It’s weird to think that there’s real Dodger baseball that counts tonight. In my head, I know it does. I know the Dodgers will either be 1-0 or 0-1 after …
Read More »Reminder: Second Basemen Bat Second
I’ve been making the “second basemen bat second” joke about Don Mattingly for so long that I’m not even sure when it stopped being a joke and started turning into …
Read More »Carl Crawford Possibly Hurt His Shoulder, Dodgers Can’t Have Nice Things
As I told anyone and everyone who would listen to me in Arizona this weekend, the number of 2013 games that the Dodgers had their outfield quartet of Carl Crawford, …
Read More »Mattingly Offers Minor Clues to Australia Roster
Who will be on the Dodger flight to Australia on Sunday? Don Mattingly said this morning that “we’ve pretty much made that decision,” but isn’t prepared to divulge it yet, …
Read More »Maholm Hit Hard, Billingsley Looks Great, Pitching Staff Still Unsettled
GLENDALE, Ariz. — It’s a good thing these games don’t count, because this one was one to forget. Paul Maholm gave up two long homers — one absolutely crushed by …
Read More »Brandon League Isn’t Making Any New Friends
It’s probably not fair to just talk about Brandon League. But it sure is fun. Not as much fun, I imagine, as Josh Donaldson had when he saw this fat …
Read More »Uncertainty Reigns For Dodgers at Second Base
Dee Gordon reached base three times last night against Seattle, and the first two were pretty much the most Gordon successes ever. In the first inning, he hit a chopper …
Read More »Fifth Starter Day: Good For Maholm, Less So For Beckett
Josh Beckett faced 14 batters tonight against Seattle. Seven reached base, and while that’s bad, look at it this way: only four stayed there! …because three (Jesus Montero, Stefen Romero, …
Read More »Hanley Ramirez Did An Unreasonable Thing to Martin Perez
Just look at what Hanley Ramirez did to Texas’ Martin Perez today: Good lord. Spring training and all that, and to be fair, Ramirez honestly hadn’t done a whole lot …
Read More »Liking Seth Rosin Is Just Going To Make It Harder To Let Him Go
It probably says all you need to know about spring training that for the second time in the first week of camp games, I’m choosing to ignore a less-than-impressive start …
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