The Dodgers have won four in a row, but tonight's pitcher is wild card, Scott Kazmir. That means anything can happen, and you won't find me betting on five in a row. That said, the other wild card is the Dodgers' offense. Like LA's temperatures, the bats have been flaming hot.
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The Dodgers rolled off their fourth consecutive win on Monday evening as Clayton Kershaw defeated the Nationals by a 4-1 score. It was a brutally hot day in Los Angeles with temperatures in excess of 110 degrees. Despite Kershaw tiring in the top of the seventh, he still allowed just one earned
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have started to turn things around, but are still trailing the San Francisco Giants in the standings. One of the reasons the Dodgers have struggled this season is their bullpen, which has been overworked this season. The Dodgers still have favorable online MLB sports betting odds of making
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Tonight's game was supposed to be the big showdown between the National League's two big guns, Clayton Kershaw and Stephen Strasburg. It was a match up so anticipated, that Vin Scully braved a sore throat to come in to work. Like many of us, Scully was anticipating a great game. However,
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The Dodgers came from behind on father’s day to defeat the Brewers 2-1 and take the series 3 games to 1. Kike Hernandez’s solo home run in the bottom of the eighth helped erase a 1-0 deficit and Yasmani Grandal’s bases loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth forced in the
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The Dodgers have announced that they have traded right handed pitcher Zach Lee to the Mariners for utility infielder Chris Taylor. Lee a former first round draft pick in 2010 never quite panned out for the Dodgers. The hurler was a former football standout before he chose baseball and signed
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It was 99 degrees at first pitch. The Dodgers and Brewers were both decked out in powder blue accented unis, and Kenta Maeda on the bump. 1st inning Brewers They say the hotter weather makes it easier for home run balls to travel. Perhaps so, as Maeda gave up a first inning
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The Dodgers fattened up on Milwaukee pitching on Saturday night with an impressive 10-6 victory to take a 2-1 series lead. The Dodger offense exploded and scored 10 runs on 14 hits as Justin Turner stayed hot slugging another home run and driving in three runs. Joc Pederson (who batted lead-off last
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The first two games of the Dodgers/Brewers series were tough, back and forth affairs. Each team had come away with one win. Mike Bolsinger was set to pitch against Chase Anderson. They are both old friends, and Bolsinger was Best Man at Anderson's wedding. The big question was, which of the
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The Dodgers rebounded quite nicely from their annoying 8-6 loss to the Brewers in the series opener. Justin Turner had quite a night as he continues his quest to turn his season around and troll Oscar in the process. Turner drove in all three runs for the Dodgers on Friday
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Julio Urias took the mound at Chavez Ravine with the intent to boost the Dodgers back up after a difficult loss to the Brewers last night. Last night's game was a see-saw affair with blown leads, two 3-run comebacks, a ninth inning rally that fell short, and a shouting/shoving match in
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During the sixth inning of last night's Dodgers - Brewers game, Justin Turner sent a fly ball to deep left field. Joc Pederson tagged up at third and scored the tying run, but the play was much closer than it had to be. Yasmani Grandal was on first base and he
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The Dodger’s miserably average season continued with another disappointing loss on Thursday evening to the Brewers. Scott Kazmir got lit up like a Christmas tree, and bullpen torches Pedro Baez and Casey Fien poured gasoline on the fire. To be fair Fien has been pretty good until last night, but the Dodgers
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After a six-game, .500 road trip, the Dodgers returned to Chavez Ravine (and Vin Scully) to take on the Brewers. Chase Utley returned to the lead off spot, Will Venable started in right field, and Scott Kazmir took the mound, with Yasmani Grandal as his battery mate. We'll pick up the
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The Dodgers rebounded nicely after losing the first game of the series and on Wednesday afternoon defeated the snakes by a 3-2 score and took two out of three games in the desert. As expected the Dodgers fielded some of their B-squad, and it was one of those B-squaders that provided the Dodgers
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The machinations behind the Dodgers daily line ups absolutely baffle me. Let's use yesterday's game against the Diamondbacks as an example. On one hand, the Dodgers made a smart move by dropping Adrian Gonzalez down to fifth in the batting order. I've called for that for the past few weeks. We
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