Friday’s game between the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and the AL West first-place Houston Astros was over before it started. About an hour before first pitch, the Dodgers reported that All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman had been scratched from the starting lineup and had left Minute Maid Ballpark to fly back to Los […]
(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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Vintage Kershaw
July 26th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka The last time 36-year-old Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw pitched in a regular season Major League game was against the San Francisco Giants on September 30, 2023 at Pac Bell AT&T Oracle Park, and the very last time he pitched was in Game-1 of the 2023 NLDS on October 7, 2023 against the Arizona Diamondbacks at […]
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Glasnow’s ‘Stuff’
July 25th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka In his first start since returning from the injured list for back tightness, 30-year-old Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow was… well… not good, this despite Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ claim to the contrary. “I think the stuff was good. Certainly, the command was not there,” Roberts told reporters following his team’s ugly 8-3 loss to the […]
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Teo-3 Giants-2
July 23rd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka If you are not on board the Teoscar Hernández train by now, you probably never will be. In Monday’s 3-2 Dodgers win over their much-disliked NL West division rival San Francisco Giants in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 49,576, the 31-year-old Cotui, Dominican Republic native, two-time All-Star, and 2024 Home Run Derby champion drove […]
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Ohtani Has (Almost) Left the Building
July 22nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka After a rough top of the first inning in which he allowed a double and a two-run home run on his first three pitches, 35-year-old Dodgers left-hander James Paxton settled in nicely, to finish his 5.0-inning start with a final line of three runs on five hits with four walks and seven strikeouts en route […]
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Best News of the Season
July 21st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Moments after their team’s exciting 11-inning 7-6 walk-off win over the Boston Red Sox in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 48,129 on Friday evening, Dodger fans received the best news of the season: The news comes one day after Kershaw completed his third rehab start following his November 3, 2023 surgery to repair […]
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Oops
July 20th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It immediately became another “Remember the time…” moment in Dodgers history. With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, his team up 1-0, and with runners on second and third, former Dodger and current Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora elected to have 32-year-old Valencia, CA native left-hander Brennan Bernardino intentionally walk Dodgers […]
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The One That Got Away.
July 20th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka In his 10 seasons as the Dodgers President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman has been responsible for the acquisition of some of the best players to ever wear a Dodger uniform, either by trade, free agency, via the MLB draft, or homegrown through one of the best farm systems in the game today. For those […]
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Improbable to Plausible Trades
July 19th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Jesse Pearce As the 2024 MLB trade deadline (6:00 PM ET, July 30) draws closer, we read more and more suppositions regarding Dodgers trade targets. More pitching, adding another outfielder, perhaps a middle infielder. Some baseball experts think the team may make a couple of significant deals before the deadline as they prepare for the stretch drive […]
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Ohtani Gives Fans What They Came To See
July 17th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was textbook, and for Dodger fans, entirely expected. In the top of the third inning of Tuesday’s 2024 MLB All-Star Game at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX, 30-year-old Dodgers designated hitter and international superstar Shohei Ohtani hit a 400-foot three-run home run to right-center field to give the National League a (then) 3-0 […]
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