The Two Biggest Questions Facing the Dodgers in the Postseason
The Dodgers face two big questions coming into the postseason. Here is Question Number One, and of course, it involves Kenley Jansen. https://youtu.be/fQeXwvSaAPM
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Month: September 2019
Dodgers Wrap Up Regular Season With 106 Wins, Setting The Franchise Record
Every team in Major League baseball began their game at 12 PM PST on Sunday afternoon, the last day of the regular season. The final day of the regular season has different meaning for each team depending on where you are in the standings. For the Dodgers it’s a meaningless
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Dodger’s Manager Dave Roberts Stops By The Jim Rome Show
The Dodgers are in San Francisco taking on the Giants in their final series of the regular season. Two wins in the three game series will give them 105 wins and the best record in Los Angeles Dodgers history. The 2017 club won 104 games. A sweep will give them
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Corey Seager’s NL Player of The Week Award is Well Deserved
One name that has become increasingly popular in the world of baseball is 2016 Rookie of the Year, Corey Seager. It doesn’t feel so long ago that the newbie made international headlines as the newest addition in 2016. Now, at the perfect time in his career, Seager has once again
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King of The Hill: Dodger Veteran Looks Good After Tossing Two Strong Innings in San Diego
If Rich Hill only needs one knee to pitch this postseason then perhaps he is ready to go. Despite limping and wincing in pain, Hill tossed two scoreless frames against the Padres for the Dodgers on Tuesday night. He also contributed at the plate with a double. The Dodgers removed
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Comparing the Experience of Dodger Stadium to Wrigley Field
Regular readers of this space know that I've been away for a bit. Unfortunately, I had a health problem a couple of months ago that knocked me offline. Now that some time has passed, I'm feeling much better, and I'm back in the saddle again. My big test was to take
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Hideo Nomo’s No-Hitter in Denver 23 Years Ago Still Amazes Me
I was a sophomore in high school 23 years ago today, September 17, 1996. I had rushed home from school in order to prepare for the Dodgers/Rockies game scheduled for about 5:00 PM PST. The game was one of the selected 50 or so road games being telecast on KTLA
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Late Inning Clutch Hitting Helps Dodgers Win Gotham Rubber Game Over Mets
The Dodgers came from behind to overcome a 2-1 deficit by scoring one run in the eighth and another in the ninth to defeat the New York Mets 3-2 in the Gotham City rubber game on Sunday Night baseball. Jedd Gyorko’s RBI single broke a 2-2 tie and plated the
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He May Be Getting Old, But Clayton Kershaw Can Still Pitch Effectively
If you thought that Clayton Kershaw was finished as he entered his twelfth season with the Dodgers in 2019 then think again. The Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 9-2 at Citi Field on Friday night as Kershaw notched his fourteenth win of the season tossing 6.1 innings to improve
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Dodgers Clinch Another NL West Title
We can certainly complain a lot about the Dodger’s inability to win a World Series championship since their last in 1988. Yet I think we can be a bit spoiled. The Dodgers may still be searching for their first championship in over 31 years however they have had a stranglehold
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Dodger’s Pitching Staff is Exhausted, Need Rest Before October
They’re more than exhausted, they are gassed. You could say they are Exxon mobile gassed. I saw a stat online last night that stated that the Dodgers have not had a starting pitcher pitch into the sixth inning since August 27 at San Diego. That’s a span of nine games.
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Dodgers Old Guys Hit Three Home Runs To Wreck Rockies
The Dodgers have hit 248 home runs setting a single season franchise record. They are just one shy of tying the all-time National League mark for dongs in a campaign. The Dodgers hit three of them on Tuesday night (all from a trio of veterans) against the Rockies helping them
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Labor Day: State of The Dodgers Entering September
It’s Labor Day folks and that represents the three-quarters mark of the major league baseball season. The Dodgers right now on September 1 are 88-50 and have a 17 game lead in the National League West. They’re magic number to clinch their seventh consecutive division title is now at 9.
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