The Dodgers have played 33 games thus far into the 2024 regular season. Twenty-three-year-old La Habana, Cuba native Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages has appeared in 14 of them and is 16-for-55 (.291), with five doubles and three home runs, which ranks seventh and sixth on the team respectively. He has also driven in 10 runs […]
(Read More)The Force Be With May
The last time 27-year-old Dodgers right-hander Dustin May threw a pitch in an MLB game was on May 17, 2023. That was 20 months ago – or 90.4 weeks ago – or 648 days ago. On Sunday afternoon in front of a Camelback Ranch crowd of 12,235, the Justin, TX native and Dodgers third round draft […]
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 […]
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Buehler’s Back!
May 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Dodgers beat writer Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic posted this on social media following the Dodgers 8-0 pounding of the division-rival Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Wednesday night: Needless to say, the return of the 29-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first round draft pick in 2015 out of Vanderbilt University to the Dodgers starting rotation […]
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The Real Culprit
May 1st, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka It’s tough to bag on the Dodgers when they are standing in first place in the NL West 4.0 games ahead of the second-place San Francisco Giants, 4.5 games ahead of the tied-for-third-place San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks, and 10.5 games ahead of the last place Colorado Rockies. However, (come on – you knew […]
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Dodgers Pull Off Rare Feat
April 30th, 2024 at 8:04 am by Ron Cervenka On August 28, 2006, the Dodgers did something that ranks right up there as among the rarest of feats in Major League Baseball, perhaps second only to pitching a perfect game. On that warm August evening in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 44,176, Grady Little‘s Dodgers had zero strikeouts in their combined 39 […]
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
April 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It’s a saying that we’ve all heard (or said) many times in out lives – “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” (along with the similar saying “Close, but no cigar”), but they most certainly do not count in the game of baseball. With his team trailing 3-1 and with two outs and the […]
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Be Careful What You (Boo) For
April 27th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
(Read More)Money Well Spent?
April 26th, 2024 at 11:34 am by Ron Cervenka Needless to say, when the Dodgers signed 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a MLB record-setting 12-year/$315.8 million contract on December 27, 2023, it left many (most) Dodgers fans both surprised and shocked. Oh sure, it’s easy to say “It ain’t my money,” but in truth, it actually is. I mean, have you paid to park […]
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Let the Kids Play
April 25th, 2024 at 11:30 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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‘She Is Gone!’
April 24th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Welcome Back!
April 23rd, 2024 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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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