Los Angeles Dodgers

By Joe Pawlikowski Let's take a look at what SI.com's Jon Heyman has for us today. The Padres might be looking to slash their already-low payroll. With Kevin Towers, Paul DePodesta, and Sandy Alderson on staff, they might be able to do it. The question is of how competitive they'll be in '09. For more on the topic, ch...

By Tony Jackson In his past two starts, Derek Lowe has pitched 14 shutout innings, all against the Snakes, and allowed a TOTAL of six hits. Over his past five starts, he is 3-1 with a 1.02 ERA (four runs, 35 1/3 innings). This guy has survived the late stages of a playoff race before and emerged from it doused with...

By Tony Jackson We got an official explanation for flipping Kershaw and Maddux in the rotation, although the key word here is ``official.'' Joe said Clayton pitched so well on Tuesday night against the Pods (seven-plus innings, three runs on three hits) that he is being kept on an every-fifth-day schedu...

By Azreous Nothing fancy here, folks. I'm sure Jim's grateful to not have to do the recap tonight, as Lowe pitched masterfully and the Diamondbacks put up a completely feeble effort to try and stop him. The Fangraph sums it up better than I could. God-Emperor of Suck: Dan Haren, -25.9%

 CA - Dodger President Jamie McCourt is expected to attend, as are a host of Dodger stars of the past including Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda, Don Newcombe, ...

 MO - The 35-year-old has also been plenty good on the Dodger Stadium mound this season, having amassed an 8-5 record and a 2.64 ERA in his 15 home starts. ...

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By Tony Jackson A couple of you have written in response to a Las Vegas Review-Journal story in which 51s owner Don Logan says he half expects the Dodgers to end their player-development agreement with his club. I looked into this matter this morning, and while I have very little concrete information, it s...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) ELSTER, Kevin FREY, Lonny FURCAL, Rafael GAGNE, Greg GARCIAPARRA, Nomar GILLIAM, Jim HERNANDEZ, Jose HU, Chin-Lung (*) KENT, Jeff LEFEBVRE, Jim LOPES, Davey MAZA, Luis OLIVER, Nate OZUNA, Pablo REED, Jody REESE, Pee Wee ROBINSON, Jackie ROCHELLI, Lou RUSSELL, Bill SAX, Steve

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) While GM Ned Colletti is said to have absorbed the abuse of what colleagues describe as McCourt's "hair trigger" managing style, sources indicate that McCourt has told friends he is sticking with his GM beyond this season whether or not the Dodgers overcome the first-place Arizona Diam...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) He's a total bust," said a National League scout. "What else can you say?" Aaron Rowand, picked up by the Giants this off-season for a staggering 5-year, $60M deal, got a B-. And so did tonight's starting pitcher, the Dodgers' Hiroki Kuroda (which I think is a little low):

By Tony Jackson This automatically makes his a nominee for the national award, which was last won by a Dodgers player in 1981 (Steve Garvey). This is a really big deal, because it speaks to a player who realizes the importance of giving... This automatically makes his a nominee for the national award, which wa...

By Christian Karcole First, it was his statement that the Phillies were the team to beat that year. Then it was his National League Most Valuable Player award. Those two things made him elite in a Phillies fan's mind. On Aug. 26, he hit his first home run since July 31. What should the Phillies do with Jimmy Rollins?

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By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Yahoo box • Angels recap Pounding The Padres: Dodgers 8, Padres 4 I caught the tail end of this peering into Harry Caray's Pub in Wrigleyville and noticing Joe Beimel was on the mound for the Dodgers. Presuming it was late in the game, I reckoned it was the seventh or so, but no, it was the ninth,...

By Administrator In 1957, the Braves’ Warren Spahn’s set a major league record for shutout thrown by lefty (41). In 1977, Japanese superstar Sadaharu Oh hit his 756th career homer to surpass Hank Aaron as the All-time career home run leader in professional baseball.

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) It has been no secret that Ned Colletti loves the San Francisco Giants as much as Frank McCourt loves the Red Sox. Colletti chased Jason Schmidt when other teams had concerns on his declining velocity; he has used every chance possible to get Ramon Martinez playing time in Dodger Blue; he ha...

By Jim McLennan Of course, Ramirez vs. Webb will be interesting - they've never faced each other before, but Mandy has completely destroyed Arizona pitching since coming to Los Angeles. In five games for the Dodgers against the Diamondbacks, he is batting .727. No: that's not a mis-print. He is 16-for-22 wit...

By Tony Jackson Below is a press release the Dodgers sent out last week about the quick success of the Dodgers Trolley, which beginning tomorrow night and through the weeklong homestand will feature certain former Dodgers riding the bus with fans. They're all...

