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Chase Burns makes history in electric Reds debut against Yankees
Last spring Chase Burns was lighting up radar guns at Wake Forest, as the big right-hander went 10-1 for the Demon Deacons while setting a new school record with 191 strikeouts. That propelled Burns to the top of the 2024 MLB Draft, where he was selected second overall by the Cincinnati Reds. Burns made his…
Letters: Dodgers must figure out their injured pitcher problem
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Dodgers now have 15 pitchers on the injured list. This team, with all of its talent, is going nowhere without frontline pitching. Andrew Friedman realized this when he emptied Fort Knox during the offseason. But, like previous seasons, they are dropping like flies, with shoulder and forearm issues. Other MLB teams don’t…
Missed chance to sweep Yankees leaves Dodgers in precarious spot
The desperation of a toasted Dodger Stadium made itself abundantly clear Sunday in the fourth inning of a sunburn against the New Yankees. With mighty Yankee Aaron Judge huffing and puffing at the plate, a lone insistent chant emerged from a Dodger fan lurking in the shadows. “Ko-be! Ko-be! Ko-be!” Sorry. Nice try. But on…
Yoshinobu Yamamoto runs into problems in Dodgers’ loss to Yankees
Dave Roberts downplayed the easy narrative on Sunday afternoon. “No,” he said when asked if his Dodgers had the New York Yankees’ proverbial number, having followed up their defeat of the Bronx Bombers in last year’s World Series with two impressive wins to start this weekend’s rematch at Dodger Stadium. “I think we’ve had their…
Dodgers finish with 18 runs and 21 hits in blowout win over Yankees
It was a statement, a reminder and a warning all wrapped into one. The Dodgers might not have been playing their best baseball entering this weekend’s World Series rematch against the New York Yankees. But in a ceaseless offensive onslaught in the opening two innings on Saturday, things seemed to suddenly, profoundly and perhaps permanently…
Shohei Ohtani homers twice in Dodgers’ comeback win over Yankees
It wasn’t quite as significant as the fifth inning of Game 5 last year. But, in the opening contest of a World Series rematch at Chavez Ravine on Friday night, the Dodgers mounted another stunning late-game rally against the New York Yankees. And this time, they didn’t even need an assist from the Yankees’ porous…
Yankees eager to avenge World Series meltdown against Dodgers
For Dodgers fans, the must-have souvenir from last year’s World Series was not a cap or T-shirt commemorating the team’s championship. It was one of the stickers that popped up all over town, reproducing the Fox Sports score box that showed the New York Yankees leading, 5-0, with two out in the fifth inning. For…
Angels offense remains quiet in shutout loss to Yankees
The hope was that the Angels could use Tuesday’s ninth-inning rally to muster up something worth talking about at the plate. On Tuesday, Yoán Moncada homered. Taylor Ward singled. Luis Rengifo brought home a run with a line drive up the middle. Despite falling a run short, stringing a few hits together showed that the…
Max Fried has settled in quickly with the Yankees
Last weekend when the AL East-leading New York Yankees (then 30-19) visited Coors Field to play the historically bad Colorado Rockies (then 8-42), a sweep seemed inevitable. Reality hit on Friday night when RHP Tanner Gordon led the Rockies to a surprising 3-2 win. The next day, however, Max Fried would set things right as…
Jack Kochanowicz shows potential in Angels’ loss to Yankees
Jack Kochanowicz mowed through his first three innings against the Yankees on Monday night. The 6-foot-7 sinkerballer was doing all of what manager Ron Washington asked of him before the game: pitch to contact and let his defense do the work. “Just be Jack,” Washington said. “Throw his sinker, change, eye-level, put the ball in…