Buried at the bottom of a J.P.Hoornstra piece on Joc Pederson the other day was this note: Mattingly said that he and the front office have discussed adding one more …
Read More »Scott Van Slyke’s Time To Shine
After a successful weekend series in San Francisco, the Dodgers continue their road trip by heading into Denver and Chicago, and something stood out to me when I looked at …
Read More »Dodgers 4, Giants 2: Clayton Kershaw, Most Valuable Everything
On Friday night, the Giants whomped the Dodgers, 9-0. On Saturday night, the Dodgers decimated the Giants, 17-0. For what was expected to be a very competitive series between the …
Read More »Dodgers 17, Giants 0: That Was Considerably More Fun Than Last Night
Do you remember how sad you were at this time last night? Do you? You should. Think about it. Hyun-jin Ryu lasted one terrible inning, then left, injured. You had …
Read More »Dodgers @ Giants Sept. 13, 2014: This Is A Big Game
You know me, and you know I never like to put undue importance on any one game. It’s a long season. It serves no purpose to get overly emotional about …
Read More »A Blowout Is Still Just One Loss, But Dodgers Can’t Withstand Absence Of Ryu
Here’s the good thing about last night’s loss to San Francisco: As ugly as it was, baseball doesn’t award style points. One loss is one loss. Here’s the bad thing: …
Read More »Swinging At The First Pitch Isn’t Yasiel Puig’s Problem
Unsurprisingly, Yasiel Puig‘s massive slump is a big topic of concern these days, and not unfairly so. If you can dig through a lot of the garbage comments around why …
Read More »Padres @ Dodgers Sept. 10, 2014: Dan Haren Eyes That Option
We’ve been talking about Dan Haren‘s $10 million 2015 player option, which kicks in if he gets to 180 innings pitched this year for a while. At various points, as …
Read More »On Why The Dodgers Have To Deal With Hanley Ramirez’ Awful Defense
Hanley Ramirez, as you hardly need to be told, is terrible at playing defense. Ha ha! Here he is being terrible at defense, just last night: GIF Link Not that …
Read More »Padres @ Dodgers Sept. 9, 2014: So Many Relievers To Choose From
I really don’t have anything interesting to say about tonight’s game. Roberto Hernandez is less interesting than Clayton Kershaw. Andrew Cashner is definitely better than Odrisamer Despaigne, but not as …
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