By Brian Joseph The team delivered a much needed win on Saturday without Kent in the lineup over the first-place Diamondbacks and trail Arizona by 3-1/2 games in the National League West.  Kent is hitting .275 with 11 home runs and 57 RBI for the Dodgers in 2008.

By Azreous What aren't we going to talk about? Ramirez's two home runs, for one thing. Or the fact that Angel Berroa (.224) and Chad Billingsley (.093) were hit by pitches, and he was not. Or the Dodgers closing the gap back to 3.5 games and snapping their eight-game losing streak.

By Jim McLennan For six and a half innings, that has to count among the most nerve-wracking baseball games I've ever attended. I was positive that the Diamondbacks were going to find a way, somehow, to screw this up. There were two moments in particular, where I would have bet several, fairly-major interna...

By Jimmy Bramlett Washington Nationals defeat LA Dodgers 2-1. The only positive of the game for the Dodgers was Derek Lowe pitching a superb game going all eight innings giving up two runs on six hits with one walk. But the Dodgers lost to the worst team in baseball. The only run they scored was on a defensive gaff...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) On the plus side for the Dodgers, Manny got a double, his first extra-base hit since his August 17 home run in a game against Milwaukee. Big losers: Matt Kemp, Nomar, and Andre Ethier, all big WPA losers who failed to come through with runners on base.

By Jimmy Bramlett Phillies get the sweep. AP Photo/Tom Mihalek LA Dodgers at Washington Nationals. Derek Lowe (10-10, 3.89 ERA) gets the start for the Dodgers while the struggling Nationals send Collin Balester (2-6, 4.99 ERA) to the hill. 4:05 pm FSN Prime Ticket, AM 790 KABC.

But even those plays and before Brett Myers (7-10) had kept the Dodgers from scoring during his seven innings despite allowing nine hits and three walks, hitting coach Don Mattingly also noticed a lack of energy from the previous days.

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The battle here really centers on Jonathan Broxton and his atrocious blown save, and whether or not he's cut out to be the team's closer. Those defending Broxton have declared his four-pitch walk to AAA hitter Andy Tracy immaterial, walked away from his seven blown saves because five of th...

By Jim McLennan As a prediction, I expect the Phillies to complete the sweep tonight over a demoralized Dodgers. LA and AZ will then have similar results in their next series - both winning two against or possibly sweeping their opponents. Then comes the key series at Chase. I'd settle for us taking two of thr...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Diamondbacks The Snakes will play the Dodgers six more times this season, with the final three-game set going down in L.A. Overall, give 'Zona the edge in schedule. The Dodgers play inferior opponents, but the home-road splits favor Arizona by a mile. Dodgers

By Jimmy Bramlett Colorado Rockies at LA Dodgers. Jorge de la Rosa gets the start for the Rockies against Derek Lowe. 12:10 pm FSN Prime Ticket, AM 790 KABC. Minnesota Twins at LA Angels. The Angels come back home and face Scott Baker while they send John Lackey to the mound. 7:05 pm FSN West, AM 830 KLAA. AP Photo by

By J.C. Ayvazi A Dodger bullpen still in limbo without their closer, Takashi Saito.  Ahh, not all that much to get excited about after all, is it? So I hereby nominate Greg Maddux for Los Angeles Dodgers pitching coach 2009.  If we have to give him a playing contract to take the position, well, that’s OK too.

By noreply@blogger.com (Orel) Standing on the field at Dodger Stadium for the National Anthem meet Vin Scully, Charlie Steiner, Rick Monday, Jaime Jarrin, Fernando and any other broadcasters at that game. Hey, the auction item to meet Vin is at $3,000 and you'll get to do that as part of winning my auction.

By Travis Nelson The San Diego Padres have reportedly traded RHP Greg Maddux to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The deal is unofficial right now, and no terms have been announced, though it's expected that the Padres will receive one or two mid-level prospects (i.e. not much).

By Tony Jackson Fans are now able to bid online at www.dodgers.com on auction items such as a pregame visit in the booth with Dodger Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, a VIP trip to the Dodgers' new Spring Training facilities in Glendale, Arizona, an autographed guitar by Melissa Etheridge, and signed je...

By gozer The last 2 weeks in Major League Baseball have been extremely busy. As the trade deadline passed, many deals were made that are going to impact the outcome of playoff races from the American League East, to the National League West. Cincinnati Reds trade OF Adam Dunn to the Arizona Diamondba...

By Scott Malone With teams like the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and the Los Angeles Dodgers all going through a youth movement of some sort, each will be well equipped for the future years. The Dodgers have also gotten key offensive contributions fro...

