Having lost six of their last 10 games, Dodgers fans received some much-needed good news following their team’s 5-2 win over the NL Central third-place Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on Monday. Nearly three weeks after 34-year-old Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy sustained a left knee bone bruise in a collision with White Sox outfielder Michael A. Taylor on July … [Read more...] about Muncy Could Return Sooner Than Expected
You Just Never Know
Obviously, we will never know what might have happened had Dodgers pinch-runner Hyeseong Kim not been doubled up at second base on a hard line drive out to Red Sox second baseman Ceddanne Rafaela by Dodgers right fielder Teoscar Hernández for a rare unassisted double play for the final out of the top of the eighth inning in the Dodgers 4-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway … [Read more...] about You Just Never Know
A Rough One For Kersh
The Dodgers lost to the Boston Red Sox by a score of 4-2 at historic Fenway Park on Saturday. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that it was 37-year-old Dodgers future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw who suffered the loss to go 4-2 on the season and increase his ERA to an un-Kershaw-like 3.62. Although most Major League pitchers would kill for a 3.62 ERA, … [Read more...] about A Rough One For Kersh
Dodgers Win on a Dramatic … Walk
Although the Dodgers outscored and outhit the Boston Red Sox five and 10 to two and five respectively in their decisive win at historic Fenway Park on Friday evening, it was an under-the-radar third-inning / nine-pitch walk of 32-year-old Dodgers right fielder Teoscar Hernández by 26-year-old Red Sox right-hander Brayan Bello that allowed Dodgers designated hitter and … [Read more...] about Dodgers Win on a Dramatic … Walk
The Sho Must Go On
It seems like it’s never a matter of if, but what inning. On Wednesday afternoon, that inning was the bottom of the first with one out in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 40,094. That’s when 31-year-old Dodgers international superstar Shohei Ohtani launched a 79-mph curveball from 29-year-old Minnesota Twins right-hander Chris Paddack 441 feet into the Left Field … [Read more...] about The Sho Must Go On