Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
The absolute best thing about the Giants losing
was that I won’t have to listen to whiny Dodger fans explain how lucky the Giants are over and over to justify how they and the Cardinals have pretty much owned National League 21st century baseball. How lucky have the Giants and Cardinals been in the 21st century? Three World Championships for the Giants, Two …
Murphy drives in four
but Dodgers still manage to eek out a one-run victory to send both teams back to the Nations Capital for the deciding game five on Thursday night. On Monday the Dodgers held Murphy in check and lost handily 8 – 3, on Tuesday Murphy, drove in four of the Nationals five runs and yet the …
David Ross shoves Bob Boone aside
Driving home from the exhilarating Dodger game I had a hard time finding the Cub/Giant game but finally zeroed in on .830 on the AM dial to hear Dan Schulman and Aaron Boone. A few minutes later Ex-Dodger David Ross slugged a home run and the only thing notable about it was that it had tied …
The decision awaits
Dodger fans had to wait until almost midnight to find out when the Dodgers would be playing today but that decision was based on a specific outcome. The Dodger front office has a bigger decision to make as they consider multiple variables and ramifications. They have a 20 team analyst staff, numbers will be crunched, …
Dodgers shut down Murphy
and that was about all they did right on Monday, losing to the Nationals 8 – 3 leaving them having to play must win baseball on Tuesday. On the pitching side, things went wrong from beginning to end. Starter Kenta Maeda made it three straight poor starts by the Dodgers, and Kenley Jansen had what …
Dodgers can’t score, Hill can’t finish
The story after three innings was Rich Hill setting a bizarre Dodger record. Hill recorded seven strikeouts in his first three innings something no other Dodger had ever done. The twitter and blogging world were agog with his success but it seemed that maybe they hadn’t noticed that Hill needed a Houdini double play to …
How important was winning game one?
According to the Dodgers pre=game notes for game two, pretty damn important. In Dodger postseason history, the club is 6-0 in series when winning Game 1 of a best-of-five set, advancing in the 1974 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh, 1978 NLCS vs. Philadelphia, 1981 NLCS vs. Montreal, 2008 NLDS vs. Chicago, 2009 NLDS vs. St. Louis and …
As postseason games go, this game had soul
I’ve been reviewing postseason box scores looking for historical games to write about, and I’ll have to admit if I saw this box score twenty years from now, it would not strike me as a particularly interesting game. That is the problem with box scores of games you never saw, they don’t really tell the …
Three years ago today Juan Uribe lit up LA
The Dodgers have had several notable games on October 7th, but maybe none more memorable than the Juan Uribe game on 10/7/2013. Eric Stephen had all the special moments. Craig Minami and I were seated in the Loge down the left field line so we got a great view of that majestic home run. I feel …
Can Kershaw do his part?
By asking that question, what I mean is, can Clayton keep his team tied or better by the time he’s lifted by Dave Roberts? Max Scherzer will be a stern test, it could very well be much like Wednesday’s game when Thor/Bumgarner threw zeroes at each other. The difference in the game was that Thor …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 