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J.P. Hoornstra

9 years

I wrote a book, the 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All Time, that published today. I'm excited to hear from angry fans: http://t.co/gRt7XaSDAt

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Joe West. Gene Simmons. BTS. Has there been a more powerful convergence of music superstars in one building ... ever?

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Mic drop. @bts_bighit is in the building!

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Shohei Ohtani's choice is in. This is not a drill. 🔗:

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Mookie Betts: "I know, for me, I was already tight with everyone in the clubhouse ... but now that everyone has my back more than I already thought, means a lot. I’ll always remember this day and I’ll always remember this team having my back. This organization has been amazing."

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After the Dodgers won the World Series, most of the questions for Andrew Friedman focused on how Justin Turner wound up on the field tonight after two positive COVID-19 tests after the game and, most importantly, stayed there after the team photo. This story won't be going away.

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Clayton Kershaw has never appeared in a World Series game with more than a four-run lead until today.

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5 years

ESPN has selected the Giants-Dodgers game on Opening Day for a national broadcast.

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8 years

This is Yasiel Puig taping a Jose Fernandez #16 Dodgers jersey to the dugout wall:

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7 years

Brandon McCarthy chose Linkin Park for his entrance music tonight.

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Dave Roberts, pointing to Clayton Kershaw: "You want to talk about a narrative? How about being a champion? He's a champion forever."

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Keibert Ruiz was scratched from the Oklahoma City Dodgers’ original lineup tonight. That’s all I know.

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3 years

Analysis: Max Scherzer and Danny Duffy are not the players you sell the farm for if you expect Trevor Bauer to pitch for your team in 2021.

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6 years

He’s hit two so far. This is the second.

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10 months

Surprise, surprise.

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10 months

An apology. This is not a drill:

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4 years

Great news for Dodgers minor leaguer Connor Joe, who announced he was fighting testicular cancer in March.

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Cancer free!! Fantastic News!! #COJOStrong

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Clayton Kershaw: “I’d much rather fail on the biggest stages than not get to be here at all.”

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4 years

Dave Roberts just thanked Ross Stripling and Rick Honeycutt before handing off the microphone.

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Clayton Kershaw on Mookie Betts: "He’s, like, the best right fielder I’ve ever seen. ... There’s a reason Andrew gave him 12 years."

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Dodger Stadium announced attendance: Pride Night (Friday, June 16 vs. Giants): 49,074 Law Enforcement Appreciation Night (Monday, Aug. 28 vs. Dbacks): 36,521

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4 years

Q: "Do you like scoring runs more, or driving them in?" Mookie Betts: "I like winning."

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5 years

Spent the last 12 hours in ER with my dad. Long story short, he’s expected to pull through. Thoughts and prayers are welcome and appreciated. Also, congrats to Kenta Maeda on his $1 million assignment bonus.

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4 years

The Opening Day game between the Dodgers and Rockies will begin at 7:10 pm PT, ESPN announces.

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The FBI compiled a 313-page dossier on the mother of Dodgers coach George Lombard. Before she died, she dodged the KKK. Now she's inspiring her son to speak up:

Dodgers coach George Lombard tries to honor the work of his activist mother

A civil rights volunteer in the deep south, Posy Lombard inspired her son to find his voice

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4 years

Clayton Kershaw: “I know that I��m going to pitch again this series."

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2 years

I'm hearing #Dodgers prospect Miguel Vargas is on his way to San Francisco to join the taxi squad.

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2 years

The Dodgers have a special presentation planned for Albert Pujols when the Cardinals come to town tomorrow.

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4 years

Turner is now the all-time Dodgers postseason hit leader with 64, passing Steve Garvey.

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6 months

Kiké Hernández will be mic’d up for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast tonight. Happy Easter.

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5 years

Cody Bellinger is on pace for 324 RBIs this season.

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Clayton Kershaw: "Hopefully tomorrow we win a normal game somehow. Like 6 to 2, that would be great."

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2 years

The Astros are being introduced on the field for the first time in 2022. Angel Stadium is booing, loudly.

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ESPN says last night’s Dodgers-Angels game generated a 5.7 rating in the Los Angeles market, according to Nielsen. This is the highest-rated regular season MLB game on ESPN on record (records date to 1999).

