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Lots of Dodger fans are blaming Dave Roberts for using Blake Treinen when Blake has not been successful. They genuinely believe that Roberts is a moron for repeatedly running Treinen out there. I want to make one thing perfectly clear: Dave Roberts is the Game Manager, but he is not the ultimate decision-maker—baseball has changed from the days when Leo Durocher, Casey Stengel, Walter Alston, and Sparky Anderson were managers….

… and they did! Ernie Banks was famous for that saying, and last night the players took it literally as they played 18 innings! My son texted me that he was worried they were going to have Sandy Koufax start warming up in the bullpen in the seventeenth inning. This was a game for the ages. How so? Last night will become known as the Game that Broke the Blue…

Yesterday, Dodger fans were making excuses for Blake Snell: “Well, he hadn’t pitched in 10 days.” So, Yoshi Yamamoto hadn’t pitched in 11 days, and he went nine innings and won 5-1. This is a no-excuse zone, and Blake Snell failed the test. Yamamoto aced it. Like Yoda said, “Try, there is no try – You do or you don’t do!” Make no mistake about this: Yamamoto is the Dodgers’…

Blue Jays aren’t actually blue. Their brilliant blue color of their feathers isn’t from pigment — it’s an optical illusion. Their feathers are structurally designed to scatter light, reflecting only blue wavelengths. If you crush a Blue Jay feather, it turns brown! However, the Dodgers are actually blue… physically and emotionally. The Dodgers arrived with a semi-trailer carrying their press clippings, while the Blue Jays came in a bus full…

Tonight, at 5:00 PDT and 8:00 EDT, the Dodgers will take the field in the Rogers Center to face the Blue Jays. 32-year-old Blake Snell will take the mound against 22-year-old Trey Yesavage. Snell has 10 years of experience and has pitched 1,158 regular-season innings and 70 more innings in the postseason. Trey Yesavage has pitched 14 innings in the regular season and has accumulated 15 innings in the playoffs….

The Dodgers are in Toronto and have a couple of days of practice before Friday’s Game One of the World Series. Everyone is comparing the Dodgers’ position players to the Blue Jays’ Position players as if Vlad Guerrero were pitching to Freddie Freeman or George Springer were pitching to Andy Pages. The starters for the Dodgers don’t pitch to the starters of the Jays. The Dodgers are the better team……

Your Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the NLCS for the 5th time in the past 9 years last night, led by Shohei Ohtani, who had “the best game ever” by a major league baseball player as he pitched six innings, striking out 10 and allowing just two hits and no runs for the win… Oh, and he also hit three home runs! I think it’s the most incredible game ever by…

Around September 1, 2025, I said that at some point, the Dodgers would “flip the switch,” to which many fans called BS. Here is what I wrote: Every year, the Dodgers go through tough stretches, and many fans lose their minds and spew forth vomit about the Dodgers. It happens like this every year. Then I come back and try to explain that baseball is a game of streaks and adjustments to…

After a productive NL Wild Card Series against the Reds (two homers, four RBIs), Shohei Ohtani has gone just 2-for-25 (.080) with two RBIs, five walks, and 12 strikeouts in six games since the beginning of the NLDS. So, yesterday Ohtani hit five rounds of batting practice on the field at Dodger Stadium in an effort to break out of his slump. Shohei rarely hits on the field, opting instead to…

In 2024, Blake Snell threw 114 pitches in a no-hitter versus the Reds — it was his first complete game, and the 114 pitches were just shy of his career high. Last night, he threw 103 pitches without walking anyone, but it was a tough call to take him out. It almost backfired, but didn’t. Blake Snell’s career-high 122 pitches came on July 24, 2019, when he was pitching for…