The Dodgers aren’t the only team with a 4-game winning streak right now. The organization’s Advanced Single-A affiliate Rancho Cucamonga Quakes are following in their parent team’s footsteps as they, too, have won four straight. In what has seemingly become a pattern (and a very good one to have), the Quakes won their fourth consecutive game […]
(Read More)Strap In and Hang On
Here’s the deal. Between Friday, June 6 and Thursday, June 19, the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers will play 16 games, with a scheduled off day on Thursday, June 12. Of those 16 games, seven will be against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres – the first three at Petco Park June 9-11, […]
What’s Missing?
The Dodgers are tenuously holding on to first place in the National League’s Western Division, they are loaded with talent – four players are legit candidates for the Hall of Fame. But, there are too many games where fans watch uninspired Dodgers baseball. Foolish errors of omission and commission, hitters flailing away at pitches as […]
Muncy Reaches Milestone
Hitting 200 home runs is a highly respected and significant accomplishment over the course of a Major League career, which, of course, means hitting 201 is even better. During Saturday’s 18-2 pounding of the AL East first-place New York Yankees by the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd […]
Hollywood Stuff
It was as if they had read it from a Hollywood script – and it was epic. With one out and on the third pitch that New York Yankees right fielder and future Hall of Famer Aaron Judge saw from struggling Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin (an 89.7-MPH slider right down Broadway, no pun intended), the […]
Dodgers Make Head-Scratching Move
To say that the Dodgers bullpen is a mess would be a gross understatement. As we all painfully witnessed in Wednesday’s ugly loss to the AL Central second-place Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field, 30-year-old Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott not only blew the save of what should have been future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw‘s first […]
Down on the Farm – Quakes Win 4th Straight with (another) Joc Pederson Walk-Off Hit
August 16th, 2012 at 10:39 am 
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Down on the Farm – Yasiel Puig Makes Debut with Quakes in 9-8 Win Over Ports
August 15th, 2012 at 2:03 am by Ron Cervenka A four-run seventh inning helped the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes to an exciting 9-8 come from behind win over the Stockton Ports (Athletics) on Tuesday night at the Epicenter. It was the third straight win for the Quakes, who are desperately trying to capture a Wild Card berth in the Cal League playoffs. Rehabbing Dodger Ted […]
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You Gotta Have Heart
August 14th, 2012 at 6:16 am by Harold Uhlman Several times a year on ThinkBlueLA, we get into a bit of a debate over “heart.” That is, if our boys are playing with heart, playing half- heartedly, or without heart. I expect that we may vary in our definitions of “heart”, as it is an intangible quality on a baseball team, but probably we […]
(Read More)Dodgers Place Jerry Hairston Jr. on DL – Recall Elian Herrera
August 13th, 2012 at 2:23 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have placed IF/OF Jerry Hairston Jr. on the 15-day disabled list with left hip inflammation (retroactive to August 12) and recalled IF/OF Elian Herrera from Triple-A Albuquerque. Hairston was hitting .273 (65-for-238) with four home runs and 26 RBI and has made starts at second base (26), third base (23) and left field […]
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Jinxed
August 13th, 2012 at 8:09 am by Ron Cervenka As it always does, Sunday’s almost no-hitter by Dodger left-hander Chris Capuano once again brought up the spirited (but tongue-in-cheek) debate among the regulars on the ThinkBlueLA.com forum about uttering the words “no-hitter” when one is in progress, thereby jinxing it. (The no-hitter non-talk begins on page-3 of the game chat). I say spirited because […]
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The Dodgers Magic Number is .600
August 12th, 2012 at 7:09 am by Ron Cervenka After Saturday night’s painful 7-3 loss to the Miami Marlins, I happened to catch the final segment of the DodgerTalk post-game show with Keven Kennedy and David Vassegh. During the segment, Vassegh asked Kennedy the $64,000 Question – Can the Dodgers still win the NL West? Without hesitation, Kennedy answered “Absolutely, but they will have to […]
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A Fine Line
August 11th, 2012 at 1:46 pm by Ron Cervenka In every professional sport there is often a fine line between winning and losing. Oh sure, there is the occasional blowout, which is great when it’s your team doing the blowing out, but not so great when it’s the other way around; and of course baseball is no exception. The line between winning and losing […]
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Finally! The Truth about Scoreboard Watching!
August 10th, 2012 at 11:53 am by Ron Cervenka For years I have always gotten a huge laugh out of managers, players and coaches who adamantly deny that they scoreboard watch during the stretch run. So ridiculous are their denials that I almost expect their noses to grow when they say this. I mean really, there isn’t a fan anywhere who actually buys their […]
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The Cat with 9 Lives Survives Again
August 9th, 2012 at 11:12 am by Ron Cervenka There is only one person on the entire planet who hasn’t come to grips with the fact that the Juan Uribe experiment has failed – and miserably. Fortunately for Uribe (but unfortunately for Jerry Sands, Tony Gwynn Jr., Elian Herrera, Justin Sellers, Josh Fields and millions of Dodger fans), it is the only person that matters – […]
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They’re Making it Tough on Us – again
August 8th, 2012 at 10:47 am by Ron Cervenka It seems like every time the Dodgers get us all feeling good and plant positive thoughts of actually making it to the post season in our minds, they invariably shoot themselves in the foot – and us in the heart. To say that losing the current series to the Colorado Rockies, the indisputable worst team in baseball (well, […]
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