Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Daily NL Wild Card race update 09/09/16
Close games but everyone won except the Pirates so no real changes took place except that Miami is now even with the Pirates at 5 games back. Still Giants by 1/2 a game over the Mets and the Mets 1/2 game over the Cardinals, with Miami/Pirates both five games back of the Mets. The Giants …
Magnificent home Fernandez to much for the Magic of the Starting Toles and the Return of the King
Dodger fans got a taste of what it is like when the rest of baseball faces Clayton Kershaw if they watched Jose Fernandez toy with the potent Dodger lineup last night. As has been documented over and over Jose Fernandez is virtually unbeatable at home, and last night he showed why. Striking out fourteen in …
Looks like the Dodgers just added a left-hand hitting outfielder
Just as Andrew Toles gets his second start in a row tonight, he looks in the rear view mirror and sees Andre Ethier coasting into Miami. According to the pre-game Dodger notes Andre is headed to Miami and at some point this weekend, possibly even tonight the Dodgers will be activating the longest tenured Dodger giving …
Sound of the Dodgers – Starring Vin Scully
Craig Minami mentioned that vinyl was hot so I started going through all my vinyl and found this in my Mother-In-Laws collection. She actually had two, one used and one still plastic wrapped. Need to get my turntable back up and running. I took apart my music center and when I put it back together it …
Wild Card Race is Giants to lose
With the Giants playing so poorly that they have basically ceded the NL Western Division Championship to the surging Dodgers, can they even hold onto a Wild Card spot? Every Dodger and Giant fan can tell you that the Giants won their last championship by getting into the play-in game but can they even get …
Dodgers two-headed platoon in RF is tearing it up in September
Right field was a black hole for the Dodgers in August, with Josh Reddick having one of the worst months in LAD history this century for an outfielder, and Yasiel Puig doing his thing in AAA. The only saving grace for the month was the work of Toles who came up on August 21st. September …
An almost perfect Puig and a plethora of pitchers are too much for the Diamondbacks Ray of sunshine
Puig ruined my headline by making an out in his final at-bat but that was his only fault on a night when he reminded Dodger fans once again that they now have a potent right-hand bat back in the lineup against left-hand pitching. For the second time in the past four games Puig blasted a …
When starting, Toles just keeps on hitting and winning as Shelby gets shelled
Andrew Toles now holds a 12 – 2 record when Dave Roberts decides to start him. In a rare day off for Howie Kendrick, Roberts was able to find a spot for Toles in LF. Well, not quite a day off for Howie, as Dave felt Howie needed to pinch hit even though he had …
Baseball America checks in on Cody Thomas
Raw tools galore for the ex-quarterback, Baseball America gives an update on his progress: Cody Thomas, cf, Dodgers. The former Sooners backup quarterback has shown the rawness you’d expect from a player who skipped playing baseball in 2015 to focus on football, but he’s also shown athleticism and power. Thomas blasted his 15th homer—second in …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 