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• Mookie Betts’ Latest Career Milestone With Dodgers Puts His Red Sox Days in Shadows
Mookie Betts reached a new personal milestone with a two-homer game for the Dodgers in the 9-5 loss at home to the D-backs on Monday....2025
• Mookie Betts’ Position Switch That Could Unlock Dodgers’ Full Potential, per MLB Insider
The Dodgers are rolling, but with Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández nearing a return, a lineup change involving Mookie Betts may be needed....2025
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• Free MLB player props, odds for May 15: Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts among bets for Thursday total bases picks

SportsLine's model is on a 12-8 roll on MLB picks and revealed its MLB prop picks and MLB betting picks on sites like PrizePicks, DraftKings and FanDuel...2025
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• Mookie Betts’ Son Kaj Melts Hearts With Adorable Dash to Right Field Before Ceremonial First Pitch
Dodgers star Mookie Betts' son, Kaj Lynn, steals hearts with an adorable dash towards the right infield before throwing the ceremonial first pitch....2025
• Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts lead the way during Dodgers' hit parade

After a red-hot start to the season, the Dodgers have been enduring a roller coaster ride as of late, especially based on their standards. But on Sunday, Los Angeles dominated the Diamondbacks 8-1 to split their four-game series....2025
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• Mookie Betts Reveals the Real Reason He’ll Never Do This Again
Mookie Betts recalls his time competing in the Home Run Derby while talking to Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Teoscar Hernandez...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month

Photo by Suzanna Mitchell/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Mahle highlight baseball’s biggest surprises. There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club ...2025
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• Nationals News: Brad Lord making his first career start against the Dodgers

Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images Brad Lord is making his first career start against the defending champions, but don’t expect him to go deep With Michael Soroka headed to the IL, the Washington Nationals are going to have to be creative to fill his spot in the rotation. Today, they are turning to rookie Brad Lord, who is the best story on the team. Lord’s story is well documented by now. This o...2025
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• David vs Goliath: The Washington Nationals take on the mighty Dodgers

Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals are taking on the greatest juggernaut in baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers It will be a David vs Goliath style matchup this week as the Washington Nationals take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have taken the baseball world by storm with their unprecedented spending spree the last two off-seasons. They owe 8 players over $1 bil...2025
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• The Road Trip from Hell comes to a close

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images An absolutely calamitous road trip out West finally comes to a close for the Braves, as they find themselves in a massive hole to start the season. A week ago today, the Atlanta Braves began the 2025 season full of hope and optimism. 7 days and 7 games later, the Atlanta Braves still have yet to win a game and are off to one of the worst starts in fran...2025
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• Braves lose heartbreaker to Dodgers on Ohtani walk off

Sad day for Braves | Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images The offense scored five runs, but failed in some very key moments. The Atlanta Braves faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the series finale in a matchup that looked lopsided in the Dodgers’ favor. Two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell was on the bump for the Dodgers against injury replacement call-up Bryce Elder who has struggled since June of ...2025
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• Braves look to avoid sweep against Dodgers as Bryce Elder takes the mound

Bryce Elder looks to help Braves get their first win of 2025 | Brett Davis-Imagn Images The Braves will be deploying Bryce Elder in hopes of avoiding their seventh loss in as many games against the Dodgers. The Atlanta Braves are taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight in a clash of two teams that are having polar opposite starts to their seasons. The Braves are six games into the season...2025
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• The Braves will be fine, right? Right?

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Surely there’s no way this team is this bad, right? Come cope with me, y’all. The Atlanta Braves are currently off to an absolutely abysmal start, especially when compared to the lofty expectations that this ballclub had heading into the season. They’ve played six games, lost six games and the reason is glaringly clear. The offense has been nightmaris...2025
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• Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman Reveals How He Re-Injured Ankle, Provides Huge Update on Health

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman suffered a fluke injury over the weekend when he slipped entering the shower at his home. Freeman said his main shower had a leak, so he was using the one in his guest bathroom. He fell while stepping into it, re-aggravating his ankle injury. More news: Mookie Betts Has …...2025
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 29, 2025

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images The baseball season resumes! Sam McDowell writes about the positives from a bullpen that blew it on Opening Day. During a month (or two) in which Royals manager Matt Quatraro will probably be tinkering with how to use his new-look bullpen, there will probably be some second-guessing of his decision to yank ace Cole Ragans in favor of Zer...2025
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"Hansen, who interfered with Dodgers star Mookie Betts during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium from attending any games at big league ballparks."

2024
"The Yankees fans who were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series after interfering with Dodgers star Mookie Betts have been banned from attending Game 5, a source told ESPN."

2023
"Dodgers' Mookie Betts opts for Airbnb over Milwaukee's allegedly haunted Pfister Hotel during road trip"

2022
"The Dodgers traded Verdugo and others for Mookie Betts in Feb."

