With 20 regular-season games remaining for the Dodgers in 2024, utility infielder/outfielder Gavin Lux is slashing a respectable .251/.313/.393/.706, with 10 home runs. However, the 26-year-old Kenosha, WI native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2016 out of Indian Trail High School in Kenosha has driven in 46 runs in the 121 games in which he has appeared this season, … [Read more...] about Another Game-Winner For Lux
Beyond The Babe?
Dodger fans are blessed to be alive during the Shohei Ohtani era. They are even more blessed that he will (presumably) be wearing a Dodger uniform through the 2033 season. Simply put, the 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native is our generation’s Babe Ruth … only better. A bit bold and presumptuous, you say? Perhaps, but consider this: although Ohtani’s current 215 career home … [Read more...] about Beyond The Babe?
Angels Pick Wrong Poison
If ever there were a ‘pick your poison’ situation for 72-year-old Angels manager Ron Washington, this was it. With the score tied at 2-2 after nine, Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy led off the top of the 10th inning by grounding out to Angels second baseman Brandon Drury to advanced Dodgers placed runner Tommy Edman to third base. Edman then scored on a clutch single to left … [Read more...] about Angels Pick Wrong Poison
‘Unacceptable’
Immediately following Dodgers right-hander Bobby Miller‘s 11th start of the 2024 regular season which ended in an ugly 10-1 loss to the Angels of Anaheim at The Big A on Wednesday night, a noticeably annoyed Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters that the performance of the 25-year-old Elk Grove Village, IL native and Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2020 out of the … [Read more...] about ‘Unacceptable’
The New Guy
It was another one of those “Remember the time…” games that Dodgers fans will be talking about for years to come. In this case, it will be “Remember the time the Dodgers led off that game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with back-to-back-to-back home runs?” Those three-back-jacks came courtesy of Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, right fielder Mookie Betts, and first … [Read more...] about The New Guy