Championship caliber teams have strong bullpens. If your team is leaking runs in the late innings then you’re not going to go anywhere in the standings. This explains the 2018 Dodgers, a good team cursed with a gaggle of lousy relievers. Once again the Dodger bullpen snatched defeat from the
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The Dodgers got a great come from behind victory last night. Bad news followed today with the news that Kenley Jansen will be out for a month with an irregular heartbeat, which has happened in the past in the same ballpark. So the Dodgers need to make a bullpen move.
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When Pedro Baez giving up a three-run home run to a .213 hitter and blowing a two-run lead in the bottom of the seventh inning is not the primary storyline in the Dodger’s 8-5 win over Colorado in the series opener on Thursday evening at Coors Field, then you know
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There aren’t many ballparks that can keep the Dodgers from hitting home runs. The Oakland Coliseum is one of them. It looks like the Dodgers are playing on the moon in that massive Park. Without the benefit of a home run the Dodgers had to play some small ball as
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The Dodgers got battered and bruised yesterday 14-0. The Dodgers didn't want to get swept against the Astros. Today Gerrit Cole was on the mound to face off against Walker Buehler. Buehler had to be the stopper today. Alex Wood is now on the DL. Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig
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Sometimes I look for comfort in baseball and sometimes it doesn’t give you any comfort in return. Saturday night was one of those kinds of nights for the Dodgers. The Astros pummeled the boys in blue on Saturday evening at Dodger Stadium by a 14-0 score. The game was close
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The Dodgers fresh of scoring 21 runs and splitting a series with Brewers last night. Tonight was Andre Ethier retirement night. The Dodgers welcomed the defending champions Houston Astros to the ravine. Alex Wood had to take on Justin Verlander. In the bottom of the first, Joc Pederson hit a
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The Dodgers achieved their first walk-off home run win since Justin Turner’s historic walk-off blast in game 2 of the 2017 National League championship series as Yasmani Grandal’s beautiful walk-off shot off of Matt Albers in the bottom of the tenth gave the Dodgers a 6-4 win over the Brewers
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During the exhibition Freeway Series a pipe burst underneath Dodger Stadium spewing noxious liquid onto the field. That seemed to be a smelly omen as the Dodgers got off to one of the worst starts to a regular season in nearly 60 years. On Monday evening there was a power
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The Dodgers had to play at the crack of dawn today and ran into a buzz-saw named Sean Newcomb of the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers concluded the four game series against the Braves and this ten game road trip. On the mound for the Dodgers today was Ross Stripling. Stripling
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Yasiel Puig made his triumphant return from the disabled list on Saturday evening as the Dodgers beat the struggling Braves 5-1 to take another one from Atlanta at Sun Trust Park. The Dodgers have won three consecutive games over the Braves with Atlanta pitching issuing 14 walks over the last
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The Dodgers have been on the road on what seems like forever. The Dodgers actually have done well on the road this season and on this road trip. This was game 2 of the four game series against the Atlanta Braves. Mike Foltynewicz took on Clayton Kershaw. In the bottom
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The Dodgers picked themselves up by the bootstraps after a frustrating series in Philadelphia and treated themselves to a good old fashion beatdown of the Braves in the opening game of the Atlanta series. The Dodgers bashed the Braves 8-2 and increased their NL West lead over the Dbacks back
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It’s hard to put into words how furious I am at how this game ended. So let’s be frank here. The Dodgers punted away a game they should have and could have easily won. I wasn’t surprised though. Anytime the Dodgers play an extra inning game that goes longer than
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The Dodgers second leg of their ten game three-city road trip saw them flying into the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia to face the Phillies for a three game series. This is Chase Utley’s old stomping grounds and his final appearance at Citizen’s bank Park before his retirement. Utley did
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The Dodgers squandered a boatload of scoring opportunities on Saturday in their 4-2 loss to the Brewers at Miller Park. On Sunday afternoon it was the Brewers turn to waste early scoring opportunities as the Dodgers crushed the Crew 11-2 in the series finale. Milwaukee loaded the bases in the
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