Today is Trayce Thompson's birthday - and he hit a home run! Most of the time, that would be good enough for the headline...but not this time. Today Andrew Toles stole the spotlight with a magnificent day out on the diamond. Mr. Toles didn't hit a home run, nevertheless, he put up some
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There’s some discussion about which relievers are going to occupy the final couple of spots in the Dodger bullpen this season. We know that Kenley Jansen is the closer and Sergio Romo will probably be the set-up man providing the eighth inning duties. Second year southpaw Grant Dayton is likely to
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Dodger’s starting catcher Yasmani Grandal is a talented backstop. He’s one of the best pitch framers in the game and hits well for power from both sides of the plate. The problem with him is that he is injury prone. He gets hurt a lot. To be fair a lot
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I always like to keep an optimistic outlook, but prepare for the worst. Perhaps that’s what the Dodgers are doing with wonder kid Corey Seager’s latest oblique injury. The club has so many injuries from day-to-day that it can be hard to diagnose or determine timelines for return. Initially Seager’s
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The Dodgers slapped the Texas Rangers around Arizona tonight behind the arm of Brandon McCarthy and the bat of Yasiel Puig. Use whatever adjective you like - it won't be big enough to contain all the ways the boys in blue dominated the unlucky Rangers. Here's how it all played out: The
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Are you heading out to see the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch? Are you curious where the prices for Dodgers tickets fit in the grand scheme of ticket prices for all the other teams? If so, here's a couple of handy charts that illustrate where Spring Training ticket prices for the Dodgers
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Dodger baseball just wouldn’t be Dodger baseball without a ton of injuries. Last season the Dodgers set records for most days on the disabled list and most players on the DL. For whatever reason the current group of Dodgers are injury prone and have trouble going even a few days
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Here we go again, yet another spring with scarce opportunities to watch the Dodgers play Spring Training games. This despite the fact the team has an $8 billion dollar broadcasting deal, a 24-hour channel available, and all the equipment and people in place to show it. Today the Dodgers' ace, the
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Just when Scott Kazmir was making progress in his quest to return to the Dodgers' starting rotation, cruel fate stepped in and shoved him right off the mound in his start against the Colorado Rockies today. Kazmir was scheduled to pitch two innings, but he didn't get anywhere close to that modest
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Julio Urias , Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig all played big roles in today's Dodgers win over the Seattle Mariners. Urias set the tone early with two scoreless innings, two strike outs, no hits and one walk. Sergio Romo took over in the third. He brought with him high Dodger blue socks with
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It’s far too early in the spring to make any type of determination about the 2017 Dodgers yet. So far through 9 exhibition games the Dodgers have a 5-4 record. There are some things we do know, such as Clayton Kershaw will be the opening day starter, and Corey Seager
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Former Baltimore farmhand Wynston Sawyer drove in the winnings runs for the Dodgers on Thursday afternoon against the Cleveland Indians. Sawyer’s two-run single gave the Dodgers a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. They would go onto win by that 4-2 score. I have no idea who
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We can close the chapter on the Dodgers and Joe Blanton reuniting in 2017. The Washington Nationals have signed Blanton to a one-year three million dollar contract. According to Jorge Castillo of the Washington Post Blanton can earn one million dollars in incentives. We kept hearing throughout the winter that the
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Julio Urias took the mound for his Cactus League debut this afternoon, and he faced the Rockies. The plan was for Urias to pitch one or two innings, based on how his first inning went. After giving up two hits and one run, the kid was done (sort of). He tossed
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For those who are keeping score, it looks like Scott Kazmir takes Round One from Hyun-Jin Ryu in the Spring Training game known as Starting Rotation Bingo. There are only two pitching slots available in the Dodgers' rotation, as Clayton Kershaw, Rich Hill and Kenta Maeda are the established Big Three.
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In the second Cactus League game of the spring, the Dodgers took on the Milwaukee Brewers at Maryvale Park. Andre Ethier led off the game with a sharp single to the opposite field. Unfortunately, he was quickly thrown out trying to steal second. The Dodgers came out of the box aggressively
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