Here's tonight's news from Week 2 at Camelback Ranch: Clayton Kershaw tossed live batting practice today. He threw two innings of BP (29 pitches), and according to Andy McCullough from the LA times, Kershaw looked "a lot like Clayton Kershaw". Alex Wood also threw live BP. Wood is returning from an elbow
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You don't need to be coy, Roy... When Guggenheim Partners took over the Dodgers on April 30, 2012, Stan Kasten took over as team President and at the end of August, 2012 the Dodgers completed the largest trade in franchise history, acquiring Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett in a
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If we go back to Spring Training and then through April to mid-September, most comments were that the Dodgers would not win enough games this year. Except for Kershaw, nearly every pitcher on this staff has been much maligned. Brandon McCarthy and Brett Anderson were maligned because they were injured.
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The Dodgers pitching rotation has been a merry go round. I want to call the rotation the "Mash Unit" because they always seem to be in the E.R.. The bullpen and hot bats have kept the season afloat. But now as the Dodgers hold a one game lead over the
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The Dodgers announced on Tuesday evening that left handed starter Alex Wood was placed on the 15-day disabled list with elbow soreness. Apparently he’s flying back to Los Angeles to have his elbow examined. As a result the Dodgers have recalled mega-prospect Julio Urias to take his spot in the
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Memorial Day brought game one of a four game series between the team with the best record in the majors vs the team with the most questionable one. Alex Wood returned to the starting rotation in a test of his sore? healed? triceps muscle. The good news was he had a team
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Don’t look now but the Dodgers have won 6 of their last 7 games. The Dodgers escaped New York with a series win thanks to Adrian Gonzalez’s clutch ninth inning two-run single to give the Dodgers a 4-2 win over the Mets on Sunday night baseball in the series finale.
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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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Tonight the Dodgers sent Alex Wood to the mound in the hopes of a win and a sweep of the Cheatin' Cardinals. Those things were not in the cards however, as Wood pitched well enough to win, but the Dodgers reverted to their old habits of scoring early and then
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It seems that things are beginning to turn around for the Dodgers. They battled for a series split with a very good New York Mets club, and have won two of the first three games against the Cardinals in their current weekend series. They’ve won four of their last six
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Tonight's Baseball Tale from Chavez Ravine is of the unlikely bum, Alex Wood, vs the monster from NY, Jacob deGrom. Here's how it played out. 1st inning Puig vs. Mets Dodgers Back to back doubles by Chase Utley and Corey Seager brought in the first Dodgers run of the night. A sac fly by Adrian
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In the second of a two game series at Tropicana Field, the Dodgers sent struggling pitcher Alex Wood to the mound against the struggling Rays. Tonight's question: Quien es mas struggling? 1st inning Alex Wood declared, "Yo soy mas struggling!" And he promptly gave up a solo home run to Brandon Guyer. Nothing
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So the Dodger bats magically came to life in Tuesday night’s 10-5 win over Tampa Bay. The series opener saw the Dodgers blast three home runs, highlighted by Trayce Thompson’s gigantic bomb. Thompson was the offensive star of the night driving in four of the ten runs. Yasiel Puig and
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Fresh off a four-game sweep by the Miami Marlins - the worst team on the east coast - tonight was the first game of the Dodgers trying to prove to everyone, including themselves, that they are not really the punching bags they seem to be. Residing National League West punching bags
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The internet is still abuzz over the hilariously shocking news of Dee Gordon’s 80-game suspension for testing positive for PEDs. Just imagine little Dee was juicing all along. The thought creeps into my head and almost makes me laugh out loud. Don’t let the funny news distract you from the terrible baseball
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