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This wasn’t how I drew up the Dodger season
Kind of expected the Dodgers to eventually be the best team in the West but I’ll be honest I kind of figured that meant: 1. Adrian Gonzalez was the 1st baseman 2. Andrew Toles was the LF 3. Chris Taylor was in AAA 4. Cody Bellinger was in AAA 5. Urias had settled in as …
Pump the brakes
I blame Vin Scully for my reticence to acknowledge that a rookie has made it no matter what they are doing. I’m startled sometimes by the things that are blazed into my brain when so many more important things fail to adhere. It was with my full support back in 1983 that Greg Brock had supplanted …
Puig – Nobody – Pederson – Seager – Bellinger
Home runs are up all over baseball and nowhere is that more apparent than at Dodger Stadium where rookie after rookie keep launching home runs. Prior to 2014, the most LAD rookie home runs was the magic 35 by Mike Piazza in 1993. The 2nd most was 23 by Frank Howard back in 1960 before …
Oh come on now. That was crazy
Cody Bellinger hit one of the most unexpected home runs I’ve witnessed from my kitchen. It was so unexpected I left my chair, and decided this would be a good time to make a brownie sundae instead of watching Andrew Miller carve up the rookie. Yet, Cody Bellinger is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. And …
Cleveland Indian preview
The Dodgers have made only one trip to Ohio to play the Indians and that was back in 2003. We won’t have any notable game scores or total base games based on a three-game series fourteen years ago. Just in case you were curious David Ross has the only home run against the Indians in Ohio. …
Rick Monday was the first
Fifty-two years ago Rick Monday was the first player ever drafted in a major league draft. For most fans it might be hard to reconcile the idea that there was no draft in baseball until 1965. That any kid from any state or country could sign with any team that he wanted too provided he …
Dodgers draft a Panda
Baseball America with a great review of Jeren Kendall. This kid sounds like a lot of fun. That’s one quirk. Here’s another: Much like the late artist Prince, Kendall has become synonymous with a symbol. A Panda emoji. He’s used it in all of his Instagram captions for a year now. His intrasquad team in …
Did the Dodgers just draft Jonathan Villar or Carl Crawford?
Based on the pre-draft rankings the Dodgers just stole their number one pick Jeren Kendall with the 23rd pick. I’ll be misspelling Jeren for a while unless I get to write it often. MLB had him as their 6th top prospect. Baseball America had him at 18. John Sickels felt he was a top ten …
No June Gloom for Dodgers
June Record 6 – 4 Overall Record 39 – 25 Position – 1 1/2 games back of the Rockies By sweeping the potent Reds the Dodgers moved over .500 for June and kept the Rockies in their sights. The Rockies won seven in a row until yesterday, so it was imperative the Dodgers make hey …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 