By Jim McLennan Initially, it looked like this one was going to be a slugfest. After the Dodgers scored twice in the first, we came back to tie the game on RBI singles by Davis [yep, we were surprised by that too!] and Drew. But Los Angeles scored three more in the bottom of the second, chasing Davis, and Johnson...

By Brian Joseph Manny Ramirez, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (8/1-8/3) Mark Teixeira, Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees (7/31-8/3) Ken Griffey Jr., Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals (8/1-8/3) Randy Wolf, Houston Astros vs. New York Mets (Sunday, 8/3)

By Tony Jackson A lot will be said and written about tonight's eighth inning. Like whether plate umpire Angel Hernandez made the right call (he did, according to Andre Ethier, who was tagged out). Like whether Andre Ethier made a good or bad slide into the plate. (``You have to pick one side or the other,'' Joe...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) The Los Angeles Times on Saturday reported that the Dodgers are shopping LaRoche for relief pitching or middle infield help. That's as good a buy-low opportunity as you'll find, and teams with shortstop options or middle relievers to spare should be calling the Dodgers as we speak.

Thursday, November 29, 2007 Writer recalls Brooklyn Bums’ last season Scranton Times-Tribune June 10, 2007 by Cecilia Baress John R. Nordell, Old Forge, relives memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ final year in “Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957.” The book chronicles...

Thursday, November 29, 2007 Remembering Brooklyn's beloved 'Bums' The Weekender June 20, 2007 by Alison Myers After first considering the idea of writing a book about his favorite baseball team in 1997, and beginning research in 2005, historian John Nordell’s book about the Brooklyn...

Thursday, June 12, 2008 Buying a gift for the Dodgers-fan dad The Register Citizen June 6, 2008 by Viktoria Sundqvist If you have a dad or father-in-law you need to get a Father’s Day gift for, I suggest you check out some rare finds in the sports-related section at your local bookstore. Penn...

By Jimmy Bramlett Cleveland Indians defeat LA Angels 5-2>. Coming off of a sweep of the Boston Red Sox, the Angels just couldn't get anything going against Paul Byrd and the Indians. While they had good at bats, Byrd teased the Angels by throwing around the plate. Angel's starter Ervin Santana however wasn...

By Jim McLennan A very disappointing series: we had chances to win all three games, and certainly should have taken at least a couple of them. Oddly, the one we did is where we scored least runs, and we lost both the contests where we scored five or more - totally the reverse of the standard pattern this season....

By Peter Bendix vs Washington (14th) vs Washington (14th) vs Los Angeles Dodgers (11th) vs San Francisco (8th) vs Cincinnati (6th) at Colorado (2nd) at Philadelphia (3rd) vs Philadelphia (4th) at New York Yankees (6th in American League) at Los Angeles Angels (12th in American League)

By noreply@blogger.com (Rob) In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a piece about recent rumors linking shortstop Jack Wilson to the Dodgers: Los Angeles initiated the inquiry about Wilson last week and was the first team to do so this year. Those talks, which never involved any player on the Dodgers' major league roster, n...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) This wouldn't be the first time in recent memory that a Dodger general manager has given the field manager a toy with a fatal edge; see also, Mike Edwards, Jason Phillips at first base, and the reanimated corpse of Jason Grabowski under the Jim Tracy regime, and that was with a far smarter ma...

By noreply@blogger.com (Eric Karros) Down: Kershaw is pulled in the bottom of the 4th after allowing an RBI fielder's choice to Reyes. In keeping with the evening's Chips theme, the Dodgers bring in CHP. End of 3rd: Dodgers 4, Mets 4. Up: Turns out CHP = Can't Hit Park. He retires 8 of the first 9 guys he faces. Unfortunately, over that s...

By Steve Sax Rich: I like Colorado, followed by Los Angeles, San Diego, Arizona, and San Francisco. The Diamondbacks will be closer to first place than last although that says as much about the Giants as anything else. Russ: Same as 2007: 1. Arizona 2. Colorado 3. San Diego 4. Los Angeles 5. San Francisco

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By ToyCannon Los Angeles Dodger Career Win Shares Shortstop PlayerPosCareer Win SharesWills, MaurySS214Russel, BillSS/OF175Grudzielanek, MarkSS/2nd62Offerman, JoseSS47Furcal, RafaelSS42Anderson, DaveSS/3rd39Izturis, CasearSS32Gagne, GregSS30

By Andrew That did not take long at all. Friday: Dodgers sign Shea Hillenbrand to a minor league contract. Monday: Dodgers call up Shea Hillenbrand and send down Delwyn Young. Tuesday: The Dodgers start Shea Hillenbrand. As I said before, if it was late in the season and the Dodgers needed a home run to wi...