Championship caliber teams have strong bullpens. If your team is leaking runs in the late innings then you’re not going to go anywhere in the standings. This explains the 2018 Dodgers, a good team cursed with a gaggle of lousy relievers. Once again the Dodger bullpen snatched defeat from the
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The Dodgers got a great come from behind victory last night. Bad news followed today with the news that Kenley Jansen will be out for a month with an irregular heartbeat, which has happened in the past in the same ballpark. So the Dodgers need to make a bullpen move.
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There aren’t many ballparks that can keep the Dodgers from hitting home runs. The Oakland Coliseum is one of them. It looks like the Dodgers are playing on the moon in that massive Park. Without the benefit of a home run the Dodgers had to play some small ball as
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The Dodgers, newly restored in first place after beating the Brewers in extra innings last night, returned to battle Milwaukee again, and this time with a recently rejuvenated Clayton Kershaw on the mound. After a lethargic past few days, the Dodgers offense roared back to life tonight, starting things off with
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The Dodgers squandered a boatload of scoring opportunities on Saturday in their 4-2 loss to the Brewers at Miller Park. On Sunday afternoon it was the Brewers turn to waste early scoring opportunities as the Dodgers crushed the Crew 11-2 in the series finale. Milwaukee loaded the bases in the
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The Dodgers rebounded from a tough stupid loss on Friday with a 3-1 win over the Angels to even the Freeway Series on Fox Saturday baseball amidst sweltering heat conditions in Southern California. It wasn’t the heat coming from the sun, but from the golden right arm of Ross Stripling who stifled
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The beginning of the freeway series at the Big A. Kenta Maeda was going to go up against Shohei Ohtani. This game turned out to be a pitcher's duel with Felix Pena of the Angels in the sweltering heat. In the bottom of the 2nd, Maeda struck out Ohtani. Maeda
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Things seem to be trending upwards for Clayton Kershaw. The ace lefty made his third start since returning from the disabled list. It looked as if his velocity is ticking up too. Overall he pitched well, and won just his second start of the season as the Dodgers beat the
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I never thought I would see the day when the Dodgers would play an entire game void of anything to complain about. I didn’t think it was possible in this season, but gosh darnit the Dodgers certainly did that in Monday evening’s 17-1 whitewashing of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates
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Rich Hill took the mound against Tyler Anderson as the Dodgers took on the Rockies. Rich Hill pitched his tail off to the tune of 110 pitches. The Dodgers bats were silent most of the night. Matt Kemp has been slumping and Justin Turner hasn't gotten on track. This turned
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The Dodgers decided to use the series finale against the Cubs on Wednesday afternoon as a rehab assignment for two starting pitchers. One was Clayton Kershaw who has only pitched in three innings since his return from the disabled list. The other hurler was young rookie Walker Buehler who is
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If you thought that a comfortable 6-2 lead would give the Dodgers a well deserved sleepy win over the Cubs, then you probably haven’t been paying much attention. Why would the Dodgers do anything the easy way? After Tuesday night’s dreary 9-4 beatdown the Dodgers were looking to right the
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Ok so let’s not talk about the Dodgers getting only two hits against rookie Duane Underwood Jr. and having only three hits through the first five innings. They only needed two of them, an Enrique Hernandez solo home run in the second, and another solo shot from Chris Taylor in
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Boy the Mets can’t do anything right. After losing 8-3 to the Dodgers on Saturday night thanks to a pinch-hit grand slam home run from Matt Kemp, the Mets were trying to avoid being swept and lose their twelfth consecutive game to the Dodgers. If you’re wondering why I’m talking
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Welp folks Dodger baseball is certainly fun again. Thanks to a huge power surge and some timely pitching. The Dodgers beat Madison Bumgarner and the stupid Giants by a 3-1 score on Saturday night baseball televised on Fox. The pitching matchup pitted southpaws Bumgarner against Alex Wood. The Dodgers and
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There was a 53-minute rain delay that pushed the start of the Dodgers/Pirates series opener back about an hour. When the game got underway the Dodgers certainly rained on the Pittsburgh faithful with a commanding 5-0 victory. The Dodgers have now won 14 of their last 18 games and more
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