Players weekend was a hoot and the Dodgers made it even more of a hoot with an efficient 3-1 win over the Brewers in the series opener on Friday night. The Brewers missed out on a golden opportunity to pick up ground on the Cubs in the NL Central. The
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It’s hard to believe that it’s August 25 and the Dodgers have 90 wins already, but here we are. What an incredible journey it’s been. The Dodgers are the best team in baseball and it’s been thrilling watching them manhandle the rest of the National League. The postseason is fast
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The Dodgers returned to PNC Park a day after Rich Hill’s near no-hitter was ruined because of incompetent offense. The Dodgers were looking to wrap up the four-game set with a series win in an afternoon delight on getaway day. Hyun-jin Ryu battled Chad Kuhl in the series finale. The
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We all have those days. You know the kind, when nothing goes right. The cards are stacked against you from the start. Everything's just plain jinxed. Well, honey baby, this wasn't one of those. Tonight Rich Hill was gold. He was cruisin'. Hill was straight up dealing and nobody could
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Thunderous skies threatened to rain out tonight's Dodgers - Pirates match, and the Bucs probably wish they had, as the Big Blue Steamroller just kept bangin' along on all cylinders on its way to win number 89 for the season. Five Dodgers: Chris Taylor, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, Yasmani Grandal, and
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I know the Dodgers are like 50 games up in the standings and Dave Roberts wants to experiment. He wants to audition different relievers to see who has the makeup to pitch in high leverage situations. I get it. But there was no reason to punt away an easy win
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A pitching duel broke out again in Motown. The Dodgers completed inter-league play as Justin Verlander took on Kenta Maeda. Chris Taylor and Cody Bellinger were missing from the line-up. Both Pitchers took no-hitters in to the sixth inning as the Dodgers went for the sweep. New Dodger Curtis Granderson
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The big news of the day was that the Dodgers acquired outfielder Curtis Granderson for the stretch run. Struggling outfielder Joc Pederson was sent to the minors. Yu Darvish was put on the DL with back tightness and the Dodgers called up reliever Edward Paredes. Grant Dayton also suffered a
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Adrian Gonzalez was activated prior to the game as the Dodgers began a 7 game road trip which started against the Tigers for the first of three. Rich Hill went against Jordan Zimmerman who has fallen on hard times. The real question I think is would anyone be able to
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Tonight was supposed to be special for Yu Darvish. It was his first time pitching in Dodger Stadium. He wore the home whites for the first time, and it was his birthday. However, it was Yasiel Puig who stole the show. Darvish wasn't particularly awful. He pitched six innings and wasn't
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The Dodgers scored 5 runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 1-1 tie and beat the White Sox 6-1 in the first game of this short two game set. It was technically another come from behind win since the boys in blue were losing 1-0. Joc
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If you thought the Dodgers were going to lose their first series in over two months, then the jokes on you. The Dodgers might have teased you a bit by tussling with those pesky fourth place Padres, but there was never really any danger of them losing two of three
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The Dodgers triumphantly returned to Chavez Ravine from a very successful road trip, only to have the San Diego Padres throw cold water on their parade and a fastball at their starting pitcher's throat. The Dodgers suffered a great scare when Rich Hill took a pitch right in the side of
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Yu Darvish made his second start for the Dodgers on Thursday evening as the boys in blue wrapped up their three game set with the Snakes. Darvish certainly didn’t have his best stuff yet still managed to rack up 10 strikeouts which now gives him 20 punch-outs in just 12
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Tonight's Dodgers - Snakes game matched current Dodgers ace Alex Wood, against ex-Dodgers ace, Zack Grienke. They both battled valiantly, but Grienke eventually fell to the long Dodgers lineup as Yasiel Puig and Joc Pederson sent him to the dugout losing 3-2. The snakes never recovered. It was an old-fashioned pitchers
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Monday night’s affair did not go as planned as the Dodgers dropped the first game of the series to the Snakes 6-3. Jake Lamb’s grand slam home run in the seventh inning was the death blow. Apparently Dave Roberts was “experimenting” using Tony Watson in the seventh inning as a postseason
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