I watched the Dodgers’ National League Championship Series game with the Cubs that ended early this morning, and I was struck by two things I saw in the crowd. –Even this late in the season (but not at all that late on a Los Angeles night), Dodgers fans are going to leave early in an […]

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Most Los Angeles Dodgers fans were well aware that the man typically referred to as the greatest pitcher in the game — Clayton Kershaw — had not been able to translate his regular-season successes. Those led to three Cy Young awards (2011, 2013, 2014), given to the man considered the best pitcher in his league. […]

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I assumed I would be asleep when the Dodgers and Washington Nationals completed Game 5 — as well as their National Division Series. The game began at 8:08 p.m. (EDT), and three-plus hours had elapsed by the time I woke in France, at about 5:15 a.m. (Friday morning). As I was booting up the laptop […]

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The Dodgers’ victory in Game 4 was semi-clutch. Can’t really call it a clutch performance, because they blew that three-run lead in the seventh inning. (They won on a hit batter, a pinch single and Chase Utley’s ground ball that was a foot out of reach for the second baseman.) And semi-clutch is not enough […]

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The TV package I have here in southern France gives me a lot of sports stuff, but Major League Baseball is not part of the menu. Team handball nearly 24/7. Lots of tennis. Every English Premier League match, every Champions League match. (I actually watch some of those.) No baseball. This is France, after all, […]

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It was only yesterday — October of 1988 — that the Dodgers won the World Series. They beat the Oakland Athletics in five games, behind Kirk Gibson (a Game 1 homer you may have heard about) and right-hander Orel Hershiser, who was pretty much unhittable in winning twice. That was the sixth Major League Baseball […]

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Final day of Vin Scully anecdotes. A few years back, a former colleague — and Dodgers writer — brought a batch of his wife’s molasses cookies to the ballpark and presented them to Vin. Just a way to say “thinking of you” to Vin, apparently. Maybe the best part of it, for my friend, was […]

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I was going to note other interactions in the press box with Vin Scully — a recent meme seems to be about reporters and bumping into Vin in the washroom and making small talk, and I’ve done that. Instead, I’m going to offer him an anecdote pertaining to an event to which he is deeply […]

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A couple of decades ago, maybe a month after having published a comment piece on Vin Scully (spoiler alert: I liked him), I was going through the letters to the sports editor at the San Bernardino Sun. It didn’t take long, I’m sure. We never got many letters … and that was back when some […]

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I was looking at the Dodgers media release tonight, pertaining to the upcoming Vin Scully weekend at Dodger Stadium. And for a moment I was thinking, “What is there left to say or do? Are we pushing this too far? Are the Dodgers taking it too far? Are we going to ruin the health of […]

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