Being in first place 15 games into the new season is nice, but it is certainly not indicative of how the 2024 regular season will ultimately play out. However, this week’s nine-game home stand with three against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres, three against the NL East fourth-place Washington Nationals, and three against […]
(Read More)Be Careful What You (Boo) For
This past off-season before it was officially announced – on social media – that the Dodgers had signed superstar future Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year/$700-million contract, there were reports – on social media – that the extremely popular 29-year-old Oshu, Japan native had boarded a plane and was en route to Toronto, Canada […]
Let the Kids Play
Good thinks happen when you let the kids play. In his second start of the season on Wednesday afternoon against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, 26-year-old Dodgers right-hander Landon Knack allowed two runs on two hits, while walking three and striking out five in the Dodgers 11-2 win to earn his first Major League […]
‘She Is Gone!’
It is a phrase that Dodger fans love to hear: “She is gone!” It is, of course, a phrase made popular by Hall of Fame Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully to describe a Dodger home run and is still used today by many (most) radio and television baseball broadcasters. On Tuesday evening, extremely popular Dodgers designated […]
Welcome Back!
The Dodgers have played exactly 24 games and are 13-11 (.542) thus far into the 2024 regular season – good enough to hold a 0.5-game lead over the 13-12 (.520) San Diego Padres for first place in the National League West. As you may recall, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team got off to a blazing […]
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The Other Sure Thing
April 11th, 2024 at 8:30 am 
by Ron Cervenka We have long been told that there are only two sure things in life – death and taxes. Make that three. “It seems like every time you look up, he’s on base,” former Dodger great and current Dodgers broadcast Rick Monday said, after future Hall of Famer Mookie Betts singled to right on the second […]
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It’s Broke
April 10th, 2024 at 3:00 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s one of the earliest sayings we learned as kids: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” A quick look at Dodgers right-hander Alex Vesia‘s stats 15 games into the 2024 season confirms he is broke. In his last two appearances on April 9 and 10 against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field, the Alpine, CA […]
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Another Day, Another Multi-Hit Game
April 9th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka I’ll get right to the point: “Shohei has continued to swing a hot bat, and, you know, if he can continue to go to the middle of the field and go back-side, which he did tonight, he’s tough to beat,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of our generation’s Babe Ruth, following his team’s 4-2 win […]
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
April 8th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka There wasn’t much Good and a whole lot of Bad in Sunday’s Ugly 8-1 Dodgers loss to the Chicago Cubs at an absolutely drenched Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon – a game which should have never even started and was finally suspended with one out in the bottom of the fourth inning. But for as […]
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Thanks. We Needed That
April 7th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka To say that 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto got off to a bit of a rough start after signing his 12 year/$325 million contract with the Dodgers on December 27, 2023 would be extremely kind. Truth be told, after signing the longest and most lucrative contract in Major League Baseball history (so far), and after his […]
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Miller Struggles in Homecoming
April 5th, 2024 at 7:00 pm by Trevor Jackson On Friday, the Dodgers opened their weekend series with the Chicago Cubs on a windy, 45-degree afternoon. The first traditional road trip kicked off with quick traffic on the Dodgers base paths, highlighted by a 2-run single from Teoscar Hernández. Bobby Miller was on the mound for the Dodgers on Friday afternoon, with over 30 […]
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That’s One
April 4th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It took nine games and 37 official at-bats, but on Wednesday night in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,746, highly touted superstar designated hitter Shohei Ohtani finally hit his first home run in a Dodgers uniform, and man did he crush it. “Honestly, very relieved that I was able to hit […]
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5 and 1,500 for 50
April 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Thirty-one-year-old Dodgers infielder Mookie Betts slugged his team-leading fifth home run of the season on Tuesday night, a 407-foot solo blast into the Left Field Pavilion at Dodger Stadium off of San Francisco Giants right-hander Logan Webb, to tie the game at 2-2. But as anyone watching or listening to game quickly learned, it was […]
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The Trade-off
April 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka “I faced him once in the past,” Hernández told SportsNet LA’s Kirsten Watson of Rogers postgame. “I was looking for something that I could just put the ball in play with men on first and third with one out. I was trying to get that run that was at third and I just put a […]
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