The Dodgers Bullpen has pitched 36.2 innings in the playoffs this year. The Braves bullpen has pitched 23.2 innings. The Dodgers bullpen is tired. Let me remind you that many of your mocked and ridiculed me when I suggested resting the pitchers the last two weeks of the season and concede the division to the Giants. I wanted to win the WAR, not the battle. Well, they did not do…
I am not sure why, but it seems like this season the Dodgers have to do things the Hard Way. Now, that they are down 2-0 they are going to need to win 2-3 games in a row, and in typical Dodger fan fashion, the bitching and blaming has begun! You complain about Roberts taking Scherzer out of the game, even though it was obvious he had no fastball because…
Unfortunately, the Dodger hitters did not execute. As good as Mookie Betts was in Game 5 of the NLDS, he stunk it up last night. Chris Taylor committed an unforgivable base-running blunder and I want to remind all the IDIOTS that wanted to get rid of Cody Bellinger that they are just that: IDIOTS! See, I took a lot of flack from fans (some of whom have left this blog…
This first item falls under the category of “that Ship Has Sailed.” I had always predicted big things for Kike Hernandez. In fact I likened him to JD Martines. I had hoped that Andrew Friedman would keep him, but ultimately Kike wanted to start, and Boston gave him that opportunity. He racked up 585 AB’s for Boston and hit 20 HR while OPS’ing .786 with a .250 BA and a…
This has to be short and sweet. I have some early meetings… The game started after 9:00 last night, so it was late… Yes, the Giants won the NL West. Yes, they won the season series with the Dodgers. The Dodgers had to win the Wild Card Game to get into the playoffs. They did and now they have finished the Giants season. My wife got home at about 8:45…
I hear some Dodger fans write or say that the Giants are just having their way this year, that the Giants are just lucky, that they have the Dodgers number. I hear that some don’t trust Joe Kelly, Kenley Jansen, or several other pitchers. I say that they are a bunch of Negative Nellies, to which they say “No, that is not true. I am positive… that I am negative.”…
Mookie Betts, Corey Seager, Treat Turner, Will Smith, Gavin Lux, and Cody Bellinger all had two hits last night. That’s a lot of hits! Twelve to be exact to go with five walks. Everybody hits or nobody hits… well JT took a collar last night as did CT3, but hopefully, they can pick it back up tomorrow. Justin Turner is hitting .059 in the NLDS, so he is due… BIG…
In this NLDS, the Dodgers and Giants have played three games. The Dodgers have outscored the Giants 9-7. The Dodgers have outhit the Giants 21-16. The Dodgers are hitting .208 while the Giants are hitting .176. The Dodgers have a .252 OB% while the Giants have a .208 OB%. The Giants have outhomered the Dodgers 4 to 1. The Dodgers ERA is .2.06 while the Giants is 3.00. The Giants…
I was 11 when the Dodgers won their first World Series in L.A. Living in Highland Park at a home for kids. I had gone to my first games at the coliseum in 1958. We went to about 5 games during the 1959 season. The Dodgers had replaced long-time retiring SS Pee Wee Reese with Don Zimmer. Zim had some success in previous seasons with the Dodgers and it was…
My advice is “Don’t be one!” In case you don’t know, hammers are dumb. Hammers have never had an original thought. Hammers can be loud, at times, but they are really stupid! They can’t think. But then when you go to the hammer store and pick up a bag of hammers, you really have a bag of dumb, thus the saying “Dumber than a bag of hammers!” Don’t be that…