2021
"LOOK: Mookie Betts retrieves first home run ball for Cincinnati Reds rookie TJ Friedl"

2020
"The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a deal with the Boston Red Sox that would send star outfielder Mookie Betts and starter David Price to the Dodgers, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN."

2019
"MLB rumors: Dodgers remain in touch about Mookie Betts; Angels, Cardinals among teams after Hyun-Jin Ryu"

2018
"Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts acknowledge tension in the Red Sox clubhouse last year."

2017
"After rallying from being down two in the ninth, the Red Sox needed 10 additional innings to walk off with a win, as Hanley Ramirez singled home Mookie Betts in the 19th inning to defeat the Blue Jays, 3-2, as Tuesday night became Wednesday morning."

2016
"A batting barrage led by the second three-homer game from Mookie Betts this season was quite a sendoff for the Red Sox as they wrapped up their homestand by dominating the D-backs, 16-2, on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park."

2015
"Mookie Betts lifted a sacrifice fly to center field in the 19th inning off Esmil Rogers, sending Xander Bogaerts home with the deciding run as the Red Sox defeated the Yankees, 6-5, in the longest game played at the current Yankee Stadium."

2014
"Meanwhile, the team still has Rusney Castillo, Mookie Betts, Shane Victorino, Allen Craig and Jackie Bradley Jr."

• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball

Photo by Brett Davis/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, May 7, 2025 If Gus Lobel, Clint Eastwood’s character in the 2012 film Trouble with the Curve, were to examine the Colorado Rockies, he would likely note their struggles with the breaking ball. However, upon further look, he would discover that the Rockies are also struggling against the fastball, thus settin...2025
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• Braves look to exact revenge on the Dodgers - and here’s how you can watch

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Atlanta welcomes in some of the biggest stars in the game with refrains of, “Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA!” The Atlanta Braves return home to Truist Park to start the month of May with revenge on their minds as they clash with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After wrapping up an April with a 14-16 record after a 4-2 road trip to end of the month, the Braves were a...2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month
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• Nationals News: Brad Lord making his first career start against the Dodgers
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• David vs Goliath: The Washington Nationals take on the mighty Dodgers
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions

Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Lots of players got contract extensions. More on the torpedo bat. The Dodgers are hot and the Braves are not. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. We’re leading off with a whole mess of contact extensions today and none of them are Kyle Tucker. First off, Red Sox lefty Garrett Crochet agreed to a six-year, $170 million contract. extension. Dan Szymborski...2025
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• The Road Trip from Hell comes to a close
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• Braves look to avoid sweep against Dodgers as Bryce Elder takes the mound
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• Outside The Confines: ‘Twas the day before Opening Day

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images The season is about to start, so there are predictions. Some players get traded. Others get cut. A look back at Freddie Freeman’s dramatic World Series home run and other news from MLB. Good morning. Last day without baseball for a while, no? On the eve of (domestic) Opening Day, ESPN dot com previews all 30 teams and ranks them into tiers. Tom Verduc...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves are done with the Dodgers and considering how this season’s series went, not a moment sooner! The Atlanta Braves were riding high heading into this series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were on a run of having won four straight series and had just returned home from a productive road trip out West against the Diamondbac...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month
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• A look at a scoring change on Shohei Ohtani that I think MLB got wrong

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images What do you think? Here’s the very first play — in fact, on just the second pitch — of last Tuesday’s Cubs/Dodgers game at Wrigley Field. Shohei Ohtani was the batter [VIDEO]. At the time of the play, this was ruled an error on Gage Workman. Workman is now a member of the White Sox after the Cubs DFA’d him the next day following that error. Shōta I...2025
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• Cubs 7, Dodgers 6: Sweep!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs won this brief two-game set — and the season series — from the supposedly mighty Dodgers. I told you this was a good Cubs team! They spotted the Dodgers a lead, came back to take a one-run advantage, blew that lead partly on bad defense, then came back again and held on with solid relief pitching to defeat the Dodgers 7-6 Wednesday e...2025
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• Series Preview: Washington Nationals vs Colorado Rockies

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Nats travel to Colorado to take on the worst team in baseball In the third and final road series on this road trip, the Nats will hop on a plane from Pittsburgh and ride the jet stream into Denver, Colorado. In the same way, we’ll hopefully see a James Wood homer ride the jet stream into the Coors Field seats. The Nationals are coming off a pair of tough seri...2025
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• New look Braves lineup as Ozzie Albies leads off and Marcell Ozuna bats second

Marcell Ozuna has had the best success on the team against Blake Snell | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Harris, Baldwin, and Kelenic are not in the lineup, and Fairchild makes his debut. The Atlanta Braves and their struggling offense will be taking on two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight in hopes of breaking a terrible streak of only two runs in t...2025
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• The Braves will be fine, right? Right?
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for March 29, 2025
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates as Braves drop 2-1 pitchers’ duel

