It is a long proven fact that walks kill you. Not the ones you take around the block or in the park, but the base-on-ball type in baseball … unless you are the recipient of those walks, that is. In Monday’s 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers win over the New York Yankees in Game-3 of the 2024 World Series at Yankee Stadium, the Dodgers drew six walks. Of those six walks, two would come … [Read more...] about Walks Kill You
Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
As Dodgers fans well know, Oklahoma City has had a longstanding relationship with Minor League Baseball (MiLB), having joined the Pacific Coast League in 1998 and becoming a Dodgers MiLB affiliate in 2015. On Sunday the team announced that they have changed their team name to the Oklahoma City Comets. (OKC Comets) It is the fifth team name in the organization’s rich … [Read more...] about Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
A Costly Win For Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game-2 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, but it came at an enormous and potentially series-changing cost. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, international superstar Shohei Ohtani drew a five-pitch (unintentional … [Read more...] about A Costly Win For Dodgers
Right Man, Right Time
If you have been a sports fan for any significant period of time, you’re familiar with the axiom – “The right man, in the right place, at the right time.” Kirk Gibson was that guy in the first game of the 1988 World Series, and Freddie Freeman was the man 36 years later in Game 1 of the 2024 October Classic. Perhaps you said – or thought – such in Game 1 of the 2024 World … [Read more...] about Right Man, Right Time
Freeman ‘Breaks’ Dodger Stadium
It was déjà vu all over again. Anyone who saw Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman‘s historic walk-off grand slam home run against the New York Yankees in Game-1 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, and let’s be honest here, what true baseball fan did not, had an immediate flashback to former Dodger great Kirk Gibson‘s historic home run in Game-1 of … [Read more...] about Freeman ‘Breaks’ Dodger Stadium