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Jose Fernandez Was Delighted By This Kenta Maeda Pitch That Fooled Him

Kenta Maeda has spent his first season on this side of the Pacific confounding hitters and even socking the odd dinger. Tonight, he did it again, hoodwinking Jose Fernandez into chasing this pitch way up in the zone. Fernandez was so charmed by Maeda’s pitch that he couldn’t keep from laughing all t...

Giancarlo Stanton Dinger Sends Clayton Kershaw To His Knees 

Clayton Kershaw made Giancarlo Stanton swing and miss with a nasty little curve in the fourth inning to get his seventh strikeout of the evening. Two innings later, Stanton faced Kershaw again and smacked a fastball to the moon so hard that the Dodgers ace fell to his knees on the mound....

Rookie Kenta Maeda, Japan's Curse Upon MLB Hitters, Is The Damn Truth

The Dodgers rolled into Denver and beat the Rockies on Saturday 4-1, which itself is fairly humdrum. More impressive was how L.A.’s winning rookie pitcher, Kenta Maeda, a 28-year-old right-hander who spent seven outstanding years as a pro in Japan, took a no-hitter into the sixth. He then gave up th...

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Clayton Kershaw Throws Weird Pitch

Does this Clayton Kershaw pitch from today’s game even count as an eephus? It seems more like the Dodgers pitcher forgot that Tyler Flowers was already at the plate, or maybe Kershaw didn’t set himself properly on the mound and had to follow through so he didn’t hurt anything. Whatever the reason, t...

Vin Scully Patiently Explains Why 13 Isn't An Unlucky Number

It’s storytime with Vin Scully, who is calling his 67th and final Dodgers season. His train of thought directed by an RBI single by Arizona’s Nick Ahmed, who wears uniform No. 13, Scully launched into a recitation of just how much the number 13 means to this great nation—with brief interrupts to cal...

Yasiel Puig's Got Moves On The Basepath

The Dodgers opened up Dodger Stadium for the season with a 4-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks and their weird new road uniforms (Rob Lowe is not a fan). L.A. had a slim lead for most of the game but Arizona came back at the end and scored all their runs after Kenta Maeda sat down. Yasiel Puig did,...

Madison Bumgarner Remains Unimpressed By Clayton Kershaw

It’s been clear for a while that the San Francisco Giants have something on their hands with Madison Bumgarner. The promising native of Hickory, N.C. hit for a .470 slugging percentage in limited action two years ago at age 24, and followed on with a .468 mark last season, the highlight of the year ...

Yasiel Puig Hit This Season's First Little League Inside-The-Park Home Run

I feel bad for the Padres fans who went to watch their team host the Dodgers yesterday, only to watch horrified as their Southern California rivals whipped the everliving shit out of their team in front of masses of visiting fans. It was an altogether embarrassing 15-0 drubbing, in which Clayton Ker...

Clayton Kershaw Posed For Pictures With The People Who Rear-Ended Him

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw seems like a nice guy. I say that because if I were a famous baseball player, I don’t think I’d be in the mood to snap some pics with two fans right after they slammed into the back of my car....

Report: Chase Utley Won't Be Suspended For Breaking Ruben Tejada's Leg After All

Chase Utley lit into New York’s Ruben Tejada something serious in last year’s NLDS, breaking the shortstop’s leg and igniting a whole debate about whether or not MLB can or even should suspend players who go too far trying to break up double plays. They initially suspended him from Games 3 and 4 of ...

Dodgers Pitcher Josh Ravin Breaks Arm, Shares Very Gross Picture

Dodgers pitcher Josh Ravin will have surgery to repair a broken arm he suffered in a car accident on Monday night. Would you like to see a picture of the arm that will possibly make you very queasy? On we go, then:...

Why Prosecutors Didn't Bring Charges Against Aroldis Chapman 

Prosecutors have declined to bring charges against now-Yankees pitcher Aroldis Chapman for his actions the night he was accused of choking his girlfriend and firing eight gunshots inside his garage, the Broward State Attorney’s Office announced today. The office also released a closeout memo, writte...

This Is Not The Yasiel Puig Bar Fight Video [Update]

Update (2:00 p.m.): TMZ has retracted their report. The man in the above video is not Puig. TMZ said: ...

Giants Sign Johnny Cueto, Make The NL West More Interesting

The San Francisco Giants have reached a six-year, $130 million deal with Johnny Cueto, according to ESPN’s Buster Olney....

So How Did Zack Greinke End Up On The Diamondbacks?

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a remarkable experiment in what happens when you take the financial brakes off a team and see how far you can fly with pure spending. On the field, their ethos is pretty simple: get men on base and hit homers on offense, then strike people out when they have the ball. Las...

Report: MLB Investigating Yasiel Puig Under New Domestic Violence Policy

Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig will face an MLB investigation under the league’s new domestic violence policy after his alleged involvement in a Miami brawl earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times is reporting....

Andy Van Slyke Hints That Clayton Kershaw Wants Yasiel Puig Off The Dodgers

Andy Van Slyke, a former MLB player turned coach who is also the father of Dodgers outfielder Scott Van Slyke, had some juicy gossip from Chavez Ravine that he kept to himself by sharing it on a St. Louis radio show. According to Van Slyke, someone [Clayton Kershaw], and Van Slyke isn’t the type to ...

The Pitcher Who Couldn't Lose

Bronson Arroyo was in some small town near Los Angeles, the name of which he doesn’t remember, and he was thinking about getting old. He and a friend had stopped at a diner to get a bite to eat, and he couldn’t help but notice all of the old men seated around them. He recalls this moment a few weeks...

Don Mattingly And The Dodgers Have Reportedly Parted Ways

CBS Sports’ Jon Heyman is reporting that the Los Angeles Dodgers and manager Don Mattingly have come to a mutual agreement to part ways....