It certainly didn’t take very long for the Dodgers to revert right back to their old ways of following a winning streak with a losing streak, did it? After winning five straight (which seems to be their limit), including a three-game sweep of the .500 Mets and starting off a four-game series against the streaky […]
(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 […]
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A New Challenge for Matt Kemp
July 25th, 2012 at 4:57 pm 
by Ron Cervenka I can honestly say that the news that Hanley Ramirez had been acquired by the Dodgers this morning didn’t really come as a total surprise to me. In fact, he’s been on my radar for about two years now… as a shortstop, not as a third baseman. But in the same breath, I can also honestly say that […]
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Spilled Milk
July 25th, 2012 at 6:03 am by Ron Cervenka “There is no sense in crying over spilled milk.” It is perhaps one of the first clichés we heard as kids, probably well before we even knew what a cliché was. Although as kids, it was undoubtedly more a fact of life – spilled milk, that is. Over the past six or eight weeks, you have […]
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Those Were the Days
July 24th, 2012 at 3:56 am by Harold Uhlman For forty years, four decades, there were three certainties in life: death, taxes and the Dodgers making it to the World Series two or three times in each of those decades. You just knew that you wouldn’t have to wait many years for another appearance in the big show. Then, along came the nineties and […]
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Lost in the Mix
July 23rd, 2012 at 7:58 am by Ron Cervenka Without question, Sunday afternoon’s 8-3 win in 12 innings was one of the most exciting games of the season (well, for me, at least). Granted, it didn’t have the electricity of a Matt Kemp or Andre Ethier walk-off home run in front of the home crowd, but instead showed the Dodgers working together as a team, […]
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Familiar Faces
July 22nd, 2012 at 5:38 am by Ron Cervenka Ok, I admit it… I was a bit flattered by it all. My daughter Christina, my dear friend Will Isabella (Truebluewill) and I arrived at Citi Field in New York for the first of three Dodgers/Mets games on Friday afternoon. It had rained pretty hard throughout most of the day and to be quite honest, […]
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The Dodger Way
July 21st, 2012 at 4:11 am by Ron Cervenka Anybody who has known me for more than ten minutes knows that my all-time favorite Dodger is Hall of Famer Don Drysdale. Why, you ask? Because Don always played the game the right way. He was intimidating… even feared, yet he was as loyal to his teammates and to the Dodger organization as anyone could […]
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A Long Distance Love Affair
July 20th, 2012 at 4:36 am by Harold Uhlman Have you ever had a long distance romance? I have, on two occasions. The first didn’t have a very successful ending as it suffered from all of the pitfalls of being separated by 2400 miles. The letters, the phone calls, the rare visit were not enough to sustain the relationship for two young people. The […]
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To Trade or Not To Trade
July 19th, 2012 at 6:56 am by Harold Uhlman To trade or not to trade, that is the question. Will our Dodgers make a trade, maybe even more than one? The July trade deadline is rapidly approaching. Each day I check the blogs, the mainline sports sites, the newspapers, the rumor mills, for any news of a Dodger trade. I wait with baited breath […]
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No Words Needed Here
July 18th, 2012 at 6:00 pm by Ron Cervenka I’ll let the photos do the talking. LAD-5 PHI-2 Matt Kemp walk-off home run in the 12th inning.
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