Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Baez in, Joc out
The Dodgers finalized their NLDS roster by adding embattled relief pitcher Pedro Baez to the roster thus going with twelve pitchers and thirteen hitters. I had surmised that Farmer would make the team, and felt that Joc would be the last man standing with eleven pitchers and fourteen hitters but the Dodgers decided they needed …
All eyes on Kershaw & Morrow
Clayton Kershaw has started four straight game one NLDS, and while this will be the first time he will start against a division rival in the NLDS everything else should seem familiar. In those previous four starts, the Dodgers have won two games and lost two games. When they have won game one, they have advanced …
Walker versus Kershaw
With the Diamondbacks blowing through their top two pitchers to win the play-in game on Wednesday it seems likely the Diamondbacks will turn to Taijuan Walker who wasn’t even on the play-in game roster. Something that MLB needs to correct. If you want to limit the advantage of the wild card team, they need to …
James Earl Keen gets me feeling good again
I needed a show to lift my spirits and the James Earl Keen band came through for me on a night that started with me as depressed as I could remember. Between Dad’s dementia /Brother Tom’s Parkinsons / Harvey/Irma/Mexican Earthquakes/Maria/North Korea/Las Vegas/Tom Petty/ I was feeling pretty low as I headed to the El …
Predictions are fun
SB Nation did their postseason baseball predictions and only one of nine contributing editors picked the Dodgers. Eric Stephen who blogs about the Dodgers picked the Nationals in the NLCS, while Grant Brisbee who blogs about the Giants picked the Dodgers for the NLCS. No homers there. I kind of think the Indians will pull off …
Sophomore slamming
The two best players on the Los Angeles Dodgers are a 21-year-old 1st baseman and a 23-year-old shortstop. They will both be ROY winners, and they both will be leaned on very heavily to help the Dodgers move through October. It seemed that Corey Seager had a very quiet sophomore season, but once the 162 …
Was Shohei Ohtani born or built
As I was reading the Dylan Hernandez piece on Shohei Ohtani the thought came to me that if I was going to build a baseball player, Ohtani-San would be what I’d hope to replicate. He throws 100 MPH, he can hit a baseball 500 feet, and now I just read he’s as fast as Billy …
Harder and harder
As things fall apart around us, the Dodgers offer an empty way to hide from the onslaught of carnage that seems to come at us daily. From my space in Woodland Hills I can do little to combat nature’s power, a wannabe monarch, hate from every side as divisions grow deeper. Death seems to be …
Cody Bellinger Splits
You just don’t see many 1st base / Center Fielders so I thought I’d show his splits. Split G PA HR BA OBP SLG OPS as 1B 89 364 30 .299 .382 .667 1.049 as LF 38 149 7 .189 .275 .394 .669 as CF 4 14 0 .250 .357 .250 .607 as RF 5 …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 