Well folks, you asked for it - nay, you pleaded for it, begged for it, and demanded it. The day for Julio Urias to take the mound for the Dodgers is just around the corner. Urias will start tomorrow, Friday night, against the Mets, in New York City. It may not
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The Dodgers handed the Reds their tenth consecutive loss on Wednesday night defeating them by a 3-1 score and completing a three game sweep. The Reds have now lost nine straight to the Dodgers and the Dodgers have won four in a row themselves. Scott Kazmir pitched the game of
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The Dodgers look for their fourth straight win and a sweep of the Reds tonight in the series finale and final game of the home stand. The Reds have lost nine consecutive games and are looking to avoid becoming the first team in the majors this season to lose ten
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Dodgers-Reds. Game Two of three. The return (again) of Mike Bolsinger vs a pitcher making his ML debut. It was an even money bet. 1st inning Dodgers Singles for Chase Utley Corey Seager Justin Turner hit a blooper that dropped just right. RBI for Turner and score Utley. 1-0 2nd inning Dodgers 1-0 Reds 1,2,3 inning for
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Why is everyone in such a great mood at work today? The answer is Clayton Kershaw of course, of course. The ace pitched his third complete game shutout of the season in the Dodger’s 1-0 win over the Reds during the series opener on Monday evening. The Dodgers have now won two
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Tonight brought the first visit of the Zinzinatti Reds (as the venerable Vin Skully calls them) to Chavez Ravine. The Reds had only won three road games up to this point, and sat 16 games behind the Cubs. How would they fare running into the buzzsaw known as Clayton Kershaw? Kershaw,
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The Dodgers returned home after holding us hostage for the longest game of our lives. Seven hours and seventeen innings later the boys in blue finally emerged victorious by scoring four runs in the top of the seventeenth inning to defeat San Diego. It was Yasiel Puig’s two-run single that
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Kenta Maeda is becoming "one of those" Dodger pitchers. When he pitches, people are starting to wonder which Maeda will show up - the awesome one, or the dreadful one? Now that I think about it, the Dodgers overall, are "one of those" teams. Here's what happened today in the crazy universe
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We can see it. At least half the crowd in Chavez Ravine can see it. But I don't think Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts and his "advisors" can. This team, run on the same strategies that they've tried night after night, is headed straight for Nowheresville - and last time I
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Dodgers vs Padres. Game Two. The returns of Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp. Exciting stuff. Alex "Who knows which way he'll bend?" Wood on the mound. Exciting in an entirely different way. Cut to the third inning: 3rd inning Padres Alex Wood strikes out the side. It looked like Strudy Wood was on, as
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All of the good feelings from Justin Turner’s two-run eighth inning go-ahead home run were immediately erased when Kenley Jansen chose a horribly bad time to have his first blown save of the season leading to the Dodger’s 7-6 loss to the Padres on Friday evening. The good thoughts were
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We are approaching Memorial Day which is the quarter mark of the 2016 season. Memorial Day is always a good time to reevaluate your baseball club and start to consider moves to make that would improve your team. So far through the first quarter of the season, the Dodgers have played
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The Dodgers opened a weekend series against the San Diego Padres tonight. The big question on everyone's mind wasn't "How will the Dodgers' offense do?" Nope, we were all wondering what ridiculous getup the Padres would try to push-off as a baseball uniform. A: They threw us all for a loop
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The Dodgers travel into San Diego for a weekend set and what better way to get well after suffering another pathetic series loss than to play the lowly Padres. After the Dodgers rolled over to the Angels in the Freeway Series, it’s just a hop skip and a jump down
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It is truly a shame that the Dodgers are wasting Clayton Kershaw’s unique talent and another epic campaign by surrounding him with the mediocrity that they have placed around him. Kershaw is having another magnificent season and this may be his greatest one yet. He’s struck out 10 or more batters
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The final game of the Freeway Series of LA vs OC (who think they're LA), saw Ross Stripling take the mound for the Dodgers, trying to earn a split. The only thing that split was the Dodgers' chances for a win. 1st inning Dodgers Chase Utley got on with a bunt single
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