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Jon Weisman's outletfor dealing psychologicallywith the Los Angeles Dodgersand baseball.

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I've told thousands of baseball stories, and I've got a lot more to share with you. Please join me all year to talk some baseball here on my official MLBlog.

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It's about to be Dodger Stadium's turn at Big League Stew's Big Ballpark Review at Yahoo! Sports, and blogger Kevin Kaduk wants your input: - [Read more]

The Dodgers won today for the 11th time in their past 17 games, moving within a half-game of first place if Arizona doesn't stage a second ninth-inning miracle in a row, thanks to contributions from players that have been boosted in these parts for a long time now. They also won today thanks to contributions from Nomar Garciaparra, who has been maligned. - [Read more]

As I write this, Matt Holliday has just hit a grand slam in Colorado to cut Florida's lead to 17-16 with none out in the bottom of the seventh inning. - [Read more]

Before today's game at San Francisco, two players will indeed be emancipated, at least temporarily, to make room for Andruw Jones and Nomar Garciaparra - assuming the latter can get past the gettin'-out-of-bed hurdle. (Don't laugh - I wake up backsore all too often.) - [Read more]

April 1-April 16: 15 games, 131 innings, 102 strikeouts, .656 OPS allowed, 3.23 ERA April 18-May 19: 29 games, 258 innings, 197 strikeouts, .758 OPS allowed, 4.64 ERA May 20-July 3: 41 games, 364 1/3 innings, 322 strikeouts, .669 OPS allowed (through Wednesday), 3.16 ERA - [Read more]

More to come ... - [Read more]

Tony Jackson of the Daily News has a great quote from Dodger assistant general manager Kim Ng on the accelerated return of Andruw Jones and Nomar Garciaparra on Friday. - [Read more]

My dad had severe back problems a few years back that made surgery seem inevitable. He worked his way through without having it, but then again, he wasn't trying to play shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers. - [Read more]

Clayton Kershaw is headed back to Jacksonville today to make room for the activation of Hiroki Kuroda from the disabled list. The move makes sense if for no other reason than Kershaw was not needed to pitch until after the All-Star break, especially if Brad Penny comes off the disabled list this weekend. - [Read more]

I cannot believe that the newspaper that I have read ever since I learned to read, a newspaper that I worshipped and cherished, that provided one of the great thrills of my life when it first published one of my articles, that I defended against the readers of the New York Times (there can be more than one great newspaper in America), I can't believe it is simply dissolving like the Wicked Witch. - [Read more]

Keith Thursby of the Daily Mirror blog at the Times notes that the close Proposition B vote in 1958 in favor of handing Chavez Ravine over to the Dodgers was made even closer by the fact that six Los Angeles City Council districts, including all four in the San Fernando Valley (where I was grew up), voted against the measure. - [Read more]

Manager Mike Brumley of the Dodgers' affiliate in Ogden, which got in a bench-clearing brawl with Idaho Falls on Monday, said animosity between the two teams had been building for days and has yet to dissipate, according to Trent Toone of the Ogden Standard-Examiner. - [Read more]

Use your changeup, Clayton. - [Read more]

On Saturday, Idaho Falls hit two batters on the Dodgers' Ogden minor league team. On Sunday, Idaho Falls hit two more. - [Read more]

Hey guys, Aaron and I are really sorry we’ve been MIA lately. We’re traveling the world right now, but we’ll be back for a hopeful playoff chase (the division is so bad I don’t think a chase is unrealistic). We miss you and just want you to know that even on the other side of [...] - [Read more]

Not everything has gone right for the Tampa Bay Undeviled Rays this season. The OPS+ of first baseman Carlos Pena has tumbled from 172 in 2007 to 105 so far this season. Except for a 16-of-19 run on stolen bases, they're getting little from shortstop Jason Bartlett (59 OPS+, .238 EQA). Carl Crawford and B.J. Upton are not matching their 2007 numbers. Their best pitcher, Scott Kazmir, missed more than a month of the season, and Rocco Baldelli has been completely sidelined. - [Read more]

The following is presented merely as an FYI. I'm looking at the outs chart from Eric Stults' last start, which was noteworthy because he was charged with 17 outs via the air. Here's what I see: - [Read more]

Diamond Leung of the Press-Enterprise passed along the update. - [Read more]

Without a no-hitter since Hideo Nomo's at Colorado on September 17, 1996 - 11 years and 9 1/2 months ago - the Dodgers are in their longest no-hit drought since they went 11 years and 11 1/2 months between no-hitters by Dazzy Vance (September 13, 1925) and Fred Frankhouse (August 27, 1937). - [Read more]

Since Wednesday: Opponents ... 000 000 000 011 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 - 2 Dodgers ..... 200 300 00x 000 000 000 100 020 30x 000 010 00x - 12 - [Read more]