Category Archives: 2017 Dodgers
LAD first half leaderboards – Batting Average
With so many Dodgers having amazing first halves, we will be displaying the historical significance of those performances. Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger will populate these boards, but will anyone else show up? Justin fell from .380 but not only walks away with the best first half batting average, good bet he will be on top …
Dodgers ho hum their way to another sweep
With another Dodger victory, this is getting ridiculous 61 wins at the all-star break 10 series sweeps 18 of last 19 at home Three hot teams have come to Dodger Stadium and three teams have left with their confidence shaken. Rockies/Diamondbacks/Royals are 0 – 9 against the best team in baseball. I guess the Dodgers …
Future’s game Dodger style
Two twenty-one-year-old prospects will be headed to the 2017 Future’s game to represent the Dodgers in Miami. They are both going to be playing for the World team. The game will be played on Sunday, July 9th in Miami. If you want to know who the best prospects in the game are, this is the game …
Hill/Wood/Kershaw have three things in common
Two are obvious. They are all left handed. They are all Dodgers. But did you know that over the last fourteen days they are also the three best pitchers in the NL? Fangraphs tells us, this is so: (this snapshot only worked if viewed on July 7th, 2017) Before the snapshot changes, this is what …
Rich Hill puts another win on the Dodger wall
Rich Hill and Logan Forsythe were two of the last holdouts this year in the summer of the Blue, but both have joined the fray, and the team looks unstoppable. For the 3rd straight start, Rich Hill worked seven innings and now has twenty-seven strikeouts to only three walks over his last three starts. That …
Alex Wood makes it six all-stars
With the announcement that Alex Wood has been picked as a replacement all-star the Dodgers now have six 2017 All-stars. Even if the baseball All-Star game does not float your boat, as a Dodger fan you have to be excited to see this incredible team rewarded. They all deserved it, no gimmie’s here. 1st/LF – …
Justin Turner currently in the company of Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn
Can Justin Turner keep his batting average above .380 by the all-star game? With Alex Wood his 1st half season is done so we know we will end the first half with a perfect 10 – 0 record. Only 15 hitters since 1958 have managed to have at least a .380 BA by the all-star …
Old Tyme stats kicking butt
Alex Wood is 10 – 0 in the first half but starter wins aren’t supposed to mean anything anymore Justin Turner is hitting over .380 just before the break but batting average isn’t supposed to mean anything anymore since we have wRC+ to hang with now. So why is everyone celebrating the batting average of …
The Campaign Continues
Dodger fans at the game tonight were treated to Orel Hershiser and Justin Turner putting on the Ritz as they combined on the Nations birthday with a memorable moment. At the same time, Dodger fans listening to Joe Davis got a glimpse why he is filling the big shoes of Vin Scully very well. Orel took …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 