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Grant Holmes was great but Yoshinobu Yamamoto was even better. Grant Holmes had one of the best nights of his career as a starter so far. Unfortunately, this coincided with Yoshinobu Yamamoto continuing to dominate on the mound and as such, the Atlanta Braves ended up dropping this one in a tight, low-scoring and rain-delayed 2-1 defeat. Grant Holmes made...2025
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• Mookie Betts Gives 10-Word Warning to Shohei Ohtani About Fatherhood
Fortunately, Shohei Ohtani isn’t navigating fatherhood alone. Teammates like Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández, are ready with support....2025
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• Outside The Confines: Extensions, extensions
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• Braves lose heartbreaker to Dodgers on Ohtani walk off
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• The Braves will be fine, right? Right?
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• Tigers @ Dodgers March 29, 2025: Sasaki starts as the Dodgers look for the sweep
(Photo: Jon SooHoo) It didn’t take long for the 2025 Dodgers to create a special moment, with an underweight Mookie Betts hitting a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning, and a walk-off three run shot in the bottom of the tenth. It was a very back and forth game, with the win probability showcasing just …...2025
• Mookie Betts' walk-off homer was emotional moment for Dodgers SS

Watching the ball sail over the left field fence was a special moment for Mookie Betts, considering those struggles early this season....2025
• Cub Tracks’ southbound Suarez

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Forget about the Tokyo Series. Try to win this one. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then c...2025
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• Sources: Red Sox trading Betts, Price to Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a deal with the Boston Red Sox that would send star outfielder Mookie Betts and starter David Price to the Dodgers, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. The deal is pending medical reviews....2020
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• Sources: Red Sox trading Betts, Price to Dodgers
The Boston Red Sox have agreed to trade star outfielder Mookie Betts and starter David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers, sources tell ESPN's Jeff Passan. Boston's return includes outfielder Alex Verdugo, sources said....2020
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• Extra effort: Red Sox outlast Yanks in 19 innings
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• Extra effort: Red Sox outlast Yanks in 19 innings
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• Sox get even in 9th, out at plate in 11th, W in 19!
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• Hey 19! Red Sox prevail over Jays in marathon
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• Mookie's 6 RBIs power Sox's rout of A's
Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts led a batting barrage and Eduardo Rodriguez pitched his best game in weeks, leading the Red Sox to an 11-1 rout over the Athletics on Tuesday night at Fenway Park....2017
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• Mookie's six RBIs power rout of A's
Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts led a batting barrage and Eduardo Rodriguez pitched his best game in weeks, leading the Red Sox to an 11-1 rout over the Athletics on Tuesday night at Fenway Park....2017
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• Outside The Confines: Is Mookie Betts trading strike-outs for strikes?

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images (It’s a very clever joke because he bought a bowling league franchise.) It’s not mystery that baseball players, being athletes, are often fond of more than one sport. Plenty of baseball players were on multiple teams in high school and college, lots of guys play golf (some, like Justin Verlander were actually semi-pro, at least according to his old T...2025
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• Sometimes It Hurts- Preseason Prep- March 17, 2025
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Luck o' the Irish hasn't been with several teams and players so far in Spring Training as a rash of injuries has hit them. The first game that counts will be tomorrow when the Dodgers and Cubs face off in Tokyo. SS Mookie Betts may not be playing in the two games of the Tokyo Series. He has been suffering an illness that has forced him to miss the exhibition games tha...2025
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• Dodgers Place Max Betts
In the front row of Dodger Stadium, an empty seat adorned with only everything bagel seasoning and suspenders commemorating Larry King sat to the right of home plate. Still there in person, Mary Hart recounted how Larry used to say, "Something smells funny in my Duane Kuiper." A big game for the Dodgers, make no mistake. Almost as big as the game they lost the night before. This game they wouldn't...2021
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• Fantasy Baseball: Who's hot, who's not heading into Week 3
Another week of the 2018 regular season is in the books, which means another opportunity for players to heat up and cool off at the plate and on the mound for fantasy baseball purposes.Each week throughout the regular season, we’ll highlight 20 players (10 position players and 10 starting pitchers) who have either enjoyed the last seven days of play or are thankful that they’re over. To qualify fo...2018
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• Amid the Chaos, Red Sox Have Quietly Developed Young Core for Future
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• Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval Deals Tip of Iceberg for Latest Red Sox Reload
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• Versatility high on Red Sox’ priority list
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• Mookie Betts’ Position Switch That Could Unlock Dodgers’ Full Potential, per MLB Insider
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• Free MLB player props, odds for May 15: Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts among bets for Thursday total bases picks
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• Dodgers’ Mookie Betts Reveals How Brutal Illness Negatively Impacted Him

