Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Rollercoaster Ryu
The Dodgers had many question marks headed into 2017 but one of the biggest was if Hyun-Jin Ryu was even going to pitch professionally for the Dodgers. By that standard, this season has a been a huge success for Ryu but it has not been without some ups and downs. The downs came first. The …
Steve Perrin nails my thoughts on Chris Paul and the new Clippers
Steve doesn’t write much for SBNation anymore, and I hadn’t been over there in a long time but once the news of the Chris Paul trade had made it to Ferndale, I popped over there to see the take. I was quite happy to see that Steve had returned to give his thoughts and they …
Gary Sheffield is the total base bar at nine
The Dodgers have had little success against the Angels and it shows in the anemic total base games the Dodgers have had against the Angels on the road. Gary Sheffield is the only Dodger to have at least nine total bases in the above scenario. I usually set the criteria at 10 but this time …
Graybeard and Graybeard
I went up to Ferndale (650 miles north of Los Angeles) this week to see my Dad on his 89th birthday. I also had one other goal. When my Dad was in the army he shaved twice a day from West Point to Frankfurt, Germany a span of 22 years. When he retired, the first thing …
LAD 14 game splits – to much good stuff
The Dodgers have a ten game winning streak and have won 13 of 14 games so let us quickly see how they have gone about it. I have a feeling that Cody Bellinger and Alex Wood are heavily involved. Dave Cameron of Fangraphs has a new column in which he likens the Dodgers to the …
Chasing Piazza/Green/McGwire on June 26th
Cody Bellinger continues to make a mockery of baseball blasting two more home runs yesterday. He’s now almost a month a head of the Shawn Green pace of 49 home runs which is the all-time Dodger home run record. As promised, I’ve added the Mark McGwire rookie season to see how Cody is doing on …
Dodgers dominating June
Overall Record – 51/26 – Best record in National League June Record – 18/5 – Already tied for 3rd most wins in the month of June. The record is 21 wins in 1973. As of right now, they have best-winning % in the month of June. Team Split Year W W-L% LAD June 1973 21 …
LAD FFA June 19th-June 25th
Contenders for the LAD Weekly Farm Factory Award for the week ending June 25th: Alex Verdugo collected twelve hits, including five multi-hit games, and walked four times to boot. Over his last ten games, Alex has gone 21 for 42. He’s now pushed his June OPS to 1.043 and overall OPS to .880. Walker Buehler …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 