The Dodgers had yesterday off after getting thrashed by the Oakland A's the other day. The Dodgers Kryptonite came to town in the form of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers put Kenta Maeda on the mound and he always seems to struggle against the snakes. Actually the whole team seems
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The Dodgers have been one of the worst offensive clubs in the majors through the first 11 games of the 2018 baseball season. They're 21 out of the 30 clubs in batting, 25th in on-base percentage, and have scored just 39 runs ranking them 25th overall and 12th out of
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The Oakland A's and Khris Davis gave Alex Wood and the Dodgers a thorough thumping Wednesday night, sending the Dodgers to bed without any of the comforts that home cooking is supposed to provide. The A's pounded out 21 hits and scored 16 runs, leaving the Dodgers and their faithful feeling
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It took me long enough, but I finally made it out to Blue Heaven on Earth, and caught a ball game. It's been a couple of hand-wringing weeks - or a few early season games with nothing to worry about - depending on how you see a record of 3-6
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The Dodgers certainly had a rough road trip losing four out of five games, but they returned home on a happy note after narrowly defeating the Giants 2-1 on Sunday afternoon to force a series split. After an off day on Monday the Dodgers opened a five game home stand
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The Dodgers are back home and preparing to open a five game home stand beginning on Tuesday night with a two-game interleague set against the Oakland A’s. Not only do we have some great baseball at Dodger Stadium this week, but we also have some great food making a debut
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The Dodgers entered Sunday afternoon’s series finale against the Giants in desperate need of a win. After Saturday night’s 14-inning loss and another Wilmer Font failure the Dodgers were in danger of finishing with a win-less road trip. The Dodgers were 0-4 on the current trip after the one rain
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The Dodgers after what seemed to be a week off finally got back to action today against the Hated ones up by the bay. Rich Hill was set to take on Chris Stratton. The Dodgers offense has been struggling a lot lately. The Dodgers fresh off getting swept against the
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The Dodgers were supposed to play a three game series in San Francisco starting on Friday night. Mother Nature had different ideas with the opening game being rained out yesterday evening. The Dodgers will make up the game as part of a double-header on April 28 because they come back
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Yuli Gurriel was suspended by MLB for his racist gesture (aimed at Yu Darvish) during the 2017 World Series. The Astros missed a teachable moment by using a loophole to avoid his rightful discipline. My take... https://youtu.be/M076f0XCOmM
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Well, here we are, one week into the season, and the old familiar Jeckyll and Hyde, Siamese Twin, Convoluted, Confused Dodgers have returned. In this Youtube video, I drop my takes on the first week. Inside we talk about Matt Kemp, the anemic offense, the Dodgers' timid manager, and we
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The Dodger’s early season suckfest continues as the boys in blue dropped their third straight game in Arizona, losing on Wednesday afternoon by a 3-0 score. How long this stinkfest will go on for is anybody’s guess, but the Dodgers looked fatigued and apathetic as they were swept at Chase
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On a night that followed a game spanning two calendar days, and amounted to a loss that kept the Dodgers under .500, they sent their ace, Clayton Kershaw, to the mound with hopes of balancing out the season. Unfortunately, the Diamondbacks refused to cooperate, and then some. The damage to the
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Dodger’s manager Dave Roberts is a great manager; actually he’s one of the best in baseball. But even the best have bad games or make poor calls from time to time. Nobody is exempt from making mistakes, and nobody is perfect. The thing is it is ok to point out
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I should have known the Dodgers were doomed to lose this one. It looked like a disaster waiting to happen right from the lineup that showed Joc Pederson batting leadoff, and the back-to-back placement of Chase Utley and Logan Forsyth in the lineup. Add in starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu, who was
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It looks like my prognostication that the Dodgers would never score again was wrong. In my defense it looked like that was certainly the case. I mean the way they were hitting it was very possible that the boys in blue would not score a single run for 162 games. Then
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