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts missed the start of the season because of a violent stomach virus, but once he returned to the lineup, it was as if he had not skipped a beat. More news: How Will Dodgers Replace Teoscar Hernandez in Lineup? Betts most notably headlined ring night with a 10th inning …...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: Trouble with the Fastball
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers
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• Austin Riley mashes a pair of homers as Braves hold on to 4-3 win over Dodgers

Photo by Kathryn Skeean/MLB Photos via Getty Images This was very nearly a major letdown but fortunately, the Braves were able to hold on to series-salvaging win over LA. Austin Riley’s two home runs and four RBIs ended up being enough for the Atlanta Braves in this one, as they just about held on to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in order to salvage this series with a win. Just li...2025
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• Braves follow long rain delay by getting drowned by Dodgers, 10-3

Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The winning streak of four straight series comes to a close with a blowout loss Oh, hey there. Did you know I’m starting this recap at 1:28 am ET? Well, you do now, assuming you’re even reading the recap and not just going to the comments to complain. Anyway, the Braves and Dodgers sat through a long rain delay, culminating in t...2025
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates as Braves drop 2-1 pitchers’ duel
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2316: Brebbia is the Soul of Wit

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the unexpected power of Meg’s Mariners (and Jorge Polanco, specifically), in contrast to the Rangers’ unexpectedly light-hitting lineup. They also discuss a Jackson Chourio comment about Julio Rodríguez, the long-awaited comeback of Lance McCullers Jr. and the thus-far-deflating comeback of Sandy Alcantara, the literally diminished Mookie Betts...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Dodgers Insider Reveals What Illness Mookie Betts Was Reportedly Battling

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts endured a tumultuous two weeks because of an illness that has plagued him. While Betts said doctors couldn’t give an exact diagnosis for his lingering stomach aggravation, there is speculation the 32-year-old dealt with a case of norovirus. More news: Mookie Betts’ Status Revealed for Dodgers Spring Training Finale …...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2300: Our Favorite Offseason Transactions
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mookie Betts’s unwanted weight loss, new Statcast data on batter positioning, and whether hitters should generally move back in the box, then recap Cal Raleigh’s extension and a smattering of other buzzer-beating transactions before discussing (35:46) some of their favorite moves of the offseason. Then (1:10:31) they talk […]...2025
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• Dodgers 6, Cubs 3: Let’s have an overreaction party!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images As a Dodgers official I rode down in an elevator with after the game said, “It’s just two games.” TOKYO — You could look at it the way I noted below the headline. Or you could look at the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome, a sweep the Dodgers completed without two of their best players (Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman) and utterly panic as t...2025
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• Over/Under on 2025 Braves projections: Part Two

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Diving into 5 more projections before the Braves first spring training game. For part one, click here. Baseball is a beautiful, wonderful, stupid sport. It’s famously the most random major sport in the US, and it doesn’t take much searching to find numerous examples of its unpredictability. Chris Sale went 18-3 in 2024 as he domi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2025

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images How would you grade the Royals’ off-season? David Lesky tries to project Royals hitters. In right field, Melendez and Renfroe is a bit less exciting, but Melendez has a career 105 OPS+ against righties while Renfroe is at 121 vs. lefites. Neither was that good against their desired platoon matchups last year, which is concerning and a big reason why they ne...2025
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• What do you get when you hire Hyers?

Photo by Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Kevin Seitzer’s departure was a bit of a shock, but the addition of Tim Hyers seems somewhat obvious in retrospect I’ll be honest, I thought the Braves’ axing of Kevin Seitzer early this offseason was one of the more unexpected, shocking things to happen to this team in its current, post-rebuild, contending era. If you asked me for my top...2025
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• Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Did the Braves wiggle out of their comfort zone? Does it matter? I considered titling this post, “So Profar, So Good,” but, that seemed to make little sense at this juncture, and that was a headline-in-the-sand I’m not willing to cross at this point. Did the Atlanta Braves do well by signing Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million de...2025
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• A Yankees fan tried to wrestle a ball away from Mookie Betts

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Don’t do this, kids. Just don’t. You’ve certainly heard plenty about the Mookie Betts vs. Yankees fan incident from Game 4 of the World Series. I have opinions, so here goes! First, have another look at the play [VIDEO]. Betts, clearly, was not happy about this and you can see the play was immediately ruled fan interferernce and the batter, Gleyber Torre...2024
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• Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts have the most unfortunate jersey mashup

OHTANI BETTS While the Dodgers are in the grips of the bizarre Shohei Ohtani betting scandal their jerseys aren’t doing much to defend their star player. Here is all the proof you need ‘Ohtani Betts’ pic.twitter.com/BEOddd5zpX— ProphetZero (@ProphetxZero) March 25, 2024 In what might be the most unfortunate mashup of all time, it really doesn’t help the argument that Ohtani isn’t betting wh...2024
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