The Dodgers just completed a successful home-stand against the Giants and the Cubs taking two of three from both. So the letdown occurred yesterday against the Rockies in Coors, where the Dodgers were pounded 8-1. The Dodgers now lead the Giants by 1 1/2 games in the NL West. So
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As Scott told us in the pregame report, this is the last time in 2016 the Dodgers will play in the Baseball Devil's Triangle known as Coors field. Kenta Maeda, the most consistent Dodgers starting pitcher since the All-Star break, was tasked with winning his seventh straight game. The game was
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I wasn't going to get involved in the Colin Kaepernick controversy at all. I had my reasons. The first is, I don't care that much about the 49s or what happens in preseason football. Secondly, tossing your two-cents into a nation-wide social media battle is not the best way to make friends, and
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It seems like I owe Brock Stewart a huge apology. I thought he was going to get hammered by the Cubs in the Dodger’s 1-0 win on Sunday afternoon. The kid stepped up to the plate and gave the Dodgers 5 shutout frames. His stuff was dazzling and the Dodgers eked
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The Cubs won the first game this weekend. The Dodgers took the second. Here's how the rubber match of this playoffs-preview series played out. It was close! 1st inning Jon Lester struck out the side. 3rd inning Brock Stewart struck out the side. That gave him 7 Ks. Dodgers Brock Stewart got his first ML single! 4th
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Percentage baseball again! Wonderful! Everyone enjoy! The Dodgers badly needed a win after they were almost no-hit by Matt Moore and the Giants and then blew a 4-3 lead in the top of the ninth to the Cubs, eventually losing in extras by a 6-4 score. The lead was down to
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Fresh twenty-year old Julio Urias was given the ball on a sunny, Saturday afternoon and told to stop the Cubs. Spoiler: He did. 1st inning After a walk and two singles, Urias gave up a run. 0-1 Dodgers A Corey Seager home run evened things up. 1-1 2nd inning 1-1 Two Ks for Urias 3rd inning 1-1 Urias kept
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First of all, a lot has happened since I checked in, things naturally get overwhelming, life moves in mysterious ways but I am ready for writing to be fun again, and thanks to this space I am fully ready for that to be the case again. Since we're on the topic of 'fun
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If the trade of nice guy A.J. Ellis meant anything, and it did, you would think that trading away the one guy that that had the most knowledge of the pitching staff would probably be a bad idea. I’m not blaming Saturday’s 6-4 loss on the trade but did Carlos Ruiz
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The Dodgers opened a weekend series with the 81-win Chicago Cubs tonight. To show just how serious they were taking the juggernaut Cubbies, they sent Bud Norris to the mound, and gave starts to Kiké Enrique Hernandez, the Traded Flop, and the newest Dodger, Carlos Ruiz. Yay? 1st inning Norris quickly found
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I have never seen twitter so happy after a 4-0 Dodger shutout loss. Twitter cheered after the Dodger’s were one-hit on Thursday evening. Corey Seager’s bloop single to right with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth broke up Matt Moore’s no-hitter on his bobblehead night and saved the
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Do you remember The Twilight Zone episode "It's A Good Life?" The episode features a six-year old boy, who has the powers of a god. He can read your mind or control the weather. No one knows if he made the entire world disappear, leaving only his small town remaining,
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The Dodgers won the first two games against the Giants. The first was a 9-5 pounding; last night's game, a nail-biting 1-0 struggle. Ross Stripling took to the hill for the boys in blue. Would there be a sweep? Or would the body blow that was the A.J. Ellis trade
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Today in a shocking move the Dodgers traded Clayton Kershaw's personal catcher A.J. Ellis to the Phillies for Carlos Ruiz. Ellis has been with the Dodgers since 2008. The Dodgers are in the middle of a pennant race and playing very good ball, decided to make this move to try and
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Happy days Dodger fans! So why are we in such a great mood today? Once again the birds are singing, the sun is shining. The clouds are fluffier. The air is crisper. The Dodgers continue to surge as the Giants continue to sink. The boys in blue defeated the Giants 1-0 on
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After much anticipation, trepidation, and just plain impatience from the Dodgers Nation, Rich Hill's infamous blister finally healed, and he took the mound tonight at Chavez Ravine. It was a heck of a request to ask Hill to make his Dodgers debut by facing the Giants in this tough NL
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