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It’s Broke

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 […]

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Another Day, Another Multi-Hit Game

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 […]

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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 […]

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Thanks. We Needed That

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 […]

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Miller Struggles in Homecoming

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 […]

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That’s One

It took nine games and 37 official at-bats, but on Wednesday night in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,746, highly touted superstar designated hitter Shohei Ohtani finally hit his first home run in a Dodgers uniform, and man did he crush it. “Honestly, very relieved that I was able to hit […]

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5 and 1,500 for 50

Thirty-one-year-old Dodgers infielder Mookie Betts slugged his team-leading fifth home run of the season on Tuesday night, a 407-foot solo blast into the Left Field Pavilion at Dodger Stadium off of San Francisco Giants right-hander Logan Webb, to tie the game at 2-2. But as anyone watching or listening to game quickly learned, it was […]

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The Trade-off

“I faced him once in the past,” Hernández told SportsNet LA’s Kirsten Watson of Rogers postgame. “I was looking for something that I could just put the ball in play with men on first and third with one out. I was trying to get that run that was at third and I just put a […]

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Muncy’s Wheelhouse

It took six games for 33-year-old Dodgers infielder Max Muncy, to finally hit his first home run of the Dodgers’ six-game-old 2024 season, but it was a big one. With his team down 4-3 to the St. Louis Cardinals in the bottom of the eighth inning and Dodgers left fielder Chris Taylor on second base, […]

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Might There Be a New Staff Ace on the Dodgers Horizon?

With all due respect to 36-year-old Dodgers future first ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw, there might be a new Staff Ace on the radar of the Dodgers insanely good pitching staff, and his name is Bobby Miller. A bold statement after making only one start in the Dodgers four-game-old 2024 season, and after only […]

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