Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
“Mighty” Max Steinberg memoralized at the Saban Theatre last night
Max’s family have had a whirlwind of memorials for their fallen son in the past few weeks. The first was an impromptu social media gathering at a local park in West Hills on Sunday Night when news spread like wildfire of his death in Gaza. The second was in Israel when he was buried with …
Dodger teen-age phenom prospect Julio Urias turned 18 today – what Los Angeles Dodgers debuted as teen-agers?
Arguably the best pitching prospect in the Dodger system turned 18 years old today. Julio Urias raised eyebrows all over baseball when he was pitching in Low A ball at the tender age of 16. He has spent all of this summer pitching in High A ball as a 17-year-old, but that all changed …
Atlanta Braves series preview – Hot, muggy, and buggy
The Braves are currently 60 – 57, flaying around for a post season spot. They entered August and promptly lost their first five games, before righting the ship and taking two of three from the Nationals. Since their hot 17 – 8 April start, the Braves are just 43 – 49, hardly the stuff of …
Matt Kemp thirteen game run
Matty did not have the weekend that Adrian Gonzalez had, but he did enough to keep this thread going with at least one hit in every game. Matt now has a modest six game hitting streak, however Sunday was the first time during the streak he had more than one hit. Headed into July 29th, …
Depth or Disaster? You be the judge
The Dodgers have acquired Roberto Hernandez and Kevin Correia over the last five days to help with their starting pitching depth problems. When I think of the worst starting pitcher of the last four years Kevin Correia comes to mind so I thought I’d check to see if this had any validity. Going quick and …
Milwaukee Brewers series positional preview – NL best record at stake
To the surprise of many, the Brewers have the second best record in the NL with 63 wins, compared to the Dodgers leading 66 wins. The Brewers came out of the gates fast, but have cooled off considerably since June, posting a 12 – 19 record since the end of June. It is not surprising …
AJ Ellis is no stranger to homerless game streaks – 871 plate appearances between home runs from 2008 – 2011
AJ Ellis is crossing into historical territory with his homerless streak now approaching 214 plate appearances (208 in 2014). No Los Angeles Dodger catcher has ever come to the plate over 200 times in a single year, and not hit at least two home runs. Granted this is all very premature as AJ still has …
Matt Kemp ten game run
Matty did just enough last night to keep this thread going. While he did not hit any home runs, all in all a very productive night as he got on base three times. Headed into July 29th, Matt Kemp had eight home runs, thirty-eight runs scored, and forty runs batted in with a slug % …
Fausto Fausto Fausto
Ned did what he could to bolster the Dodger starting pitcher depth by acquiring Roberto Hernandez who once went by the moniker of Fausto Carmona until 2011. The price won’t be known for a while as it involved two players to be named later, which was appropriate for someone who used an assumed name for …
The nine game Matt Kemp run
Headed into July 29th, Matt Kemp had eight home runs, thirty-eight runs scored, and forty runs batted in with a slug % of .432 in ninety-five games Today Matt Kemp has fourteen home runs, forty-seven runs scored, and fifty runs batted in, with a slug % of .472 in 104 games For most of this …
