Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Schebs and Kemp go boom boom & boom
I can’t help but LIMH when a player I like has a big day. Tonight Scott Schebler and Matt Kemp made me smile as the two ex-Dodger right fielders wrecked havoc upon their competition. Matt Kemp helped the Dodgers by blasting a three run run home run to lead the Braves to a 3 – …
Julio Urias has Erv Palica next on his list
With eight more strikeouts Julio Urias is moving up the all-time Dodger strikeout leader-board for pitchers 20 and under. Julio already has the most strikeouts in LAD history for a 19 year old, so I thought I’d mosey over into all time Dodger territory. An area I rarely tread onto but I go where the …
Day time Adrian Gonzalez ready to rumble
I knew Adrian was doing great work during the day but I didn’t know until the Dodger notes came out this morning that he has been the best day time hitter in baseball this year: González leads the Majors in batting average in day games, hitting .395 (51-for-129) with a .448 on-base percentage, 12 doubles, …
Kris Bryant shows why he is the MVP frontrunner
I tried to make a case for Corey Seager the other day for MVP but after watching Kris Byrant slug two important home runs on Friday Night, the road sure got tougher. I was even playing with the idea of starting a daily checklist of who did what as we enter the last five weeks …
Bochy throws wussification out the window
It can’t be an easy position to be in. Your pitcher is throwing a no-hitter but racking up the pitch counts. At some point, you have to say enough and go get him, but to Bruce Bochy’s credit, he let Matt Moore take it to the limit going 132 pitches before Corey Seager broke up the …
A.J. will never score another run for the Dodgers
That seems sad that Ellis last scored for the Dodgers on May 1st. [Update to this: David Young at TBLA pointed out to me that the last run that A.J. Ellis scored for the LAD was the 1 – 0 game Clayton Kershaw pitched on May 1st. The best part is that Ellis was driven …
Streaky catchers – Zunino on fire
Gary Sanchez may be smoking hot in NY, but Mariner Mike Zunino is not far behind and his story is even more unlikely. Gary Sanches is just starting his career, but last year it looked like Zunino was ending his. Zunino was the 3rd pick in the 2012 draft and was in the majors by …
Gary Sanchez doing things never done in pinstripes before
No one can deny that the Yankee’s are baseball’s royalty with a long successful storied history that began when Babe Ruth first donned those pinstripes. Yet in that long history, no Yankee has ever done what Gary Sanchez has done this month. Last night Sanchez slugged his 9th home in only his 18th game thus …
After the Rich Hill debut, which column will he fall into, Greg Maddux or Brad Penny?
When it comes to tradeline debuts Brad Penny is the one that always comes to my mind for several reasons. When DePodesta traded for Penny in 2004 it was a huge gamble as he traded the most popular player on the Dodgers (Paul LoDuca) without securing a proper backup catcher when Charles Johnson decided he didn’t …
That was worth waiting for
Rich Hill’s long-delayed debut for the Dodgers turned out to be an exceptional debut, as Hill blanked the Giants for six innings. That is not a misprint, a Dodger pitcher got 18 outs that was not a rookie. Very impressive for a guy who hadn’t pitched an inning in any game since July 7th. Justin Turner …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 