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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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 got battered and bruised yesterday 14-0. The Dodgers didn't want to get swept against the Astros. Today Gerrit Cole was on the mound to face off against Walker Buehler. Buehler had to be the stopper today. Alex Wood is now on the DL. Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig
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The Dodgers fresh of scoring 21 runs and splitting a series with Brewers last night. Tonight was Andre Ethier retirement night. The Dodgers welcomed the defending champions Houston Astros to the ravine. Alex Wood had to take on Justin Verlander. In the bottom of the first, Joc Pederson hit a
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The Dodgers achieved their first walk-off home run win since Justin Turner’s historic walk-off blast in game 2 of the 2017 National League championship series as Yasmani Grandal’s beautiful walk-off shot off of Matt Albers in the bottom of the tenth gave the Dodgers a 6-4 win over the Brewers
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Yasiel Puig made his triumphant return from the disabled list on Saturday evening as the Dodgers beat the struggling Braves 5-1 to take another one from Atlanta at Sun Trust Park. The Dodgers have won three consecutive games over the Braves with Atlanta pitching issuing 14 walks over the last
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The Dodgers rebounded from the tough loss on Friday night to get the victory last night. So tonight on ESPN the Dodgers concluded the free-way series at the Big A. Andrew Heaney took on Alex Wood. A couple of frustrating things transpired in this game in a series the Dodgers
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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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I thought last season's home run-happy Dodgers were a fluke. Surely they couldn't repeat that kind of power for a second year in a row. Boy, was I wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=799y5Tz1xmo&t=1s
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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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The Dodgers avoided being swept by the Colorado Rockies this weekend, and steamrolled their way to a 6-4 win with a raucous eighth inning rally that began when the resurgent Matt Kemp blasted a solo home run to center field. The Dodgers faithful turned out on a hot afternoon, and the
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At least once a year, the Dodger Stadium marketing team offers up some type of chotchke that I absolutely, positively must have. My Dodgers collectibles showcase already has more than enough bobbleheads, so it was pretty easy for me to resist this year's crop. Then I saw it. I didn't even
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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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The night started out well enough. It was a beautiful Los Angeles evening, and fans were enjoying their new Enrique Hernandez bobbleheads. The new Dodgers ace, Ross Stripling was on the mound, and the Dodgers even broke the seal on the scoreboard early. In the second inning, Max Muncy walked, stole
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