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5 years

Austin Barnes has been optioned to Oklahoma City. #Dodgers

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Shohei Ohtani is reading his statement in Japanese. Will Ireton, sitting by his side, is now interpreting. "I'm very grateful that the media has been patient in this process." Ohtani says he's "sad and shocked that someone I trusted has done this."

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4 years

The Dodgers added prospect Jacob Amaya to their group of non-roster invitees to spring training.

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6 years

Kids, always bring your glove.

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Mike Scioscia was asked about the Angels fans who threw trash cans on the field: "I think they’re voicing their opinion as we all have a right to do."

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4 years

SportsNet LA announces that it will broadcast all 29 #Dodgers spring training games, beginning Sunday. It will also carry more than 150 regular season games, including Opening Day (1 p.m. April 1 vs. Colorado).

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5 years

There are nine members of @NCTsmtown_127 here at Dodger Stadium. Four of them just threw ceremonial first pitches. None of them came anywhere close to their targets – they made Nick Young look good – and I’m wondering how much worse the other five can possibly be.

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In case you wondered how the Dodgers managed to win 2 out of every 3 games, dominate run differential, and still drive their fans nuts for six months, the first three games of this series offered a great primer.

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6 years

Mike Trout said he can hit a golf ball "close to 400." He did not specify yards, furlongs, miles, etc. Use your imagination.

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10 months

I asked Nez Balelo directly about the surgery Shohei Ohtani had. He said it has no name - that’s how uncommon it is - and his progress so far is ahead of the typical Tommy John surgery timetable for recovery.

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Yasiel Puig (via interpreter): “(Hundley) told me to stop complaining and step back in the box ... he just kept coming after me and kept complaining. I wasn’t going to let them disrespect our house.”

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“I Love LA” blasting at a Padres home game. First time for everything.

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"This was a fun night for me" - Clayton Kershaw

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Per a source, Shohei Ohtani's camp invited Yoshinobu Yamamoto to attend the Rams game tonight at SoFi. That's how both players wound up on the "celebrity guest list" for the game. But Yamamoto can't make it. An effort was made.

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4 years

The Dodgers have used 10 pitchers in this series. The Padres have used 10 pitchers in this game.

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Dave Roberts: "This is not a political issue. I understand there’s an election coming up, but this is a human issue. .... A black man being shot seven times in the back, it can’t happen.”

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2 years

I’m afraid for my life

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The Dodgers have released this year‘s media guide. This is the cover.

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#Dodgers Walker Buehler, Clayton Kershaw and Bobby Miller all threw off a mound today, Dave Roberts said.

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6 years

Chase Utley will hold a press conference today, the Dodgers announce. He never does that.

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4 years

FACT CHECK: Yes, Vin Scully used to say "deuces wild," but not on an 0-and-2 count. He saved the phrase for the occasion of 2-and-2 counts, typically with 2 outs in the inning.

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Clayton Kershaw now has 207 career postseason strikeouts, a record.

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4 years

The Astros’ feel-good story might be coming to an end.

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"I feel like I'm a true Dodger now," Kenley Jansen said.

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6 years

Today, Clayton Kershaw is exactly as old as Sandy Koufax was when he pitched his final game: 30 years, 9 months and 7 days. Merry Christmas.

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The Dodgers will introduce Shohei Ohtani at 3 pm Thursday at a press conference at Dodger Stadium.

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1 year

You probably knew that the number of Dodgers players on paternity leave this month has been especially high. Friends, you don’t know the half of it.

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4 years

The Dodgers finished the season with the most runs scored (349), the most home runs (118), the highest slugging percentage (.483) and the fourth-fewest strikeouts as a team in MLB. Mercy.

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Clayton Kershaw: "I have no intentions of hanging ‘em up. I’m only 32. I feel like I have a few years left in the tank."

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During batting practice, Clayton Kershaw hit a fly ball headed for the right-field bleachers. A.J. Ellis caught it on the warning track. “Over?” Kershaw asked. Ellis threw the baseball into the stands. “We have a budget,” Kershaw yelled.

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Dave Roberts said he loves Corey Knebel's head.

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Dino Ebel is the best. "I do this every day," he said. "My job is to get lit up in batting practice."

