Of this off-season’s moves by the Dodgers, perhaps none was more celebrated by Dodgers fans than last week’s signing of 23-year-old phenom right-hander Roki Sasaki, this after his four outstanding seasons with the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Chiba Lotte Marines. During his four seasons in the NPB, the Rikuzentakata, Japan native posted a remarkable 29-15 record, […]
(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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Freddie the Destroyer
March 3rd, 2025 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Dodgers superstar and future Hall of Famer Freddie Freeman slugged his second home run of the Spring and his second in as many days on Sunday in the Dodgers 6-3 win over their Camelback Ranch camp mates, the Chicago White Sox. But it wasn’t just another Freddie Freeman home run, it was a monster Freddie […]
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A Great Send
March 1st, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Oh sure, Friday night’s bottom-of-the-ninth 6-5 Dodgers walk-off win over the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim was just another “meaningless Spring Training game.” But for the 12,271 on hand at Camelback Ranch, and the millions more watching on SportsNet LA, they got to witness – yet again – why soon-to-be (on March 20) 59-year-old Dodgers third […]
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Dodgers Announce 2025 Minor League Coaching Staffs
February 28th, 2025 at 11:15 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers announced their Minor League coaching staffs for the 2025 season with Scott Hennessey (Oklahoma City), Eric Wedge (Tulsa), Jair Fernandez (Great Lakes), John Shoemaker (Rancho Cucamonga), Juan Apodaca (Arizona Complex League Dodgers), Leury Bonilla and Sergio Mendez (Dominican Summer League Dodgers) all leading their respective squads. The Dodgers farm system returns […]
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Dodgers Lose – But Win
February 28th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers lost their Spring Training game against the Colorado Rockies by a score of 2-0 at Salt River Fields on Thursday afternoon. That’s the bad news. The good great news is that 35-year-old veteran eight-time All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman went 1-for-2 in his 2025 Cactus League debut as the Dodgers designated hitter with […]
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Snell Sharp In Spring Training Debut
February 26th, 2025 at 9:44 am by Ron Cervenka Although 32-year-old Dodgers right-hander Blake Snell needed 30 pitches to the four Seattle Mariners batters he faced in his 2025 Spring Training – and Dodgers – debut on Tuesday afternoon, 20 of those were strikes. The Seattle, WA native and first-round draft pick in 2011 by the Tampa Bay Rays out of Shorewood High School […]
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It’s Still Early
February 25th, 2025 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka It’s something that we hear often this time of year: “Spring Training games are meaningless games,” and “It’s still early.” But what’s ironic is that you rarely (if ever) hear it from fans of teams that are atop their respective Spring Training leagues, be it the Grapefruit League or the Cactus League. By the same […]
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The Force Be With May
February 24th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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Too Close For Comfort
February 21st, 2025 at 8:45 am by Ron Cervenka 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 […]
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At Least There Was This…
February 21st, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka One down … MANY to go. Play Ball! * * * * * *
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