It was impressive, but it was a matter of too little, too late – again. It was a mammoth 405-foot solo home run a quarter the way up Dodger Stadium’s Right Field Pavilion by just-off-the-IL Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy off of Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Ranger Suárez to lead off the bottom of the fifth inning. It gave the Dodgers a (brief) 2-1 lead in Monday’s … [Read more...] about Too Little, Too Late
Mad Max
In a word: Unacceptable. For the second time in as many days, 35-year-old Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy was hit by a pitch thrown by a San Francisco Giants pitcher. And though both pitchers (32-year-old right-hander Joey Lucchesi and 32-year-old right-hander Matt Gage respectively) will emphatically insist that neither was intentional, you will be hard pressed to convince … [Read more...] about Mad Max
Here We Go…
Sitting in third place 8.0 games back of the National League West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers with only 16 regular-season games remaining isn’t what you would consider a good position to be in for the 74-72 San Francisco Giants. Then again, leading the division by only 2.5 games with only 16 regular-season games remaining for the 82-64 Los Angeles Dodgers isn’t exactly what … [Read more...] about Here We Go…
‘Going Through It’
To be brutally honest, there isn’t (wasn’t) a sole on the planet who didn’t see this one coming; well, except maybe Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, that is. With the game tied at 1-1 with one out in the bottom of the 10th, and with Giants pinch-runner Christian Koss (for placed-runner Wilmer Flores) on third base after Dodgers right-hander Tanner Scott unintentionally walked … [Read more...] about ‘Going Through It’
One-Hit Wonderful
Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow had a night on Monday. A great night. All the 32-year-old Newhall, CA native and fifth-round draft pick in 2011 by the Pittsburg Pirates out of Hart High School in Santa Clarita, CA and acquired by the Dodgers on December 16, 2023 did was allow one run on NO hits (that’s not a typo) in the National League West first place Los Angeles … [Read more...] about One-Hit Wonderful