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Cody Thomas and Carlos Rincon make history
I don’t normally do individual minor league games unless they warrant special attention but the Loons had a quite a historical game last night. The Loons hit seven home runs last night but the more interesting part was that it was done by only three hitters. Yeah, that is kind of cool but not as …
Alex Wood about to pounce on the Vulture
In 1966 Phil Regan won fourteen games as a relief pitcher for the NL Champion Dodgers and earned the nickname “The Vulture” for pilfering wins from the starting pitchers. He also only lost one game and has the greatest winning percentage of any Los Angeles Dodger with at least twelve wins. Eric Stephen explains how …
Cody Bellinger catches a Trout and a Nomar
With his 30th home run last night, Cody Bellinger has now joined a select list of rookies who have hit at least 30 home runs. Cody caught future HOF Mike Trout, Boston great Nomar Garciaparra, Twin great Bobby Allison, and Pete Incaviglia. He also caught Willie Montanez and with one more home run will have the …
Chasing Piazza / Robinson / Green / McGwire with number 30 and catching Montanez
Leave it to Joe Davis and the Dodger research group to throw a wrinkle at me. Here I was focusing on the all time LAD Rookie home run record of 35 by Piazza, the NL Rookie Record of 38 by Frank Robinson, the major league Rookie record of 49 by Mark McGwire, and the all …
King of the Hill once again
Rich Hill won the July NL Pitcher of the Month. He had won the AL award in 2016 in May. Seems like a long time ago that Rich Hill couldn’t pitch and the Dodgers were laboring in late April. Does it seem like the Dodgers are owning the Pitcher of the Month? Would you believe …
Is this the last of Brock?
Brock Stewart will take the mound against the Braves tonight but it might be the last time we see him until September. With the acquisitions of Yu Darvish, Tony Watson, and Tony Cingrani his hold on a spot on the Dodger pitching staff might be in jeopardy. Starting Rotation after this start: Wood, Darvish, Hill, …
Great Lake Loons July Stats Snapshot & Overview
Hitters: Top prospects coming and going. Keibert Ruiz is now in Rancho but Jeren Kendall the 2017 number one pick is playing for the Loons Keibert Ruiz and Cristian Santana would appear to be the only two hitters who have overcome the pitching league and park. I feel what Ruiz did at this level is much more …
A+ – Rancho July Stat Snapshot & Review
Hitters: Top ten prospect Yusniel Diaz was just promoted to AA Tulsa. At 20 Diaz is having a solid season but nothing stands out. He is more about the scouting tools than actual production but we do have to remember he’s 20, even though he repeated the league. 2016 first round pick Will Smith was …
Kenta and Ryu add to their game score leaderboards
Kenta Maeda put up a game score of 78 last night and if you happen to think that was one of his best games ever, you’d be correct. It was the second best game of his career using game score as the criteria. Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc 2016-07-10 SDP W …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 