Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Justin Turner is giving batting average new life
Batting average isn’t the end all anymore when it comes to evaluating the kind of season a player is having but it is can still catch the fans imagination when a player flirts with the magic .400 season. Justin Turner is still at .387, and as the calendar turns to late June he could set …
Alex Wood finds home cooking to his taste
Right now Alex Wood has a career ERA at Dodger Stadium of 1.78 which would place him 6th on the all-time list for pitchers who have made at least 10 starts at Dodger Stadium. The only Dodgers on this list are Sandy Koufax and Alex Wood. Heady company indeed. Anyone who watched J. R. Richard …
Dodger notes as they take aim on the Rockies
Lots of great stuff came through the daily Dodger press release this afternoon. One of the great secrets of a Dodger broadcast is that the Dodgers provide boatloads of stats for the broadcasters to refer to during a game. You can be sure that Joe and Orel will sample many of the stats found below. …
Is Puig the best 8th hitter?
Much has been made about the success that Puig is having hitting out of the eight hole, which led me to wonder if Puig was the best eight hitter in baseball? The simple answer is no. He is, however, one of the best. I used 50 PA as the criteria for this which might be …
Kershaw 102 Game Score rides high
When it comes to game score, breaking 100 is the platinum barrier and Clayton Kershaw broke the barrier with his no-hitter against the Rockies at Dodger Stadium. That is not surprising. What is surprising is that Ted Lilly has the second-best game score against the Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Ted Lilly! This list has all …
Grandal / Kemp lead LAD Total Base leaderboard against the Rockies at Dodger Stadium
Given how hot the Dodger offense is right now, and how badly the Rockie pitching is lately, I could easily see a scenario where this leaderboard gets updated on Monday morning. Yazmani Grandal has the best total base game ever against the Rockies, and he did it last September. Matt Kemp is the only other …
Talk about a rewrite
On Monday, June 19th I posted the best total base games by any Dodgers against the Mets at Dodger Stadium. At the time I was surprised to find that the Dodgers have never had a double-digit total base game with that criteria. That Monday night Cody Bellinger tied Gary Sheffield and Jim Lefebvre with the best …
Fourteen days of glory
This is what it looks like when everyone is hitting. Enjoy it, because it rarely happens that the top of the lineup is in synch with the middle of the lineup, while still having the bottom of the lineup cleaning everything up. Using Fangraphs once again for their fourteen-day splits: I know it is just …
Dodger offense blowing like a Santa Ana
Dodger fans have seen Dodger hot streaks before but I’m not sure they have seen this kind of hot streak. June started off with the normal June gloom but as the weather turned hot, so have the Dodger bats. Fueled by the greatest collection of young talent since the Piazza/Mondesi/Karros days the Dodgers have been …
LAD Single Season HR Leaders
[Updated 08/23/2023] As of 8/23/2023 Mookie Betts has already hit 34 home runs as he tries to claim his 3rd Dodger single season home run title in four years. Mookie Betts claimed his 2nd single season Dodger home run crown by slugging 35 dingers. The slight built Mookie has shown more power the older he …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 