After 32 Years, The Drought Is Over

October 28, 2020

CLAYTON KERSHAW GETS HIS RING!!! We can put the Kirk Gibson HR and the Orel Hershiser team celebration into the Smithsonian, because we have new LA Dodgers World Series heroes.  It took the 3rd time in 4 years for the Dodgers to finally cross the Championship line.  Mookie proves to be a difference maker not only for the game but for a World Series Championship team.  Corey Seager ends a…

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Kershaw Grinds LAD to Victory in Game 5

October 26, 2020

What a difference a night makes.  After last night’s game I commented that the Dodgers need to come out swinging in the 1st against Glasnow.  Mookie Betts leads off with an 8 pitch double followed by a run-scoring Corey Seager single, two wild pitches and Seager gets to third.  JT strikes out, Muncy walks, Smith K’s and Belli comes up and gets an infield single to score Seager.  After a…

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Dodgers Relievers Blow Another WS Game

October 25, 2020

The Rays are in the WS for a reason.  They are good and they never quit.  Let me get the negative out of the way.  I have been a Dave Roberts supporter throughout the postseason, but I have also said that there is no way that I would bring Pedro Baez in with runners on base.  You want to make a change from Treinen?  Okay, that was at least an…

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GAME THREE RECAP AND SOME RANDOM PLAYOFF THOUGHTS:

October 24, 2020

 Showdown between the Rays top pitcher, Charlie Morton (Joe Buck will tell you over and over again that he’s absolutely great!) and Walker Buehler.   As in most games, the Dodgers had several objectives:              1.         get off to a good start;             2.         run up Morton’s pitch count;             3.         Keep Buehler’s pitch count down;             4.         Keep the Rays off the bases; and             5.         Score more…

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