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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The Dodgers have played exactly 24 games and are 13-11 (.542) thus far into the 2024 regular season – good enough to hold a 0.5-game lead over the 13-12 (.520) San Diego Padres for first place in the National League West. As you may recall, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team got off to a blazing […]
Witnessing History
Any bets on who the best player in Major League Baseball is right now? * * * “The boy said my name’s Johnny MookieAnd it might be a sinBut I’ll take your betAnd you’re gonna regret‘Cause I’m the best there’s ever been.” (The Charlie Daniels Band) * * * * On Tuesday night […]
Who Woulda Thunk
Looking in the rear-view mirror, 2022 was the beginning of a turbulent time for the Dodgers starting pitching. In 2021, the team signed Trevor Bauer to a three-year/$102M contract, but his off-field problems limited him to a total of 17 starts and 107 innings pitched. He did not throw a single pitch for the team […]
Walks Kill You
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, […]
Phillips Continues Rich Dodgers Tradition
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 […]
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April 7th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka 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
April 5th, 2024 at 7:00 pm by Trevor Jackson 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
April 4th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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
April 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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
April 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka “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
April 1st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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?
March 30th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka 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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Missing Vin on Opening Day
March 29th, 2024 at 4:00 pm by Trevor Jackson Another home opener has come and gone, and the 2024 season has begun. Although the day was filled with sunshine, pomp and circumstance and ended with a Dodger win, I could feel that something was missing. I joyfully listened as the public address announcer introduced this year’s team on a beautiful Thursday afternoon in front […]
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A Future Great
March 29th, 2024 at 9:00 am by Jayann Kellogg On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that 29-year-old Dodgers Catcher Will Smith had agreed to a 10-year/$140 million contract extension that will keep him in the beloved Dodger Blue through the 2033 season. The Louisville, Kentucky native Smith bats with impressive power with a .263 career batting average, a .358 career on-base percentage, and […]
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