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A documentary of the 2020 World Series will be released for download, or Blu-ray/DVD, on Dec. 8. It will be narrated by Vin Scully.

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Jason Alexander is in attendance tonight. He was shown on the Dodger Stadium video boards just now, identified as "George Costanza, Yankees assistant to the traveling secretary."

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Mookie Betts believes the best way he can support Cody Bellinger is by listening and being a sounding board: “He doesn’t need more coaches. I’m sure everyone in the world is trying to help him hit.”

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The Dodgers put together a pregame video tribute to Alanna Rizzo, their longtime reporter for @SportsNetLA who is here tonight on assignment with @MLBNetwork .

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#LeadByExample

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I can't tell you if Max Scherzer is having a good time right now, but I can tell you that he is standing shirtless on the field, with goggles still strapped to his head, giving an interview on camera.

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Odell Beckham Jr. is wearing a Tampa Bay Devil Rays jersey and taking BP in Anaheim. He just hit a home run.

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I’m told that Kenley Jansen is A-OK after a successful heart procedure today.

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2 years

Presented without comment.

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@MLB The difference between the Pirates and a Little League team is that, in Little League, the first baseman’s mom would have been yelling “step on first base!” and he would have been able to hear her and the inning would have ended uneventfully.

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Gavin Lux will join the Dodgers “in some capacity” and is a candidate to be on their postseason roster, Dave Roberts said.

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Trevor Bauer: "I’m trying to be better in all walks of life. I’m committed to being better on social media, better in the clubhouse, better on the field, better in life in general."

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I'm told Dodger players are having a team meeting in San Francisco. Stay tuned.

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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (well, two of them anyway) are on the field receiving their community service award. The fans are almost unanimously applauding. Their moment on camera in the stadium was over in less than 30 seconds.

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The Dodgers did not reach agreement on a 2021 salary with Walker Buehler or Austin Barnes before today’s deadline.

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Eight Mexican-born pitchers have appeared in a World Series game: Julio Urías Fernando Salas Enrique Romo Horacio Piña Aurelio Lopez Jaime Garcia Fernando Valenzuela Alfredo Aceves

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The Dodgers (41-17) are assured of finishing 2020 with the best regular season record in franchise history and the best record in baseball.

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Dave Roberts said he believes there is magic in Albert Pujols.

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“I would love an opportunity to come back,” soon-to-be free agent Brandon Morrow said.

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The Dodgers added West Covina's Jacob Amaya to their 60-man player pool. We spoke last month about life outside the pool:

Hoornstra: Minor league baseball players face an awkward present, uncertain future

With no games now, and likely fewer teams in the future, players try to stay focused on the moment.

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Mike Trout said he didn't realize his first step was slow until he read it on Twitter. Since then he's been making a concerted effort to get better. @mike_petriello

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Dave Roberts said he learned Justin Turner would be doing an in-game interview with ESPN about an hour before yesterday’s game. “I’m not a fan of it,” Roberts said. He said that would be the last in-game interview with a Dodger player on the field.

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Andrew Friedman said Russell Martin was excited to be coming back to L.A. "He wants to win a championship. That's what he talked about multiple times, and said I'll do anything you guys want. I'll play the infield, I'll play the outfield ... even pitch."

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Mike Trout said he is a "big fan" of Fernando Tatís Jr.

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Shohei Ohtani just become only the second Angels pitcher to throw 100 innings in a season since 2018.

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Dave Roberts' voice is cracking as he praises his players during his postgame interview on Fox.

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Matt Kemp is in the Dodgers’ dugout. He is wearing a Jackie Robinson uniform.

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According to Yasiel Puig, Dave Roberts told Yu Darvish "don't worry, you're not going to lose," after Roberts removed Darvish. #confident

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I think UCLA just fired Clay Helton.

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The Dodgers tendered all their arb-eligible players.

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Zach McKinstry said his parents were in attendance tonight. It just happened to be the first game of 2021 they could attend. Good timing.

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Tension is not knowing whether your father, placed on life support two weeks before the due date, will be around to see his first grandchild. This little guy reported healthy this morning. He must be a pitcher or a catcher.

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Teams are 23-0 this postseason while outscoring their opponent by any means available.

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Julio Urías began a formal rehab assignment today in the Arizona League. I’m told he touched 94 mph on the radar gun.

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