Category Archives: 2016 Dodgers
Dodgers end season on a red note
allowing the Giants to enter the postseason without even having to play the Cardinals for the right to do so. Starting the same three pitchers who will try to beat the Nationals, the Dodgers failed to win even one game losing by a combined scored of 19 – 4. The starters only gave up nine …
See you in March, Mr. McCarthy
Any chance of Brandon McCarthy making the postseason roster went up in smoke last night. A sad ending to a tough year for the good-natured McCarthy. He started the season in rehabilitation over the TJ surgery he had last spring and surprised everyone by being able to pitch his first major league game of 2016 on …
Urias ends season needing one more K
to tie Ralph Branca for most strikeouts for a Dodger by the end of their age 19 baseball season. Obviously, Julio Urias holds the LAD record for most strikeouts for a LAD by the end of his 19-year-old baseball season, having passed Joe Moeller months ago. Joe had 46 and his record stood since 1964. …
Roster?
Everyone seems to be discussing what the 25 man roster will be for the first round. Tonight Urias should have cemented his hold on being the number one option to start game four. The Dodgers should enter the postseason with nary an injury among their position players. As healthy a group as they have had …
Grandal and Joc
As the Dodgers wind down September baseball, two huge reasons for optimism this October are the play of Grandal and Pederson. Last year the Dodgers were pretty much on the same pace but the team had two black holes in the lineup every time Grandal and Pederson were in it. Not this year, they are …
Dodgers blogs check in on an incredible weekend
Eric Stephen hits a perfect note Pedro Moura fills in for Andy Cut4 at MLB.com says they have everything you need to see and hear about Vin’s last game at Dodger Stadium. Jon Weisman is churning out story after story but this was one was what I was looking for or maybe it was this …
The magic of 58
I’m going to turn 58 on Nov 24th this year. I was born in 1958 and I told Dave Young how cool I thought this was, that I was born in 1958 and would be celebrating my 58th birthday this year. He was unimpressed. But you know, 1958 was a pretty good year. I was …
A Hollywood ending that even Hollywood couldn’t write
The day that should have had so much promise started out with the horrible news that baseball had lost one of its great stars in a fishing boat accident. Winning a pennant now seemed inconsequential. Witnessing the last calls of Vin at home was already going to make for a stressful day, losing Jose Fernandez …
Yazmani Grandal and the big RBI game
Since Yazmani Grandal joined the team in 2015, he has had some big games, so how does his big games compare against his Dodger peers over the same time span? Pretty damn good. If we look at LAD since 2015 to have driven in at least five runs: Eleven times in that period a LAD …
Grandal and the LAD switch hitting home run numbers
LAD Switch Hitters with two or more home runs in a game: 38 times a switch hitter has hit at least two home runs in a game Grandal has now done it four times in only two years Reggie Smith did it six times over a three year period 1976 – 1978 Eddie Murray did …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 