There are moments in a season that define a team. This series against the Colorado Rockies is one of those moments. The Dodgers have gone from a win some, lose some team, to looking like a break away division leader. They took the first two games of the series, and
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It was a great night for the Dodgers and the fans. The Dodgers finally returned home from their longest road trip of the season certainly exhausted yet battle tested. The Dodgers won 6 of the 10 games on the trip including three of the last four in St. Louis over
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It's Yasiel Puig's world and we are just living in it. The Dodgers have won three straight and have tied the St. Louis Cardinals for the 2nd wild card and have pulled within 1/2 game of the Rockies for the NL West lead. The San Francisco Giants snapped an 11
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It looks like reports of the Dodger’s demise were greatly exaggerated. The boys in blue piggybacked off of their exciting 9-7 win in the series opener on Thursday by making a commanding statement on Friday night at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. If the Dodgers are making a statement, they certainly
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You know I joke around a lot about the Dodgers sucking for comedic effect. Sometimes it holds true. You see when a supposed World Series caliber team making a playoff push in September gives up ten runs to the Cincinnati Reds, one of the worst teams in baseball then you
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The Dodgers had an off day yesterday after a pathetic loss against the Mets on Wednesday. The Gauntlet part two this weekend as the Dodgers play three in Coors against the Rockies 1.5 back of them. Dodgers embark on a ten game road trip that will define the season. No
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Just when we thought the Dodgers were dead and buried. Left in the bone yard, they rose from the ashes like a Phoenix to surprise us. Speaking of Phoenix, this game had to stick in their crawl. The Dodgers (king of the solo shots) down 2-1 in the eighth inning
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The Dodgers are one of the worst if not the worst clutch performers in the majors in 2018 and they showed why on Thursday evening during their latest disaster, losing to the Dbacks 3-1 in the series opener. The Dodgers entered the contest winners of their last five in a
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The Dodgers put their modest four-game winning streak on the line tonight, sending Alex Wood, who skipped a start after a bad game against the Cardinals, to the mound in the final of a two-game series against the Texas Rangers. Cody Bellinger cracked the scoring seal with a powerful home run
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The Cardinals certainly made a statement on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium as they defeated the weak ass Dodgers 3-1 in front of an angry sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium. The Cardinals a good young exciting club rallied from a 1-0 deficit to score three runs in the final two
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Joe Davis was blathering on and on about run differential all day during the Dodger’s 12-1 bopping over the Mariners in their series finale at Safeco Field in Seattle. Sure the Dodgers have the best run differential in the National League yet only have the eighth best record in the
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Yasiel Puig was suspended for two games for his scuffle with the Giants' Nick Hundley. At the same time, Miami Marlin Jose Urena was (in effect) only suspended one game for intentionally throwing at a batter. Some folks out there are seeing this through the lens of racism. Here's my
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The Dodgers finally got off the proverbial schneid beating the Giants 4-3 and snapping a five game losing streak. In the process they avoided being swept at Dodger Stadium which would have been quote embarrassing. It only took them 12 innings to do it though. It took 12 innings, 16
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Last night Yasiel Puig and Nick Hundley added another page in the decades-long rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants. That said, this rivalry is starting to feel less like one between two teams, and a feud between one team and one player. Here's my take on last night's bench-clearing basebrawl: https://youtu.be/KJ7_36p6egs
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The Dodgers have thrown everything at their opponents for the past week than an offense and an effective bullpen. The results have been four straight losses to NL West opponents. Tonight, In the second of three games against the Giants, the Dodgers threw lefty Alex Wood out to the mound, with the
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In the weeks ahead as the season winds down, I’ll be analyzing some of the most critical decisions that Dave Roberts and his staff encounter on the road to the playoffs, and perhaps their sixth consecutive National League West Division title. Each decision will be broken down from an analytical,
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