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The Cubs will start tonight's game against the Brewers needing to score only 8 more runs to become the first team to reach 100,000 since the start of the National League in 1876. Their 99,992 are 1...

MLB Trade Rumors Max Muncy on paternity leave and recalling right-hander Brusdar Graterol to take his roster spot, per Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times (via Twitter). Muncy shouldn’t be away for overlong, which is a good thing given the monster season he’s having thus far. The All-Star has posted 4.7 rWAR with a triple slash line of .273/.413/.565 over 351 plate appearances. He continues to be, if not the most recognizable Dodger star, one of their most efficient performers. As for...

NL favored as public anticipates high-scoring All-Star Game Field Level Media 14 Jul 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 The National League is the consensus favorite in what the public anticipates to be a high-scoring All-Star Game at Coors Field in Denver on Tuesday night. Washington Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer will start for the N.L., which is being backed by 61 percent of the bets and 57 percent of thehandle as a 1.5-run favorite at DraftKings. Meanwhile, the American League will send Los Angeles An...

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images It’s been a busy week for Dodgers roster moves. The latest is left-hander Victor Gonzalez getting placed on the 10-day injured list with plantar fasciitis in his left foot. Fellow southpaw Garrett Cleavinger was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City, one day after he was optioned. Gonzalez leads the Dodgers with 36 appearances in the team’s 85 games. That’s not appreciably high, tied for 36th in the majors. But Gonzalez has used heavily of late, pitchin...

Matt wasn’t about to let this happen to him! by 07/04/2021, 7:00 PM Dodgers fans are all too familiar with odd base-running blunders on home runs this year. It seems like that trend is following the team all year long. It started on Opening Day in Colorado when Cody Bellinger was called out after hitting a home run and running past his teammate.  More recently, the Dodgers caught a big break when Pirates’ third baseman Ke’bryan Hayes missed first base. Hayes was called out after review...

With the tension building and the minutes ticking by, Chris Taylor fouled off pitch after pitch from Genesis Cabrera. Taylor drove in three runs with a tiebreaking double in the sixth inning, rallying the Los Angeles Dodgers past the St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 on Monday night to snap a three-game skid. “C.T. was just relentless in that at-bat,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

Triple-A Oklahoma City pitching coach Jamey Wright meets with Dodgers top prospect Josiah Gray in Thursday’s game at Round Rock. “He’s been awesome, man,” Gray said of Wright on Tuesday. “I think he’s a really integral part of the organization, and is going to be a really important guy for us Triple-A pitchers right now.” Dodgers top prospect Josiah Gray looked very good in his Triple-A debut on Thursday, striking out 10 in five innings for Oklahoma City. His trouble spot came in ...

We will always include a link to the full Closer Depth Chart at the bottom of the Bullpen Report each day. It’s also accessible from the RosterResource drop-down menu and from any RosterResource page. Please let us know what you think. The 2021 version of Bullpen Report includes five different sections, as well as the closer chart, which can be found at the bottom of the page. Notable Workloads: Primary closers or valuable members of a closer committee who have been deemed unavailable or like...

Los Angeles Dodgers Hot Start Puts MLB All-Time Wins Record In Play 04/21/21 AT 12:50 PM Entering the season with higher expectations than any team in recent years, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been even better than projected. A hot start could mean that the defending World Series champs are on their way to a historic regular season. The Dodgers are 14-4 after 18 games, already starting to create separation between themselves and the best teams in baseball. With 11% of the schedule complete,...