It is an image that will remain etched in the hearts and minds of Dodger fans for a very log time. It is the image of 25-year-old Dodgers right-hander Brusdar Graterol being helped off the field by teammate Kiké Hernández and Dodgers head trainer Thomas Albert with tears in his eyes after suffering an injury […]
(Read More)The Hottest Ticket In Town
On Sunday evening, the NL West first place Los Angeles Dodgers announced (via social media) that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani would be making his Dodgers pitching debut against the NL West third place San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium on Monday evening. As you might expect, this announcement had cellphones buzzing and chirping like […]
A Good Day
It’s been a long row to hoe, but if Saturday’s 11-5 Dodgers win over the hated division-rival San Francisco Giants is any indication, it is abundantly clear that 37-year-old Dodgers future first ballot Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw is back to his old self. The Dallas, TX native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in […]
Biggest Series of the Season?
The Dodgers will enter this weekend’s three-game series against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium exactly 1.0 games ahead of … the San Francisco Giants. Although the Dodgers will have 90 regular-season games remaining following Sunday’s series finale against The Hated Ones, the significance of this series cannot be understated or ignored. In other […]
Haters Gonna Hate
Following the Dodgers ugly 11-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday, @MLB Now posted this on social media (X.com): No seriously, they really did. Although @MLBNow is a reputable social media site, there may be some – perhaps even many – who see this as yet another anti-Dodgers post. The cold hard truth […]
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Bigger Than Baseball
August 6th, 2024 at 9:06 am 
by Ron Cervenka By now, every Dodger and baseball fan on the planet is well aware of the medical condition (Guillain-Barre syndrome) that three-year-old Maximus Freeman, son of Dodgers first baseman and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Freddie Freeman, is dealing with, so I won’t belabor that issue. But what absolutely bears repeating is the incredible show of […]
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Reality Check
August 5th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka When the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers left town on July 29 for their (thankfully) just-concluded eight-game/three-city road trip that took them through Houston, San Diego, and Oakland, they did so with a relatively comfortable 6.5-game lead over the NL West second-place San Diego Padres, a 7.0-game lead over the third-place Arizona Diamondbacks, a […]
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Do Dodgers Have A New Ace?
August 4th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka When Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman acquired 28-year-old right-hander Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for minor leaguers Thayron Liranzo and Trey Sweeney this past Tuesday, it probably caused a good number of Dodgers fans to say: “Who?” With the Tigers, the Burbank, CA native and first-round draft pick in 2014 by the […]
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First Beaten By Worst
August 3rd, 2024 at 9:15 am by Ron Cervenka It’s getting old – fast. Although 2024 Dodgers All-Stars Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández continue to play at the level that made them All-Stars, the rest of the Dodgers lineup is at – or below – mediocre; in several cases well below mediocre. During Friday’s ugly come-from-ahead 6-5 loss by the NL West first-place Los […]
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Is The Unthinkable Looming?
August 1st, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka No one wants to say it – or even think it – but perhaps it is time. In his second start since undergoing glenohumeral ligaments and capsule surgery on his left shoulder on November 3, 2023, 36-year-old Dodgers future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw had what was clearly one of his worst starts since […]
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Inexcusable
July 31st, 2024 at 10:15 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers scored five runs in the top of the first inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on Tuesday evening … and lost. That was not only inexcusable for a team considered by many to be among the best in the game this season, it was downright embarrassing. After leading off the […]
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Dodgers Make Trade Deadline Moves
July 30th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Late Monday evening, the Dodgers announced several roster moves in advance of Tuesday’s 6 PM (ET) MLB trade deadline. * * * Coming to the Dodgers are: AND… Twenty-eight-year-old right-hander Michael Kopech, a first-round draft pick in 2014 out of Mount Pleasant High School in Mount Pleasant, TX by the Boston Red Sox and […]
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Stay Mad, Dodgers
July 29th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It didn’t take Dodger fans long to realize that their beloved team wasn’t too happy about having lost their first two games to the much-hated Houston Astros on Friday and Saturday during Sunday’s series finale at Orange Juice Park, although it did take them until the top of the fifth inning to put the game’s […]
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A Bullpen Meltdown of Epic Proportions
July 28th, 2024 at 8:30 am by Ron Cervenka The numbers tell the entire story: Although just-turned 24-year-old (on July 14) Dodgers starting left-hander Justin Wrobleski allowed two of those seven runs in the Dodgers ugly come-from-ahead 7-6 loss to the Houston Astros on Saturday evening, he absolutely positively pitched well enough to – and deserved to – win his first career Major League […]
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