If you are one of the many Dodger fans who follow the team’s minor league affiliates then seeing Dodgers top pitching prospect Jose De Leon win a game is nothing new to you. After all, the 22-year-old Isabela, Puerto Rico native was 4-1 with the Advanced Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes this season with a 1.67 […]
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Tickets still available for Tueday’s Cal League – Carolina League All-Star Game
June 22nd, 2015 at 12:17 pm 
by Ron Cervenka What do Yasmani Grandal, Nathan Eovaldi, Buster Posey, Chase Headley, Billy Hamilton, Sean Doolittle, Pablo Sandoval, Peter Bourjos, Wade LeBlanc and more recently Carlos Correa and Corey Seager have in common? They all represented the California League in the prestigious California League versus Carolina League All-Star Game. The annual event showcases the very best that […]
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Arizona League Dodgers begin play
June 22nd, 2015 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman Play in the rookie level Arizona League began on Saturday, June 20th. The fourteen team league plays its 56 game schedule in and around the Phoenix area at the spring training facilities of their parent major league clubs. The AZL Dodgers play their home games at the Camelback Ranch complex shared by the parent Dodgers […]
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This is it, Dodgers
June 21st, 2015 at 11:17 am by Ron Cervenka By 9:00 pm (PT) tonight, the Dodgers will either be in first place in the NL West or they will not. They will have either finally snapped out of their brutal one-through-eight offense slump (Justin Turner notwithstanding) or they will once again become nightly scoreboard watchers hoping that Bruce Bochy’s far more fundamentally sound Giants […]
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Quakes win Cal League first half title
June 21st, 2015 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka When the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes kicked off the 2015 season in search of their first-ever California League Championship as a Dodgers affiliate on April 9, it became very obvious very quickly that this team was special. They had a brand new manager (Bill Haselman), a brand new pitching coach (Bill Simas) and a brand new assistant coach (Rafael […]
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Loons secure playoff berth
June 20th, 2015 at 11:00 pm by Harold Uhlman The Great Lakes Loons have assured themselves of a postseason spot for the first time since the 2013 season. The Loons play in the Eastern Division of the Midwest League in which both the first place and second place teams in the division earn a playoff berth. The Lansing Lugnuts clinched the division title earlier […]
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The slow rise and fast fall of Josh Ravin
June 20th, 2015 at 8:16 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers reliever Josh Ravin is one of the most polite, soft-spoken young men in the Dodgers clubhouse. He also throws a fastball that averages 97 MPH and occasionally breaks the century mark. But as the 27-year-old West Hills, CA native has so painfully learned. major league hitters can catch up to a 97 or even […]
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Quakes on verge of clinching playoff berth
June 19th, 2015 at 10:11 am by Ron Cervenka On June 6, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes held a substantial five-game lead over the defending 2014 Cal League champion Lancaster JetHawks – due in part by help from rehabbing Dodgers Yasiel Puig and Erik Bedard. But since then, their lead dropped to as little as one game and, as of Friday morning, sits at two games […]
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Is this the most important series of the season?
June 19th, 2015 at 8:31 am by Ron Cervenka It’s tough to call a series, any series, in mid-June the most important series of the season. But when you consider that the Dodgers enter this weekend’s three-game series against the hated Giants nursing a 2.5-game lead over them in the NL West standings and can conceivably come out of this weekend 5.5 games ahead of them or in […]
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LOB is killing the Dodgers… again
June 18th, 2015 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka As a veteran (old) Dodger fan, I have been blessed to have been around for every one of the Dodgers six World Series championships. Granted, I was only two years old when they won their first one in Brooklyn in 1955, but I have a very vivid recollection of those in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981 and […]
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