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Clayton Kershaw Couldn't Throw A Fastball But Still Looked Slippery In His Return
Clayton Kershaw pitched for the first time since May 1 tonight against the Phillies, and at a glance, he looked alright. After sitting on the DL for a month with a left bicep* injury, the Dodger ace went for five innings of work and got five strikeouts, with the only run scoring on a play where Maik...
Rich Hill Wants To Pitch With Tape On His Finger So He Doesn't Have To Pee On It
To scroll through photos of Rich Hill pitching is to see a man who appears to be in extreme pain while performing normal functions of his job. This could just be a Pitchface scenario—every pitcher’s got one, and while Hill looks anguished in the act of pitching, he’s not quite in R.A. Dickey territo...
Even The Reds Are Having More Fun Than The Dodgers
I could tell you that the defending NL champion Dodgers are having a bad start to the year by pointing at their 16-21 record, or their eight-game deficit in the division. But the much more evocative sign of their misfortunes is that the Cincinnati Reds—the goddang Reds—felt comfortable enough in Dod...
The Dodgers Are Preternaturally Fucked
Let’s do the good stuff first: The Dodgers notched an elusive combined no-hitter on Friday against a pretty wretched San Diego Padres team. Walker Buehler has one of the best baseball names I’ve ever heard, and has so far also excelled at throwing a baseball in three starts this season. Kenley Janse...
Truly The Combined No-Hitter Is the Connoisseur's No-Hitter
Walker Buehler pitched six no-hit innings for the Dodgers Friday night, against the Padres. It took him 93 pitches to get through six; the most he’s thrown in a game this season is 94; 93 pitches is more than twice as many as he threw in any game last season, when he made his MLB debut and eight tot...
Corey Seager Is Out For 2018, Adding To Team's Extremely Long List Of Present Woes
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager will miss the rest of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, the team announced today....
The Dodgers Are Struggling And Dave Roberts Made An Example Of Cody Bellinger
Already seven games back of the division-leading Diamondbacks with a 12-15 record, the Dodgers are off to a rough start this season. And although it’s still pretty early, some cracks are beginning to show. With the team down four in an eventual 4-2 loss to the Giants on Sunday, manager Dave Roberts ...
Pablo Sandoval Pitched A Perfect Inning, And It Was Just Fucking Perfect
Saturday’s slate of Major League games featured a number of hideous blowouts. The White Sox crushed the Royals by eight runs in Kansas City. The Rays scored 12 runs on 18 hits against the Red Sox. The Dodgers scored 15 runs and beat the Giants by nine. The Mariners beat the Indians by eight. The Ast...
Flood Of Shit Ends Spring Training For Dodgers
Dodger Stadium is full of shit. It was last night, at least....
Justin Turner Breaks Wrist On HBP
Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner will miss opening day, and likely at least the first month of the season, after suffering a broken wrist when being hit by a pitch in Monday night’s spring training game against the A’s....
The Dodgers Still Sound Pretty Annoyed With Shohei Ohtani
Before signing with the Angels, Japanese two-way star Shohei Ohtani narrowed his list to seven teams, and heard in-person presentations from each. Players from one of those teams, at least, say the whole thing was a farce and Ohtani shouldn’t have wasted their time....
Yasiel Puig's Agency Cuts Him Over Reported "Behavior" Issue
Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig is apparently without an agent after the Wasserman group announced today that they’d cut ties with him for what’s been reported as something “behavior-related.” Whatever it was, though, it doesn’t sound like it’s something that could affect his status or relationship ...
Dodgers Shift Money Around To Set Up Massive Future Splurge
The hot stove may have taken a while to preheat, but it is now, um, cooking! New York Post baseball guy Joel Sherman is reporting that the Dodgers have acquired Matt Kemp from the Atlanta Braves, in exchange for Adrián González, Scott Kazmir, Brandon McCarthy, Charlie Culberson, and cash. ...
Report: Yu Darvish Tipped His Pitches In The World Series
Remember how awful Dodgers starter Yu Darvish was in the World Series? He only made it through 10 outs in two starts. He allowed nine hits, eight earned runs, and two homers. He sucked big-time! Now, thanks to Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci, we know why....
Farhan Zaidi Is Sisyphus<em></em>
Here’s a little refresher on the myth of Sisyphus, for all those in need of one: King Sisyphus was greedy and a generally terrible guy, one whose terribleness peaked with a plot to murder his brother and seduce his niece. He finally met his downfall when he spilled one of Zeus’s secrets for his own ...
Old Retired White Man Has Opinion You'd Expect On National Anthem Demonstrations
Vin Scully was at the Pasadena Civic Center last night for “An Evening With Vin Scully,” and for some reason someone asked him for his thoughts on the NFL’s national anthem demonstrations. His response was unsurprising....
Clayton Kershaw's Quotes About Postseason Failure Are Killing Me
The narrative of Clayton Kershaw’s playoff failure was always something bigger and more intense than it had any logical right to be. It conveniently ignored key context of managerial decisions and bullpen strength, not to mention brushed aside the number of perfectly fine and even good postseason st...
The Dodgers Had Their Shots
There’s always a postmortem. Where did they go wrong? What should they have done differently? Analyzing a game—a baseball game, a World Series Game 7—is like dwelling on any other thing in the past: It’s in a fixed state. It happened, it’s not changing, and at some point you swallow it and move on....
The Astros Have Their First World Series Title
In a rather anticlimactic ending that wasn’t exactly befitting a pretty thrilling series, the Houston Astros claimed their first World Series title in franchise history with a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in tonight’s Game 7. ...
Dodgers Dead? Situation Rapidly Developing
Starting pitcher Yu Darvish lasted five outs and allowed five runs. Manager Dave Roberts turned to—who else—Brandon Morrow to replace him. The Dodgers entered the bottom of the second losing 5-0 to the Astros....