Los Angeles Dodgers
Can Juan Soto Lead the Padres Past the Dodgers?
SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto had barely landed, Josh Bell had just sat down and Josh Hader was starting to learn his new teammates’ names when Peter Seidler, the Padres’ owner, declared that “the art of the possible is here.” But just as quickly as the Padres had reset all expectations for their season — […]
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Vin Scully Was Los Angeles
He was Venice Beach, Pink’s hot-dog stand and the Hollywood Bowl all rolled into one. He was Los Angeles, the sound of summer, the poet laureate of the Dodgers — Brooklyn and Los Angeles — for 67 seasons. We knew Vin Scully wasn’t going to last forever. It only seemed as if he might. Even […]
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Giancarlo Stanton of Yankees Wins All-Star MVP Award in Hometown
LOS ANGELES — The All-Star break came later than usual this summer, deep enough in the schedule to see October off in the distance. As the game’s top players scattered back to their home cities late Tuesday night, after the American League’s 3-2 victory over the National League, the majors’ best team could guess where […]
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Dodger Stadium Shadows Could Aid All-Star Pitchers
LOS ANGELES — The All-Star Game has visited 37 different ballparks, including some more than once, since its last edition at Dodger Stadium. Ten of those sites have been razed, and three others no longer host Major League Baseball games. Chavez Ravine still glows. That may be part of the problem, at least for hitters […]
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Dansby Swanson Has Atlanta Braves Surging in NL East
Against the Dodgers over the weekend, the Braves honored Freeman, who signed a six-year, $162 million deal with Los Angeles in the off-season after 12 years in Atlanta, and presented him with his World Series ring. He cried throughout a news conference before Friday’s game, during the ring ceremony and during a standing ovation before […]
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How the Dodgers Found Tony Gonsolin and Tyler Anderson
CINCINNATI — No team loses more high-impact starting pitchers than the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yet no team consistently pitches so well. It is part of life in blue. “I was at the Sandy Koufax statue ceremony last week, and he talked about how, when you put this uniform on, there’s a lot of pitching legacy […]
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Rays Players Undercut Pride Night by Not Wearing Rainbow Logos
Something was missing in the top of the eighth inning on Saturday at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Tampa Bay Rays used two relief pitchers that inning — the left-handers Brooks Raley and Jalen Beeks — who wore jerseys without a patch on their right sleeve. This was not a manufacturer’s error or […]
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With Jersey Retirement, Gil Hodges Connects the Dodgers and Mets Again
By 1980, Fred Wilpon would purchase the team, adding another layer of connective tissue: Wilpon attended Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School with Dodgers Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax and was a rabid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was under his watch that Citi Field opened in 2009 with so many Dodgers-related touches — most notably, […]
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At Pride Night, Dodgers Embrace Glenn Burke, Who They Once Shunned
“He could jump out of a stadium,” said Rick Monday, Burke’s former Dodgers teammate and now the club’s radio analyst. “With his vertical leap, he could have been one of Santa’s reindeer.” The 2022 M.L.B. Season “Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground […]
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