Tag Archives: Justin Turner

Seven nights, four 3-run home runs, multiple victories, who knew?

Yasmani Grandal blasted a three run home run last night to propel the Dodgers to a 3 – 2 victory.  On Saturday night Justin Turner launched a three run home run to help down the Brewers 10 -6 On Thursday night Trayce Thompson slugged a three run home in a losing cause 8 -6 Last …

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Breaking down Adrian Gonzalez – A platoon player in waiting

Just in case you have also missed what Don Mattingly has missed, Adrian is what some might call a platoon player in waiting. Meaning, that his manager still remembers when he could hit both sides of a pitcher, however the stats now say something has changed, and eventually the winds of change will be upon …

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Is Justin Turner having the greatest LA Dodger 3rd baseman season ever?

No!!! But if you throw out Beltre’s super year, Pedro’s 1983, and all the years of the greatest Dodger 3rd baseman (Ron Cey), he is:)  Kind of interesting the possible future HOF Adrian Beltre only had one OPS+ season above 120 in which he had at least 250 plate appearances. Beltre has had five of …

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Dodger Briefs Aug 25th, 2014 – Turner time

Dodgers took two out of three from the Mets,  picking up one full game on the Giants who lost two of three against the Nationals. The Dodger lead now sits at 4.5 games. Dodger record in August is 12 – 11 but they thanks to the Met drubbing last night, they have only scored 85 …

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Series preview – Mets come to town

The Mets have not had a winning season since 2008, but this could be the last year you can say that. They have several pitching prospects bubbling in AAA, and the major league team is stocked as well with youth and experience. When you look at who will be in the 2015 rotation you have …

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Fluke this – Turner turning point

Eric Stephen can some times be annoyingly johnny on the spot, as he proved once again yesterday. Once again Eric showed the knack of writing the right post at the right time. Yesterday Eric wrote a lengthy piece on the perceived Dodgers trouble to win games they are trailing in. To be exact, before last …

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