There are few things in baseball more exciting than a bottom-of-the-ninth walk-off home run … as long as it’s your team that does the walking off, of course. On Saturday night, there was a brief moment where Dodger fans – and even the batter himself, 25-year-old reigning National League MVP Cody Bellinger – honestly didn’t […]
(Read More)Something Ain’t Right
Although there has been no official word from the team (yet), it appeared from his very first pitch on Thursday evening that something wasn’t quite right with 26-year-old Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who the Dodgers signed to an enormous international free agent contract back on December 27, 2023 to the tune of 12 years at […]
Dodgers Lose Another Winnable Game
In what seems like a growing trend, the Dodgers lost another should-have-won game on Tuesday, this one a 10th-inning 5-4 loss to the NL East last place Miami Marlins at LoanDepot Park in Miami. As he has now done in his last several relief appearances, 38-year-old (that’s not a typo) Dodgers right-hander Luis García turned […]
Living Up To The Hype
It is a quote (cliché) attributed to NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi that we’ve all heard dozens of times in our respective lives: “Act like you’ve been here before” Dodgers rookie sensation Hyeseong Kim acted like he’d “…been here before” when he made his major league debut with Dodgers against the Miami Marlins […]
Time to Hang It Up?
There comes a time in every baseball player’s life to hang up their bat, glove, and cleats. For some, it comes early when they struggle in Little League and decide to pursue other interests. For others, the time comes at higher levels of the sport – travel ball, high school, college, or the professional minor […]
It’s (Not) Gonna Be May
It’s Baaaack, and it happens every year right about now – the meme from the 1995 pop boy band NSYNC, in which lead vocalist Justin Timberlake insists that he said “It’s gonna be me,” not “It’s gonna be May” – this despite it sounding very much like the latter. Unfortunately for 27-year-old Dodgers right-hander Dustin […]
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Dodgers 2020 Trade Deadline
August 22nd, 2020 at 8:00 am 
by 0799291000348 The weeks leading up to the annual Major League Baseball trade deadline are usually a busy period for the Dodgers president of baseball operations, Andrew Friedman and his staff. How to enhance the team’s roster for the postseason push? Which prospects are considered untouchable? How much increase in payroll will Dodgers owner Mark Walter allow? […]
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Smith Expected to Return to Lineup on Sunday
August 21st, 2020 at 6:00 pm by Ron Cervenka During his pregame Zoom media scrum on Friday afternoon, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked if he had an update Dodgers catcher Will Smith, who was placed on the injured list on August 15 (retroactive to August 13) with neck inflammation. “Will took four at-bats today at the secondary site and felt good, had a […]
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“Vintage Kershaw”
August 21st, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was like stepping out of a time machine. Back to a time when you could still buy a gallon of gasoline for under $3.00 (if you looked hard enough). Back to a time when you still saw an occasional flip phone being used. Back to a time when In-N-Out Burger opened their first two […]
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Should the DH Stay or Go?
August 20th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Wednesday night’s painful 6-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in the Pacific Northwest was the 26th game of the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season for the Dodgers. In other words, their season is now exactly 43.33% completed, with 34 regular-season games remaining. In each of those 26 games, the designated hitter rule has been […]
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Speed Kills … And Wins
August 19th, 2020 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes got off to a horrible start to the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season. Things had gotten so bad for the 30-year-old Fullerton, CA native and ninth-round draft pick by the Florida Marlins in 2011 draft out of Arizona State University that on August 8, he was hitting a team-low .091. …and then Dodgers […]
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Seager Homers … Both of Them
August 18th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was sincere and straightforward; something you would expect one brother to say about another on an opposing team: “I hope he goes out and has four hits tonight and we still win.” It was said almost prophetically by 26-year-old Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager about his older brother Kyle Seager, the 32-year-old All-Star/Gold Glove third […]
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Keibert Ruiz Joins Exclusive Fraternity
August 17th, 2020 at 9:00 am by 0799291000348 Since 1887, there have been only 126 players to hit a home run during their first Major League Baseball at-bat. Six Dodgers had accomplished the rare feat, but only two since the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958: Pitcher Clise Dudley – April 27, 1929 (first pitch) Shortstop Gordon Slade – May […]
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Get That Ball!
August 17th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka In addition to being the very best of the very best at their trade, Major League Baseball players are also the biggest fans of the game. One need look no further than Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner to confirm this. Over the past two weeks, the extremely popular Dodger fan-favorite twice asked for the ball […]
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Dodgers Steal Win Without an At-Bat
August 16th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was bound to happen sooner or later with MLB’s new ‘automatic-runner-on-second-base-to-begin-extra-innings’ rule – a run scores without an official at-bat. It happened on Saturday night for the Dodgers in their second such game under the new rule, but not in the manner which you might have thought it would. That would have been a […]
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