Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
LAD 2016 1st Base postmortem
Adrian Gonzalez has been the Dodger full-time 1st baseman since he was acquired on August 24th, 2012. Adrian made about as big a splash as anyone could, slugging a memorable three-run home run in his first Dodger at-bat. At the time of the trade, the Dodgers were three full games back of the Giants, they would …
Justin Turner leaves an amazing legacy
With the season now over and possibly his Dodger career let’s take a look at the amazing accomplishments of Justin Red Dream Turner. At 28 years old Turner was a career utility player who was inexplicably released by the Mets in the winter of 2014. Ned Colletti jumped on the chance to get the valuable …
Cubs do everything, Dodgers do nothing
Instead of changing Dodger history, the Dodgers decided to replicate the 2013 game six failure. In that elimination game six with Kershaw on the mound on the road the Dodgers lost 9 0 to the Cardinals. Last night they only lost 5 -0 because Dave Roberts used Kenley Jansen to finish up the game and season. …
History isn’t in the Dodgers corner
Since 1941 the Dodgers are 0 – 6 in a seven-game postseason series where they have trailed 3 games to 2. They are 0 – 2 in the NLCS when trailing 3 games to 2. 1985 – Cardinals closed it out in the sixth game in Los Angeles. The infamous Jack Clark game who slugged three-run home …
Fox Deportes, they go high, Fox One goes low
If you are like me and you get a gag reflex when Mr. Buck opens his mouth you have two options. You can mute him, or you can find an alternative station. I decided to find an alternative station because muting eliminates the sound of the crowd, and much like Vin Scully I love to …
Back to Chicago
where the Dodgers will pin their hopes that Kershaw and Hill can deliver two wins to the shell shocked team. Nothing has gone right over the last two nights, starting pitching, relief pitching, defense, and offense all failed resulting in two blowouts by the Cubs. No need for a recap, it was all ugly. Roberts picked …
Kenta not Kershaw
will start for the Dodgers in Game 5. A fairly controversial decision given how poorly Kenta Maeda has pitched in his last four starts. He has yet to have a decent postseason game, and Kershaw just won his last game 1 – 0. You can see the reasons for either choice: Kenta – Pros He’s much …
Three no hit innings
was all we got last night when it came to highlights. Thanks to Dave Young I was able to join the sold-out crowd that came to Dodger Stadium to see the youngest starting postseason pitcher in history and for three innings he gave them what they came for. The fourth spot in the Dodger postseason …
2002 WS Rookie hero versus 2016 Rookie wonderkid
Game four of the NLCS has a tasty pitching matchup coming up tonight. The 37-year-old John Lackey has now thrown 131 postseason innings but once upon a time he was what Julio Urias is now, but just a little older. Lackey was a rookie in 2002 and only threw 108 innings during the regular season …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 