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The day that Clayton Kershaw embarrassed me at the futures game
Doesn’t seem possible that Clayton Kershaw’s futures game was almost ten years ago but father time doesn’t lie. It was the summer of 2007 and I was lucky enough to get invited to San Franciso to watch the Future’s game by a friend of mine who was headed up to see his wife’s father. His …
LAD All-Stars 2000 – 2017, Clayton Kershaw era
Here is a link to all of the LAD All-Stars. Quick 21st-century LAD All-Star notes: The most all-stars this century are the current six in 2017 The Dodgers have a rookie all-star three years in a row with Joc Pederson, Corey Seager, and Cody Bellinger. This will be Kershaw’s 7th straight all-star appearance. Andre Ethier, …
Adam Liberatore J.P. Howell hand in left handed hand
Adam Liberatore is breaking LAD scoreless appearance records in 2016 that J.P. Howell was setting in 2015. Adam has appeared in 38 games this year, and given up a run only one time. He’s made 24 straight scoreless appearances. His strand rate is 92%. He’s been what J.P Howell was last year at just about …
Dodger bullpen hits all-star break with breathtaking July
Until Kena Maeda decided to have the game of his young Dodger career, the Dodger rotation in the past week had gotten 15 / 10 / 12 / 15 / 14 / 9 / 15 outs respectively from their starters leaving the bullpen to pick up the pieces. The magnificent bullpen was more than up …
Yasmani Grandal – by the numbers
Grandal hit three home runs last night, and could have had a shot at a home run cycle. Grandal hit a solo home run in the 7th, a two-run home run in the 1st, and a three-run home run in the 3rd. At one point it looked like he might be able to come up …
Ryan Schimpf?
I pride myself on not only knowing every major league baseball player but most of the players expected to play in the major leagues, so when the Padres called up 28-year-old Ryan Schimpf, I had the same reaction that just about everyone else had. Who? Every year a few minor league journeyman get lucky enough …
LAD Rookie hitting streaks – by the numbers
Corey Seager had his hitting streak ended at 19 games. That streak doesn’t stack up very high against all time LAD hitting streaks, but it was good enough for 2nd place among LAD rookies. Below are three tables showing the LAD Rookie data. For the complete baseball reference list, click here. Raul Mondesi stands out …
It takes a lot to score a LAD catcher
AJ Ellis has now gone 74 at-bats without scoring a run. I was wondering how that places him historically so I ran the numbers this morning and to no one’s surprise the leaderboard is filthy with catchers. Doug Camilli sits on top of the scoreless leaderboard with 105 at bats over 36 games. He basically didn’t …
Wild Card race – Pirates don’t know if they are coming or going
The Dodger lead in the wild card race is starting to dwindle, and the main culprit is the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just a few weeks ago the Pirates were being declared dead, and silly rumors of them trading off pieces were surfacing. No one is more Jekyll and hyde than the Pirates, and right now they are …
Chase Utley’s six hits – by the numbers
Chase Utley collected six hits in yesterday’s loss to the Orioles, the most he has ever collected. Six hits is a special number in baseball, a feat accomplished only 103 times in the history of baseball. Chase Utley was the 3rd oldest player to collect at least six hits in a game. The oldest were …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 