Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Chasing Piazza on June 19th
For twenty years it looked like Mike Piazza’s LAD rookie record of 35 home runs would stand the test of time. Since 2015, however, it has had Dodger rookies taking good cuts at it. Puig never had a chance in 2013 given he didn’t get started until June but still hit 19 home runs in only …
Two Cubans take the FFA for week of June 12th
Multiple Dodger prospects had huge hitting performances for the week ending on June 18th. It was a tough call who to pick for the weekly FFA award and ultimately I had to split the award between our Cuban positional prospects Yusniel Diaz and Jose Fernandez. Both Cubans have gotten red hot in June and …
Starters getting it done in June for Dodgers
Overall Record – 44/26 June Record – 11/5 Position – 1 game back of Rockies Highlights of June so far: Only six Dodgers have made starts in June so far. Four of the six starters have an ERA under 3.00. Four of the six starters have an OPS against below .600 One starter is looking …
Dodgers hitters roll through Ohio
Overall Record – 44/26 June Record – 11/5 Position – 1 game back of Rockies Highlights of June so far: The Dodgers swept the Reds at Dodger Stadium and on the road in a span of ten days, and they did it without Clayton Kershaw pitching in any of the six games. They have won …
Alex Wood almost cracks game score leaderboard
During the broadcast tonight, Joe Davis and Orel starting talking about game scores. Orel was wondering if the current game score by Alex was close to the brilliant game that Clayton pitched. Joe correctly said no because Wood only had five strikeouts. At the time Wood had a game score over 80 which is excellent …
Howie Kendrick and Yordan Alvarez
While it might seem that everything the Dodger front office turns to gold, it isn’t true. Last year at this time I was noting how Howie Kendrick could not drive in a run as a starting left fielder. Eventually, Howie got that figured out and was basically the de-facto starting left fielder until Andrew Toles …
Do the Dodgers have a pitching problem?
Maybe? The Houston Astros currently have four of their five starters on the disabled list. Their projected rotation the next five games reads like this. Fiers, Paulino, Musgrove, Peacock, Martes That from the team with the best record in baseball. Their best pitcher Keuchel will be back shortly but the Lance McCullers won’t be. Colin …
This wasn’t how I drew up the Dodger season
Kind of expected the Dodgers to eventually be the best team in the West but I’ll be honest I kind of figured that meant: 1. Adrian Gonzalez was the 1st baseman 2. Andrew Toles was the LF 3. Chris Taylor was in AAA 4. Cody Bellinger was in AAA 5. Urias had settled in as …
Pump the brakes
I blame Vin Scully for my reticence to acknowledge that a rookie has made it no matter what they are doing. I’m startled sometimes by the things that are blazed into my brain when so many more important things fail to adhere. It was with my full support back in 1983 that Greg Brock had supplanted …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 