Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
LAD Double leader by Season
Corey Seager led the Dodgers in doubles in 2019 with 44 and hit his 44 doubles in only 541 plate appearances while Shawn Green hit his LAD best 49 doubles in 691 plate appearances. The best double per plate appearance for a LAD seasonal leader is Corey Seager in 2019 at 12.3 doubles per plate …
Rendon and Cole aren’t coming to Los Angeles
I spent some time trying to figure out how the Dodgers could get Anthony Rendon when it dawned on me that I’m just wasting my time. The Nationals are going to the World Series and Anthony Rendon is going to stay in Washington. Gerritt Cole is probably going to the World Series and while he …
It’s complicated
Has there ever been a more complicated relationship in Los Angeles sports than what Dodger fans and future HOF Clayton Kershaw are going through right now? How many times can the Dodgers be knocking on the door only to have the guy with the biggest knockers be the one who doesn’t knock the hardest when …
Great beginnings sometimes end in commiserated sorrow
Is it possible to have a good time at a game that ends a team’s season? When you go to a game by yourself you don’t have the luxury of picking who you hang out with, you get the luck of the draw. Sometimes you get lucky and find yourself enveloped around good fun Dodger …
Ouch, this one hurts
It isn’t that the Nationals aren’t a talented team, they are, but when you have a 3 – 1 lead in the 8th inning with your whole bullpen still at your disposal your expectations for victory are pretty damn high, so when the season goes to hell in a handbasket in a matter of seconds …
Ridiculous!!!
I’m not one to make a ridiculous statement unless I mean to, so when noted baseball historian Bill James said I’d made one on twitter and to look up the facts, I had no choice but to look up the facts and see if I indeed had made one. This was what Bill James tweeted: …
Walker set the proper pace for game one
Dave Roberts had a good game on Thursday Night, but his best call was the most important. Dave went with Walker Buehler to start game one, and Walker didn’t disappoint, hurling the Dodgers to a 6 – 0 victory. How good was Walker Buehler? Only eight pitchers have given up zero runs, one hit or …
Here we go again
The last time the Dodgers and Nationals met in the postseason was the classic 2016 NLDS when the Dodgers had to win games four and five or face elimination. They won both, but game five didn’t come easy and is probably one of the best NLDS games in Dodger history. In 2016 the Dodgers turned …
Dodgers rookies continue to excel
Edwin Rios is just the latest Dodger rookie to shine when given the chance for playing time. None of the five rookies that have gotten playing time have struggled, as all five of them now have an OPS > .800. Back in the spring of 2018, Edwin Rios was having a fine spring and was …
Having fun with Will Smith
Will Smith hit two more home runs last night giving him nine home runs in his first twenty-three games. To put that into perspective I looked at all the home runs for LAD catchers in their first 25 games: Mike Piazza hit one AJ Ellis had zero David Ross had six The infamous Jack Fimple …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 