Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Puig – Nobody – Pederson – Seager – Bellinger
Home runs are up all over baseball and nowhere is that more apparent than at Dodger Stadium where rookie after rookie keep launching home runs. Prior to 2014, the most LAD rookie home runs was the magic 35 by Mike Piazza in 1993. The 2nd most was 23 by Frank Howard back in 1960 before …
Oh come on now. That was crazy
Cody Bellinger hit one of the most unexpected home runs I’ve witnessed from my kitchen. It was so unexpected I left my chair, and decided this would be a good time to make a brownie sundae instead of watching Andrew Miller carve up the rookie. Yet, Cody Bellinger is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. And …
Cleveland Indian preview
The Dodgers have made only one trip to Ohio to play the Indians and that was back in 2003. We won’t have any notable game scores or total base games based on a three-game series fourteen years ago. Just in case you were curious David Ross has the only home run against the Indians in Ohio. …
Rick Monday was the first
Fifty-two years ago Rick Monday was the first player ever drafted in a major league draft. For most fans it might be hard to reconcile the idea that there was no draft in baseball until 1965. That any kid from any state or country could sign with any team that he wanted too provided he …
Dodgers draft a Panda
Baseball America with a great review of Jeren Kendall. This kid sounds like a lot of fun. That’s one quirk. Here’s another: Much like the late artist Prince, Kendall has become synonymous with a symbol. A Panda emoji. He’s used it in all of his Instagram captions for a year now. His intrasquad team in …
Did the Dodgers just draft Jonathan Villar or Carl Crawford?
Based on the pre-draft rankings the Dodgers just stole their number one pick Jeren Kendall with the 23rd pick. I’ll be misspelling Jeren for a while unless I get to write it often. MLB had him as their 6th top prospect. Baseball America had him at 18. John Sickels felt he was a top ten …
No June Gloom for Dodgers
June Record 6 – 4 Overall Record 39 – 25 Position – 1 1/2 games back of the Rockies By sweeping the potent Reds the Dodgers moved over .500 for June and kept the Rockies in their sights. The Rockies won seven in a row until yesterday, so it was imperative the Dodgers make hey …
Dodgers newest weapon – the Piggyback
With the plethora of starting pitching who can’t pitch past the fifth inning, the Dodgers may have found a way to turn a struggling asset into a strength. Two weeks ago when they moved Ryu to the bullpen he piggybacked with Kenta Maeda to give the Dodgers a 7 – 3 victory over the Cardinals. …
The Big Red Machine is coming into town
This ain’t the Bench/Morgan/Perez/Foster version but this version kicks ass the same way. The offense was already one of the best in the National League this year, but they have ratcheted it up a notch in June, and have been the best hitting team in June. Talk about firing on all cylinders: Name OPS wOBA wRC+ …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 