The dark skies and ashes from the fires of last night were gone. Today brought the Dodgers and Braves together on a sunny LA afternoon with the smell of a sweep in the air. Scott Kazmir was on the mound, and Carl Crawford was finally out of the dugout. Here's
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Today is quite an important day in the Dodger’s 2016 baseball season. Not because the Dodgers won their 30th game of the season in last night’s 4-0 shutout win over the Braves. Today is an epically important day because today is the first day of the post Carl Crawford era. The shocking
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The Dodgers slugged four home runs on Friday evening that included three from Corey Seager to defeat the Braves 4-2. The Braves are the worst club in the National league of course, but still a win is a win. Beggars can't be choosers. This is a good time to fatten up on
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The Dodgers are home after a 3-4 road trip against the toughest teams in the National League East. They've been struggling to score runs, but the good news is they were facing the lowly Atlanta Braves, who are struggling even more than the Dodgers. 1st inning Braves Quick 1-0 lead. Uh-oh. 2nd inning Braves
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The Dodgers come home tonight after a better than expected road trip. You might look at the Dodger’s recent trip to New York and Chicago and think them losing 4 out of 7 was an unsuccessful trip. To that I say you are wrong. The trip was very successful if
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The Dodgers started the day with an early game, hoping for a series split against the Cubs, and they brought young Julio Urias to help them get there. The handicap: Justin Turner batting third. THIRD! A travesty. 2nd inning Cubs After 26 pitches, a Joc Pederson error, and a mini-rally, the Cubs took
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The Dodgers played percentage baseball in game three of their four game series against the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday evening and unsurprisingly forfeited the contest which resulted in a predictable 2-1 loss to the northsiders. The Dodgers decided to rest their two biggest offensive threats because a lefty was on the mound
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Tonight was the third of a four game series against the Cubs, pitting Mike (Trampoline) Bolsinger against Jon Lester. Wih Yasiel Puig , Chase Utley and Adrian Gonzalez sitting the game out, Bolsinger got the B Squad to back him up. In other things to watch for, the start for Carl
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Another dominating start by Scott Kazmir and an eighth inning rally helped the Dodgers break a scoreless tie and even their series with the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday evening. Kazmir out-dueled Jake Arrieta and the Dodgers were able to score off the Chicago bullpen in their 5-0 win. Tonight the Dodgers
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Jake Arrieta hasn't lost a game yet this season, but the Dodgers have played well on the road, and their lineup finally reflected something I have advocated for weeks - the dumping of Justin Turner out of the top third of the lineup. The change only came about because JT was
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Oh I think they do. It's going to take a whole lot of hardcore believin' to sell it though. The Dodger offense took the memorial holiday off by getting one-hit by several Chicago pitchers on Monday en route to a pathetic 2-0 loss. The Dodgers also lost out on another opportunity
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Memorial Day brought game one of a four game series between the team with the best record in the majors vs the team with the most questionable one. Alex Wood returned to the starting rotation in a test of his sore? healed? triceps muscle. The good news was he had a team
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Don’t look now but the Dodgers have won 6 of their last 7 games. The Dodgers escaped New York with a series win thanks to Adrian Gonzalez’s clutch ninth inning two-run single to give the Dodgers a 4-2 win over the Mets on Sunday night baseball in the series finale.
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The final game of the Dodgers-Mets weekend lovefest featured Clayton Kershaw vs Bartolo Colón. Both teams were coming off emotionally charged wins. The Mets taking the first game when Chase Utley's 9th inning heroics were thrown away by Pedro Baez's 9th inning mistake. The Dodgers won the second game when Chase
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Karma came back to bite the Mets in the butt on Saturday night. They tried to finally retaliate against Chase Utley and paid the price for it. It resulted in starter Noah Syndergaard and manager Terry Collins getting ejected from the game in the third inning. Utley ended up hitting
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It’s Chase Utley’s world, and we are all just living in it. The Dodgers evened the series in Gotham after they demolished the Mets in a controversial win on Fox‘s Saturday national broadcast. Chase Utley continued his wonderful terrorization of the New York Mets as he slugged two home runs including
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