Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Matt Kemp your NL Batting Average Leader
Even if you don’t subscribe to batting average being part of the cool club, it is still something to marvel at when Matt Kemp leads the National League in batting average after two months of the season are in the books. Notice I did not say he leads the NL in hitting as that is …
Dodger debuts are always special
Position player debuts are exciting but there is something different when it is a starting pitcher. Especially a starting pitcher who is considered a bonafide prospect and not someone just filling in like let’s say, Stephen Fife. Yeah, this is going to be a long list. Not as long as I thought it was going …
Dennis Santana about to go where no Dodger has ever gone before.
The pressure over making your first major league start must be heady stuff, but imagine making your first major league start at Coors Field? That is what Dennis Santana is going to do tonight and no Dodger has ever done this. Below are the Dodger who have made starts at Coors within their first five …
Ross, Walker, Kenta, and KJ lift the heavy load in May
The Dodgers were one game into May when they lost Clayton Kershaw for the whole month except for one start on May 31st. They lost Ryu two games into May. Later they lost Rich Hill. Kenley Jansen came into May staggering but left swaggering. With 3/5 of the starting rotation on the disabled list for …
Dodger offense in May provided by two unlikely sources and one that Dave Roberts seems oblivous too
The Dodgers didn’t have a great offensive month in May as they were ranked 11th in wRC+ at 90 but they did have some solid performances, with most of the production coming from their 1st baseman but not the one you would have expected. I sort this by plate appearances because I think it gives …
May starts and ends the same way
The Dodgers recovered some of their moxie in May with a boatload of surprise performances but in a month of bad news, they finished the month with even more. On May 1st Clayton Kershaw pitched six innings and left the game with bicep tenderness and would miss the rest of the month until he made …
Let’s talk about Caleb Ferguson
Last week Caleb Ferguson was promoted to AAA to pitch for the Oklahoma Dodgers at the age of twenty-one. Caleb earned this promotion by being the best pitcher stat-wise for the Dodger AA affiliate Tulsa team. You could argue he was the best pitcher in the Texas League and I would not disagree if we …
Dodger Draft fun, 2013 version
The 2018 major league draft is just a few days away and everywhere you look you can see a draft story so instead of swimming against the tide, we will just flow with it. CBS Sports did a breakdown of the 2013 major league draft in which both 2017 Rookies of the Year came from. …
Ex-Dodgers flourish for Tampa for one night
Three ex-Dodgers who now all pitch for Tampa and had seen nothing but tough times put all that behind them for one night as the three combined to pitch a one-hit shutout over the Oakland Athletics. First up was Nathan Eovaldi the fireballing right-hander who was traded by the Dodgers to the Marlins almost exactly …
Kenta Maeda has the best two game stretch in his three year career
Fresh off of his best game ever in the major leagues, Kenta followed it up with another gem giving him a two-game, game score total of 164, by far his best two games back to back. Kenta has had only five games out of sixty-six starts with a game score >= 75 and two of …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 