Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
National media taking notice of Dodgers
This morning the Washington Post posted an article about how the Los Angeles Dodgers are making a mockery of the National League. It was a well-written story with some key points. The nature of baseball prevents teams from winning nearly 80 percent of their games. But that’s what the Dodgers have done for nearly a …
Keibert and Santana show
In a game I should have gone to considering two of my favorite prospects were playing, Dennis Santana hurled another seven innings, while Keibert Ruiz blasted a three run walk off home run in front of the unimpressed Craig Minami. Dennis Santana pitched seven innings again, marking the fourth time Santana has gone at least …
Can the Dodgers win 110 games?
A few days ago I showed how weak the Dodger 2nd half schedule was and Dan Szymborski chimed in today also showing how weak the Dodger second half schedule is. According to Dan, the Dodger 2nd half opponents have just a .476 winning percentage based on their win/losses as he wrote the article. The Dodger record …
FFA Week of July 9th – July 16th
The contenders: Wilmer Font – started in the PCL AAA All-Star game on Wednesday and threw one scoreless inning. Followed that up with six innings, three hits, one earned run, zero walks, and eight strikeouts on Sunday. Font continues to excel at AAA as he waits to see if his production will turn into a …
Bellinger leads the Marlin Total Base Leaderboard
Cody Bellinger not only hit for the cycle on Saturday night he put up the greatest offensive night against the Marlins by a Dodger in Miami. Player Date Tm Opp Rslt PA H 2B 3B HR TB RBI Cody Bellinger 2017-07-15 LAD MIA W 7-1 5 4 1 1 1 10 3 Raul Mondesi 1995-04-25 …
Saturday – Saturday for Cody Bellinger
Cody Bellinger woke up last Saturday in a slump, his OPS had dropped from a high of 1.021 on June 25th to .948 on Saturday Morning. He hadn’t hit a home run since June 25th. Had the league figured him out? Was he worn out from all the media coverage of his crazy start …
Of course he did
Joe Davis called it right “Of course he did” as Cody Bellinger added to his legendary season by hitting for the cycle in Miami tonight, and he did it the hard way, hitting a triple to complete the cycle. I’m extremely pleased because he replaces Orlando Hudson as the last Dodger to hit for the …
Oh, come on
At some point, the Dodgers had to lose so this game seemed as good as any for that weird streak of having won 39 straight games that they once had a lead come to an end. Top of the 9th, down by one run Two out, two strikes, Joc Pederson slams a single into RF …
What is Dee Gordon?
It has been 2 1/2 years since the Dee Gordon trade that had all sorts of moving parts. Over those three years, we have won the trade several times, lost the trade several times, and even now, have to wonder just who is Dee Gordon? Is he the batting champion of 2015? His first year …
Midseason Prospect Rankings coming in
David Hood was the first with an update prospect list, and he published it this morning. MLB did their update last year around July 20th and that is when we will be looking for it this year. I was pleased to see that David was aggressive on Keibert Ruiz and Dennis Santana the two prospects …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 