘Goes the Distance’
June 27th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka * * * “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 […]
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And the (Game-Winning) Hits Just Keep On Coming
June 26th, 2024 at 10:02 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Kershaw Rehab Shut Down
June 25th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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, […]
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Ohtani Nearing 2-Mile Mark
June 24th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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