It’s a sayings that has been around as long as the game of baseball itself: “Walks kill you.” Not the physical type of walks, which are good for you, but the base on balls type of walks, which are not. On a rain delayed game at Chavez Ravine on Sunday afternoon, walks killed the Dodgers, […]

Saturday night’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium was one for the books. Not only did it almost not happen because of significant rain which caused a two hour and 15 minute delay, but at one point, both benches cleared between the division rivals over a pitch […]

  *  *  *  “It’s Dinger Day at Dodger Stadium.” – Dodgers Broadcaster Stephen Nelson   *  *  *  *  If “Chicks Dig the Long Ball,” there were alot of happy chicks at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, where the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres hit a combined eight of them, four apiece. […]

Being in first place 15 games into the new season is nice, but it is certainly not indicative of how the 2024 regular season will ultimately play out. However, this week’s nine-game home stand with three against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres, three against the NL East fourth-place Washington Nationals, and three against […]

We have long been told that there are only two sure things in life – death and taxes. Make that three. “It seems like every time you look up, he’s on base,” former Dodger great and current Dodgers broadcast Rick Monday said, after future Hall of Famer Mookie Betts singled to right on the second […]

It’s one of the earliest sayings we learned as kids: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” A quick look at Dodgers right-hander Alex Vesia‘s stats 15 games into the 2024 season confirms he is broke. In his last two appearances on April 9 and 10 against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field, the Alpine, CA […]

I’ll get right to the point: “Shohei has continued to swing a hot bat, and, you know, if he can continue to go to the middle of the field and go back-side, which he did tonight, he’s tough to beat,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of our generation’s Babe Ruth, following his team’s 4-2 win […]

There wasn’t much Good and a whole lot of Bad in Sunday’s Ugly 8-1 Dodgers loss to the Chicago Cubs at an absolutely drenched Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon – a game which should have never even started and was finally suspended with one out in the bottom of the fourth inning. But for as […]

To say that 25-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto got off to a bit of a rough start after signing his 12 year/$325 million contract with the Dodgers on December 27, 2023 would be extremely kind. Truth be told, after signing the longest and most lucrative contract in Major League Baseball history (so far), and after his […]

On Friday, the Dodgers opened their weekend series with the Chicago Cubs on a windy, 45-degree afternoon. The first traditional road trip kicked off with quick traffic on the Dodgers base paths, highlighted by a 2-run single from Teoscar Hernández. Bobby Miller was on the mound for the Dodgers on Friday afternoon, with over 30 […]