I feel sorry for the Dodgers fans who drank the swill this year. If you did, I’m sorry to tell you this, but pitching wins championships and the Dodgers entered the postseason with one of the weakest staffs in 50 years. If you think a staff with old and injured
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We've made it. The Dodgers open their National League Division Series on Saturday night against the Arizona Dbacks at Dodger Stadium. The Dbacks finished with just 84 regular season wins, but snuck in as a fifth seeded wild card. They swept the Brewers to advance to the NLDS. The Dodgers
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The Dodgers clinched the National League West division title on Saturday night at T-Mobile Park in Seattle with a 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners. The Dodgers exploded for five runs in the top of the eleventh on three flare singles from Max Muncy, Chris Taylor and Enrique Hernandez to
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The last time I wrote was right before the August 1 trade deadline. The Dodgers were still trying to figure out their pitching and had a slim lead in the NL West over the Giants and Dbacks. The Dodgers traded for complimentary pieces, such as former fan favorite utility player
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The Dodgers are at home playing a weekend series against the Cincinnati Reds. The trade deadline is looming on Tuesday, and the Dodgers have already made several trades. They acquired shortstop Amed Rosario for Noah Syndergaard from the Cleveland Guardians in a one-for-one swap. They acquired old friends Enrique Hernandez
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For the second consecutive night, the Dodgers shutout the Angels with another 2-0 victory in Anaheim to sweep the short two-game set. The first game Clayton Kershaw tossed seven shut out innings. In the second game on Wednesday it was the bullpen of all people that delivered with nine shutout
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To say the Dodgers are struggling these days is an understatement. They’re 5-10 in June, have dropped to third place in the National League West Standings and just got destroyed at home by their arch rival Giants. Those same Giants are now ahead of them in the standings. The Bullpen
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Only a good Dodger losing streak can bring me out of my writing funk. It seems like the more things go wrong for the Dodgers, the more fuel I have to write. I’m half joking but as the Dodgers enter tonight’s rubber game against the White Sox they sit at
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The winter meetings have concluded while the baseball offseason marches on as we continue towards the Christmas and New Years holidays. As customary in the Andrew Friedman era the Dodgers are standing still while all the other teams around them are making moves and improving their rosters. We watch as
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Game 2 of the NLDS was filled with mistakes by the Dodgers as they choked away the home field advantage with the result ending with San Diego defeating the Dodgers 5-3 to even the series at one game each. The Dodgers played a sloppy game. There were errors on defense,
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The Dodgers took game 1 from the Padres on Tuesday night in the opening game of their NLDS at Dodger Stadium. The boys in blue jumped out ahead early scoring five runs and everything looked like it was going to be a blowout. Chavez Ravine jumped and screamed with excitement
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The Dodgers clinched their ninth National League West division title in ten years with a 4-0 win over the Dbacks in the desert on Tuesday night. The Dodgers did it behind another dominant Clayton Kershaw start and home runs from Joey Gallo and Freddie Freeman. Kershaw tossed seven shutout innings
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What could bring me out of my month and a half long writing slumber? A perfect game of course! On Friday night the Dodgers massacred the Angels 9-1 in Anaheim as Clayton Kershaw flirted with a perfect game. The Baby Boomers had Sandy Koufax, but we have Clayton Kershaw. It's
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The Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 2-0 on Thursday night at Chavez Ravine. It was a tight pitching duel between Tijuan Walker and Dodger’s right hander Tony Gonsolin. The win was memorable since it snapped the club’s three game losing streak (after being swept by the Pirates) but perhaps
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Dave Roberts pulled Clayton Kershaw in the middle of a perfect game while the Dodgers were playing in Minnestoa this week. I'm sure you heard something about it. A lot of people supported the decision and cheered. People like this sort of story. You know the skipper hooking Kersh and
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Welcome back! Despite Commissioner Manfred's best efforts to blow up the game he simultaneously runs and hates, the Owners and players finally reached an agreement on Thursday afternoon to end the 99-day long MLB lockout. I'm working right now, so can't add much at the moment (I'll have more later) but spring
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