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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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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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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Just in time for Easter too. There’s nothing more irritating than losing to the Giants. But losing to the Giants on opening day 1-0 is possibly one of the most aggravating ways to lose to the Giants. That’s exactly what the Dodgers did on Thursday afternoon on Opening Day at
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Clayton Kershaw is outstanding on opening day. He never loses. Let’s hope I don’t jinx him this time around because when you give the ball to him on opening day it’s one of the safest bets you can ever make. As a matter of fact, Kershaw is one of the
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On the eve of opening day the Dodgers are busy finalizing their 25-man roster. We already know that Andrew Toles was unfortunately optioned to Oklahoma City and Joc Pederson will be making the roster. The rest of the roster we can probably take an educated guess at. Most of the same
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Every year Daniel Shoptaw, our good friend from Cardsconclave, also known as C70 does a series called playing pepper. In this series he talks to bloggers/writers of all 30 MLB clubs. He asks a number of questions about the Dodgers and we answer him as best we can. He’s actually
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With the free agency freeze that dragged on into spring training, the Dodgers got a look at the top imported free agent that chose to sign with the other southern California baseball club. The Dodgers defeated the Angels 4-2 on Wednesday afternoon in Tempe Arizona, and fans were treated with
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It’s March already! And while many people are focused on setting up office pools for March Madness, baseball fans are already thinking about their potential fantasy rosters and are refreshing themselves on all of the latest off-season moves that have been made as we roll into Spring Training. After all,
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In most respects, the Dodgers had a successful 2017 season. In terms of regular season games won, they were second only to the 1953 side of Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and Duke Snider. They were solid on the road, extremely good at home, and also recorded one of the greatest
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As baseball begins a new and spring training camps start their exhibition schedules, the Dodgers have opened their Cactus League schedule by losing three of their first four games. That means nothing since exhibition games are meaningless, but the club has a brand new slogan for the 2018 season; Determined.
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Spring Training has sprung! Here are some news bits, notes and observances on the Dodgers' Spring Training opening weekend. Inside we'll talk about Matt Kemp, the (so far) unsuccessful Chase Utley as leadoff hitter experiment, and the upcoming kid who's making an early bid to make the team - Max Muncy. There's
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The Dodgers opened up their Cactus League schedule on a gloomy Friday afternoon with a 13-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. The Dodgers slugged four home runs in their first exhibition win and notched 14 hits against the Pale Hose pitching staff. Notably Matt
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In just a few hours Dodger baseball will return to action. At 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time the exhibition season will kick off against the White Sox at Camelback Ranch in Glendale Arizona as we prepare for another exciting season of Dodger baseball. In the Cactus League opener the Dodgers
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Hello everybody, Here comes the first Youtube video of 2018. Inside we take a look at the rumors of a players strike that are flying around. Nobody likes a strike, and although I'm almost always on the side of a union in a strike, it's hard for me to get
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The National League pennant winning Dodgers were a great team in 2017. But they had to improve in several areas from the previous season in order to do that. Two major areas come to mind and it’s important to take a look back and recognize how much that helped the
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