Clayton Kershaw: Dodgers Season Comes Down to Ace on Three Days Rest
Don Mattingly made a damned-if-you-do, damned if-you-don’t decision before Game 3 of the 2014 NLCS vs. the Cardinal on Monday and, no, it had nothing to do with trimming his sideburns. The Dodgers...
View ArticleYasiel Puig Benched For Game 4 of NLDS
Yasiel Puig has struggled in the NLDS. At one point he struck out in seven consecutive at-bats before tripling in Game 3. Before that, way back on Friday, Puig had two hits and scored three runs, but...
View ArticleMatt Adams Homer Ended Clayton Kershaw's Night in NLDS Game 4
Your browser does not support iframes. Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers might want to petition baseball to eliminate the seventh inning of playoff games, at least against the St. Louis...
View ArticleAndrew Friedman: Four Questions for the Dodgers New President of Baseball...
Andrew Friedman was named the Los Angeles Dodgers’ President of Baseball Operations earlier this week. The move to pry Friedman away from Tampa Bay materialized, seemingly out of nowhere, on Tuesday...
View ArticleJoe Maddon Opts Out of Tampa Contract, Cue the Don Mattingly Watch in LA?
Buster Olney dropped this fairly significant bit of baseball news on Friday afternoon: Joe Maddon is opting out of his contract to manage the Tampa Bay Rays in 2015. This news is surprising but maybe...
View ArticleGabe Kapler to the LA Dodgers Front Office? Misadventures in Twitter Direct...
Gabe Kapler, who has been a baseball analyst with Fox Sports 1 and appeared on the MLB whip around coverage, may be going to the Los Angeles Dodgers in some front office capacity, if his apparently...
View Article2015 World Series Odds: Dodgers, Nationals are Joint, Early Favorites
The 2014 baseball season is over. The Giants won another World Series, did you hear? Madison Bumgarner was awesome and received a new Chevy Truck. The new season doesn’t begin until April, 2015 but...
View ArticleThe Dodgers Keep Making Moves, But Have They Improved & Does That Matter...
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I decided to re-watch the second season of Deadwood in the course of like two days. In the final episode of the season (“Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To”) the season’s off-camera...
View ArticleBaseball Winter Meetings: Winners, Losers & Everything Else
So … those baseball Winter Meetings sure escalated quickly, eh? Let’s take sort of a “spread gun from Contra” approach and try to tackle as much as possible with a fun, fresh winner/loser format....
View ArticleArizona GM Dave Stewart Calls Diamondbacks a True Baseball Team, Not Like...
Dave Stewart, now the GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks, lobbed a grenade at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ front office while doing an interview with Arizona Central Sports on the offseason moves. The...
View ArticleZack Greinke Offered A Refreshingly Honest Opinion on the Dodgers Whirlwind...
Andrew Friedman made a flurry of moves after taking over baseball operations of the Dodgers last fall. The former Rays executive reshaped the National League West winners, creating a little bit of...
View ArticleGiants Broadcaster Says Yasiel Puig is "Just Young and Dumb" for Considering...
Hey what do you know, it’s been quite a while since somebody got angry about Yasiel Puig. So here’s a story about just that on a cold Tuesday in February. Last week Puig was quoted saying something to...
View ArticleMastodon's Brent Hinds Wore a Full Dodgers' Uniform to the Grammys
Brent Hinds sings and plays guitar for the Grammy-nominated metal band, Mastodon. The band attended the Grammys and Hinds wore a full Los Angeles Dodgers uniform – specifically, #23. Now, since there...
View ArticleMLB Least Valuable Players For 2015: The National League
Yesterday we handed out the 15 Least Valuable Players in the American League. Now it’s the Senior Circuit’s turn. As a reminder, this isn’t tracking the worst players in the National League, rather...
View ArticleClayton Kershaw Took a Line Drive to the Face Against Oakland
Your browser does not support iframes. Los Angeles Dodgers’ ace Clayton Kershaw took a broken-bat line drive to the left side of his face in the bottom of the 3rd inning against Oakland on Friday. The...
View ArticleYasiel Puig Knocked Out of Game After Collision With Howie Kendrick
Yasiel Puig and the Los Angeles Dodgers shared a terrifying moment during a preseason game against the Angels on Thursday night. Puig had a collision with Howie Kendrick in the 5th inning on a pop-up...
View ArticleJoc Pederson Made a Juggling Catch, Reminded Dodgers Why They Traded Matt Kemp
Your browser does not support iframes. Joc Pederson made this juggling catch Thursday night in an exhibition game with the Angels in Los Angeles. Over the winter the Dodgers traded Matt Kemp, in part,...
View ArticleYasiel Puig's Throwing Arm Remains Utterly Ridiculous
Your browser does not support iframes. Yasiel Puig delivered his first eye-opening highlight of the 2015 season Tuesday night in the Dodgers loss to the Padres. It took Puig until April 7 (or April 8...
View ArticleYasiel Puig Says He Won't Be Flipping His Bat As Much
GIFs are the backbone of our modern, pageview-driven economy. They exist in the ether of the Internet, often no more than a Google search away. There isn’t, however, an official GIF Hall of Fame or...
View ArticleTime Warner-Comcast Merger Falling Apart Won't Help Dodgers Game Actually Air...
One of the nice technological advances in modern life is that if you’re a baseball fan and want to watch an out-of-market game, it’s possible with no more than a few taps on your phone or tablet...
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