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Bill Sudakis – always in my heart
Bill Sudakis was a power bat switch hitting 3rd baseman who arrived in Sept of 1968 with great fanfare. The 1968 Dodgers had an anemic offense, so anemic that Len Gabrielson would lead the team in home runs with a mere 10. That is not a typo, that has been one of the best baseball …
Corey Seager keeping pace with Piazza
The LAD offense continued to sputter last night but not Corey Seager who launched a massive home run to right center against ex – Dodger Grienke. Legend has it that Grienke was pleased when the Dodgers drafted Seager, to bad he didn’t stick around to pitch with him behind him. Seager’s 15th home run moved …
Arizona Diamondback Preview 06/13/2016
The Diamondbacks went all in this winter much as the Padres did last year, and the results have been pretty much the same. Padres were out of the race by the all-star game in 2015, and unless things change dramatically for the Diamondbacks that will be the same story in 2016 for them. Much of …
SVS watches the Dodger offense do nothing
A rookie manager not only has to learn about his team and their strengths, the fans of the team get to learn the same about the rookie manager. The one thing I’ve learned so far this year, is that David Roberts has a strange affinity for Howie Kendrick in LF. With Carl Crawford finally being …
Trayce Thompson – Steal of the Deal
With Andre hurt, Puig struggling, and Crawford now gone, it is a good thing the Dodgers pulled the trigger on the three-way trade that brought Thompson to the Dodgers. Frankie Montas was supposed to be the key to this deal and may still be, but right now Thompson has been the steal of the deal. …
Urias will be first LAD teen-ager to pitch at Dodger Stadium since Fernando
While most of the hoopla has gone out of the fact that the Dodgers have a 19-year-old pitching in their rotation, it is still an extremely rare event. Just about every time he takes the mound he breaks ground that hasn’t been trod on in decades. No LAD teen-ager as has pitched at Dodger Stadium …
Corey Seager holding court
Five days ago Corey Seager had hit nine home runs and was just about to crack the LAD leaderboard for home runs by a shortstop. Since then, Corey blasted five more home runs and is poised to break all sorts of records this June. For now he can be satisfied with having the fourth most …
Corey Seager moving up the leaderboards
Just five days ago we were waxing eloquently about how Corey Seager was going to be breaking into many of the record books for shortstops. Evidently Corey was not satisfied with being at the precipice of the leaderboard, so he had another crazy weekend and has now put himself squarely in those leaderboards. On June …
Cory Seager is going to be a record breaking machine
This season will probably have a lot of posts about Cory Seager and in the beginning it will center about what he has accomplished as a 22-year-old LAD shortstop. Sometimes however his age won’t be involved. For example with his home run last night, Jon Weisman noted that Seager tied the LAD SS May franchise …
Chase stand alone as Cubs / Dodgers get ready to square off
Being Memorial Day I didn’t have time to write a preview but I did find this little nugget interesting while perusing the Cubs record. The Cubs are 34 – 14, with seventeen wins in both April and May. The Cubs have a losing records against three teams. All three of those teams reside in the NL Western …
