Corey Seager scorched a clutch two out double down the left field line with two outs in the bottom of the 9th to score the winning run in a 5-4 victory. The hit came with runners on and was just out of reach of the diving Scooter Gennett of the
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Justin Turner returned to help the Dodgers struggling offense against a Reds team that had won four straight. Rich Hill was on the mound for the Dodgers trying to work his kinks. The Reds had left handed pitcher Amir Garrett on the mound to try and give the Dodgers trouble. In
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The Dodgers were able to salvage one game out of the three on Wednesday during the series finale of the three game NLDS rematch showdown against the Nationals thanks to Clayton Kershaw, Corey Seager, a passed ball from Washington catcher Jose Lobaton and some timely hitting from Yasmani Grandal. Now the
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The Dodgers' offense has been sluggish lately, and that's putting it nicely. They've put up very few runs, and then asked their pitchers to allow even fewer. That formula hasn't been working, as their starting pitchers have been everyone not named Kershaw. Today that changed. In an afternoon game that yours
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The Dodgers lost the first game against the Nationals last night, and it was a tough loss to swallow. Hyun-Jin Ryu gave up early runs that the Dodgers' cold/hot/cold offense just couldn't recover from. Things didn't look much easier for tonight's game, as the Nationals sent big Max Scherzer to the
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The Dodgers dropped the series opener to the Washington Nationals on Monday evening by a 4-2 score. Southpaw veteran Gio Gonzalez shutdown the Dodger’s makeshift lineup and the Dodgers lose a half game in the standings to the idle Rockies. The boys in blue are now 35-24 one game behind
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The Dodgers are back at home after completing a 4-3 road trip. Sure they ended the trip on a down note after being shutout by Milwaukee right hander Zach Davies on Sunday. But a 4-3 road trip with two ninth-inning come from behind wins is nothing to scoff at. The Dodgers are
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There was no comeback for the Dodgers today. There was no thrilling rally or grand slam home run to save them. This was just a quiet effortless shutout. The Dodger bats went cold as they shuffled off to board a plane to Los Angeles with the embarrassment of being shutdown
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After another excruciating extra innings game, which the Dodgers won last night on a Cody Bellinger home run, both the Dodgers and the Brewers were hoping for something different under the afternoon sun today. Nobody had any idea what the baseball gods had in store for them today. The game didn't
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26 strikeouts, two monster dongs and 12 innings was all the Dodgers needed to muscle past the Brewers 2-1 on Friday evening during the opening game of the weekend set at Miller Park. The Dodgers were certainly feckless offensively entering tonight’s marathon affair. The Dodgers had scored just one run
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The Dodgers took the field in an early game today, attempting to take 3 of 4 from the Cardinals. The big blue offense was shut down yesterday by good pitching, so the question was, "Will the bats wake up and score some runs today?" The other big question surrounded Dodgers starter
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The Dodgers began their defense of first place in the National League West today, and pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu began his defense of remaining in the starting rotation after a stint in the Dodgers' bullpen last week. Everything chugged along efficiently for the first half of the game. Ryu was sharp. His
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Tuesday afternoon was moving day for the Dodgers. They packed up their belongings and had a garage sale before relocating to a better place. That would be first place. The Dodgers came from behind surviving another lousy Kenta Maeda start to score four runs in the third and three more
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The red-hot Dodgers just completed a sweep of the Cubs, making the current world champs look like world-class chumps. Next on the agenda was a road trip to enemy territory, St. Louis. Here's how game one played out. It was Rich Hill to the mound, trying to recover from a horrendous outing
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Today’s series finale between the Dodgers and Cubs was supposed to be billed as a pitching match-up with Clayton Kershaw countering Jon Lester. Then baseball happened and both aces sucked and the game turned into a slugfest as the Dodgers used their bats instead of their arms mashing four home
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This is clearly not the same Chicago club that won the World Series last year and finished with 103 wins during the 2016 regular season. I don’t know what’s wrong with the Cubs this season but lackluster starting pitching and weak hitting has led them to a mediocre 25-23 start.
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