The Dodgers come home tonight after a better than expected road trip. You might look at the Dodger’s recent trip to New York and Chicago and think them losing 4 out of 7 was an unsuccessful trip. To that I say you are wrong. The trip was very successful if
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The Dodgers started the day with an early game, hoping for a series split against the Cubs, and they brought young Julio Urias to help them get there. The handicap: Justin Turner batting third. THIRD! A travesty. 2nd inning Cubs After 26 pitches, a Joc Pederson error, and a mini-rally, the Cubs took
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The Dodgers played percentage baseball in game three of their four game series against the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday evening and unsurprisingly forfeited the contest which resulted in a predictable 2-1 loss to the northsiders. The Dodgers decided to rest their two biggest offensive threats because a lefty was on the mound
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Another dominating start by Scott Kazmir and an eighth inning rally helped the Dodgers break a scoreless tie and even their series with the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday evening. Kazmir out-dueled Jake Arrieta and the Dodgers were able to score off the Chicago bullpen in their 5-0 win. Tonight the Dodgers
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Karma came back to bite the Mets in the butt on Saturday night. They tried to finally retaliate against Chase Utley and paid the price for it. It resulted in starter Noah Syndergaard and manager Terry Collins getting ejected from the game in the third inning. Utley ended up hitting
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It’s Chase Utley’s world, and we are all just living in it. The Dodgers evened the series in Gotham after they demolished the Mets in a controversial win on Fox‘s Saturday national broadcast. Chase Utley continued his wonderful terrorization of the New York Mets as he slugged two home runs including
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Now that the Julio Urias mania is over with we can get back to our regularly scheduled losing. The Urias debut was an astounding disappointment, but the kid is alright. It was a tough assignment for him and the Dodgers probably should have had him debut in the more comfortable environment of Dodger
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The Dodgers handed the Reds their tenth consecutive loss on Wednesday night defeating them by a 3-1 score and completing a three game sweep. The Reds have now lost nine straight to the Dodgers and the Dodgers have won four in a row themselves. Scott Kazmir pitched the game of
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The Dodgers look for their fourth straight win and a sweep of the Reds tonight in the series finale and final game of the home stand. The Reds have lost nine consecutive games and are looking to avoid becoming the first team in the majors this season to lose ten
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The Dodgers returned home after holding us hostage for the longest game of our lives. Seven hours and seventeen innings later the boys in blue finally emerged victorious by scoring four runs in the top of the seventeenth inning to defeat San Diego. It was Yasiel Puig’s two-run single that
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We can see it. At least half the crowd in Chavez Ravine can see it. But I don't think Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts and his "advisors" can. This team, run on the same strategies that they've tried night after night, is headed straight for Nowheresville - and last time I
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Dodgers vs Padres. Game Two. The returns of Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp. Exciting stuff. Alex "Who knows which way he'll bend?" Wood on the mound. Exciting in an entirely different way. Cut to the third inning: 3rd inning Padres Alex Wood strikes out the side. It looked like Strudy Wood was on, as
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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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The Dodgers travel into San Diego for a weekend set and what better way to get well after suffering another pathetic series loss than to play the lowly Padres. After the Dodgers rolled over to the Angels in the Freeway Series, it’s just a hop skip and a jump down
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The Dodgers evened the Freeway Series on Tuesday night with a 5-1 win over the Angels thanks to another masterful performance from maestro Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw now has 88 whiffs and 4 walks on the season and has struck out 10 or more batters in six consecutive outings. My god that man
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