Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Yamamoto tells Blake Snell to hold his Saki
Just yesterday we talked about the greatest Dodger NLCS pitching performances and Yoshinobu Yamamoto decided he wanted his name on the Dodger NLCS leaderboard. Pitching the first complete game in a Dodger NLCS since Orel Hershiser in game seven of the 1988 NLCS against the Mets, Yamamoto not only stamped his name on the NLCS …
Did Blake Snell just pitch the greatest NLCS game in Dodger history?
Blake Snell takes over first place with the top Los Angeles Dodger NLCS game score with his masterpiece last night on 10/13/25. It had been fifty-one years since a Dodger had pitched that great a game score but was it the greatest NLCS Dodger game ever? Snell, Sutton, John all pitched brilliantly but they were …
Blake & Blake bookend the Dodgers to 2025 NLCS game one victory
Game one of the 2025 NLCS was a game that will be talked about forever in both Dodger and Brewer lore. You had Blake Snell throwing the greatest NLCS game in Dodger historyYou had the craziest baserunning blunder by the Dodgers since the 2005 NYM fiasco. You had Freddie Freeman hit an actual moon scraping …
About that pitching depth
The famous line “You can never have enough pitching” was once again proven true for the Dodgers in 2024. The rotation appeared loaded, and along with the pitchers in AAA, and other key pieces eventually coming off the IL you didn’t think this would be a season in which Brent Honeywell would be making the …
Pitching / Pitching / Pitching
The Dodger rotation at the end of the 2023 season was basically Kershaw / Miller / Lynn and possibly Pepiot if they needed that fourth starter. Which was one broken pitcher, a rookie, a home run prone fill in, and another rookie. Now, that wasn’t how they started 2023, the expectation for the 2023 rotation was Urias …
Braves / Dodgers double down on Boston Lefties
This is just fascinating to me. The top two organizations in major league baseball did the following this winter. They both acquired a 34 year old very talented when healthy hard throwing oft injured lefty who were both featured in the Red Sox rotation last year. Braves trade a highly regarded 40 man player who …
A Triple A bonanza of riches
Having followed the Dodgers for 55 plus years now, the winter of 2023 is unique to me in that the Dodgers have a plethora of actual pitching prospects who are banging on the major league door. By plethora I mean TEN, we are lucky to usually have one or two. Several of these pitchers have …
Dodgers Bautista win 2023 Dominican Summer League Championship
by beating the Pirates two games to one in the three game Championship series. The Dodgers lost the first game of the series 7 – 5, but won the 2nd game 7 – 5 by scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th. In the final game, they scored 4 quick runs, and broke …
Eduardo Quintero Dominican Summer League MVP?
The Rookie leagues for 2023 are done, and since the Dodgers had so many interesting players on their two Dominican League teams along with the Arizona Complex League, I thought I’d take a stroll through the stats and see what stood out. Nobody stood out more than 17-year-old Eduardo Quintero who dominated the Dominican Summer …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 