Mookie Betts

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts won his fifth consecutive Gold Glove Award on Tuesday, and won his third straight Silver Slugger award, fourth overall on Thursday. Both awards were his first as a member of the Dodgers. The 28-year-old two-time World Series Champion becomes the second straight Dodger player to win both awards. Centerfielder, and 2019 NL MVP Cody…

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts could become the second player to win the MVP award in each league, and New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom is in the running for his third consecutive NL Cy Young Award. The competition, of course, is tough. Betts, Freddie Freeman and Manny Machado are the top finishers for NL MVP in balloting by…

Joc Pederson took a deep breath, exhaled, and then swung like his life depended on it. The baseball landed 430-feet away, bouncing off the back wall of the Tampa Bay bullpen. After Pederson touched home plate and jogged back to the dugout, he took his helmet off. Ordinarily, you would expect a look of jubilation or glee upon his face….

Justin Turner trotted around the bases, his long red beard bouncing back and forth, the back of his uniform stained by a pine-tar infused backswing. Before touching home plate Turner looked up at the Dodgers dugout and mouthed something inaudible for the 11,447 in attendance, but that resonated clearly with his teammates: “We can beat this guy.” To fully understand…

The Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Dodgers will battle for the 2020 World Series title after a pandemic-shortened 60 game season and expanded playoffs.

His fist was raised high in the air in triumph. The ball hadn’t even landed yet, but it was as if Walker Buehler already knew what was about to happen. Over 300 feet away Mookie Betts was hastily backpedaling before leaping up at the last second. His eyes closed as he crashed into the wall. He had just made the…

The sign read: “HIT IT HERE.” Will Smith obliged. With his bat in hand and his teammates jumping over the dugout railing and pouring onto the field, Smith ran halfway down the first base line before he finally threw his bat and turned to them in exultation. He had just hit the biggest home run of his young career, and…

It was only a matter of time. Before the seventh inning of Game 2 of the NLCS the Los Angeles Dodgers had gone 10 innings without scoring a run. Then a sleeping giant was awakened. Corey Seager hit a three-run homer, and the Dodgers scored four more runs in the bottom of the ninth to nearly pull off a miraculous…

Over the last eight seasons, the Dodgers are used to going deep into the MLB playoffs. Over that span, Los Angeles reached the Division series seven times, the championship series four times, and the World Series two times. So winning a Wild Card series might not be cause for a raucous celebration, but in the unusual and uncharted territory that…

Another day, another pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers made his spring training debut. Monday marked a first for two such players, as one of the newest Dodgers, David Price, made his Dodger and Cactus League debut, and Julio Urias made his first appearance of spring training. Price took the mound against the Cincinnati Reds in Goodyear, AZ for the…

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher David Price discusses how he felt after making his spring training debut with the Boys in Blue against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday, March 2, 2020.

The newest members of the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitcher David Price and outfielder Mookie Betts, were going about their daily lives when they each got the jarring news that they had been traded. Both had heard their names mentioned in trade rumors throughout the offseason, but the surprise still stung like the frozen wind at Fenway Park in the heart…

Position players reported to spring training on Monday as full squad workouts begin at Camelback Ranch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. For many, Monday was fans first glimpse at newest Dodger, Mookie Betts, fielding and hitting while wearing Dodger Blue. The timing of Betts first official day with the Dodgers coincides with the arrival of a new Mookie Betts bobblehead,…

The two newest members of the Los Angeles Dodgers, David Price and Mookie Betts, discuss where they were when they heard they were tried, and why they’re hungry to win another World Series in LA.

The newest pitcher on the Los Angeles Dodgers, David Price, discusses his new team, and provides updates to his injured left wrist that he underwent surgery on during the offseason.

The Los Angeles Dodgers took a risk in acquiring 2012 American League Cy Young Award Winner, David Price, from the Boston Red Sox in the trade that also landed them Mookie Betts. The 34-year-old left-hander is coming off one of his worst seasons in 2019. Price went 7-5 with a 4.28 ERA in 22 games with the Red Sox last…

Imagine for a second you’re sitting at your cubicle or desk at work and suddenly your phone goes off. Message after message of congratulations and condolences begin to fill your inbox. “What are they talking about?” You ask yourself. You go on social media and see your name mentioned everywhere. Apparently you’re about to be transferred to another company....

The Los Angeles Dodgers are adding a former Cy Young Award winner and MVP. The Dodgers and Boston Red Sox have agreed to a deal that would send 2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts and 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner David Price to Los Angeles pending physicals, sources told NBC LA. Sources indicated that after months of negotiations between the…