Even though Giovanni Ramirez was once suspected of beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in the parking lot, Tuesday marked the first time the exonerated man attended a ball game at Dodger Stadium. more ›

There was much to celebrate at Dodger Stadium for the home opener, but it wasn’t the same. On the 50th anniversary to the day the first game was played (a 6-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds), the Dodgers known for squeezing the nostalgia out of a boulder did just that as they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1. But something was missing as the sun shone down on the verdant grass of Dodger Stadium. With the exception of the 1977 Masters, today marked the only other time since 1950 that Vin Scully did not call a Dodger home opener whether it be in Brooklyn or Los Angeles. more ›

Longtime Dodgers announcer Vin Scully has announced that he won't be at the Dodgers opening day this year, reports CBS Los Angeles. Scully is reportedly home with a bad cold. more ›

The Dodgers claimed Mets’ catcher Rod Barajas through the waivers. He is expected to join the team on Tuesday in Milwaukee with catcher AJ Ellis the prime candidate to being optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque in the corresponding move. more ›

The Dodgers announced this morning that Hall of Fame Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully will be returning for his 62nd season in 2011. He will remain calling entire Dodger games on television for all home games and away NL West games with the first three innings simulcast on the radio. More to come later including coverage from his press conference scheduled at 10:30 am. more ›

LA Lakers defeat Washington Wizards 99-92. The Lakers starters were focused and kept their foot on the Wizards’ throats. Unfortunately the score doesn’t reflect that because the bench decided to play willy nilly and allow the desperate Wiz to cut the deficit to single digits. They were impressive in the first half with every shot going the Lakers way... more ›

LA Lakers defeat Minnesota Timberwolves 104-96. Against the team that lost to the Phoenix Suns 152-114 Tuesday night, the Lakers just cruised throughout the game content to let them hang around. They even let the Wolves take a lead in the third quarter. But in the end the Lakers were just too much. Kobe Bryant ended up with a season high 13 assists, seven in the first quarter, along with 22 points. Pau Gasol also had a double-double with 17 points and 14 rebounds. However the injury bug is creeping back in with Andrew Bynum leaving the game with a strained Achilles tendon early in the third quarter. Head coach Phil Jackson also mentioned after the game that Lamar Odom injured his shoulder during his 18 point effort. more ›

Missing out on a little Dodger action after the heartbreaker of a post-season? Never fear, our trusty Dodgers have ensured that at least one constant will remain between last season and the next. The club announced that beloved Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully will return to the booth in Chavez Ravine to call Dodger games in 2010. more ›

LA Angels defeat Kansas City Royals 2-1. Royals pitching confounded the Angels most of the night. Instead of seeing Gil Meche who had to be scratched because of shoulder fatigue, they got Robinson Tejada. With one out in the first inning, Maicer Izturis hit a single. From there Tejada retired the following 15 batters. Finally in the eighth inning Vladimir Guerrero came through on a bases loaded single that scored two. Jered Weaver kept the affair close only giving up one run in the fourth inning. He went seven innings giving up nine hits and an intentional walk with six strikeouts. more ›

St. Louis Cardinals defeat LA Dodgers 10-0. Chad Billingsley started out strong for the Dodgers pitching a one-hit shutout after five innings. Then the sixth inning happened. Billingsley crumbled giving up two two-run singles and one one-run single. After the dust settled, the Cards put a six-spot on the Dodgers. After Claudio Vargas got two out in the eighth inning with a runner on third, Brent Leach came in and got no outs allowing the runner on third to score (run charged to Vargas) and giving up three more on his own. more ›

As the mainstream media continues to crumble around us, more and more remaining news sources are turning to the internet as a legitimate resource for information and mass appeal. You can’t watch an evening news segment without hearing the word ‘twitter’, and most every single site now has a blog associated with it. GM has a blog? Kodak? Boeing? While occasionally a corporate blog can be helpful (see also: the Google blog any time Gmail fails to function properly), for the most part they are just another buzzword that someone threw money at. And while LAist enjoys a reasonable amount of media credibility (we’re no Perez Hilton, thank god), there are still plenty of events that we can’t get into, and even more small blog sites that can’t even get their foot in the door. more ›

Beloved Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Las Vegas tomorrow. The National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame honors one radio and one television broadcaster every year. more ›

LA Lakers defeat Houston Rockets 105-100. True the Lakers can't win pretty, but who cares? With the injuries to Jordon Farmar, Sasha Vujacic and Luke Walton forcing Derek Fisher to log a lot of minutes on those aged wheels. Even Sun Yue had to log three minutes in this game. Lamar Odom was back in action after his bruised bone injury to score ten points in 27 minutes of play. Kobe led all scorers with 33 points. However former Laker Von Wafer had a career game scoring 23 points and seemed unstoppable for three quarters. But Kobe finally shut him down in the fourth quarter and gave the Lakers a nailbiting win in Houston. more ›

How do you honor a man who has received perhaps every possible award in his industry? Well the American Sportscasters Association named Scully the best sportscaster ever. In 2000 he was named "Sportscaster of the Century" by the same group. more ›

Charley Steiner will only be doing the radio play-by-play duties this upcoming season, according to The Daily News' Tom Hoffarth. This leaves an opening for the tv play-by-play job for games that Vin Scully doesn't broadcast outside of the NL and AL West stadiums. This means that Dodger fans won't have to worry about never getting an updated score thanks to Rick Monday while listening to the game on their way home. This also means Jerry Reuss is out of a job as the radio color commentator for games Scully doesn't broadcast. more ›

And the Dodgers are one out away. One sweet beautiful marvelous out away. They will take it any way shape or form. Strike out, ground ball, fly ball, fair ball, line drive, any way they can get their hands on it. That precious thing called the final out. more ›

Tampa Bay Rays defeat LA Angels 6-4. It seemed conceivable at the beginning of the season that the Angels would be fighting for the best record in baseball with a team from the AL East in August. The inconceivable part of this is the team they are fighting with is the Tampa Bay Rays. The Angels went into St. Petersburg trying to withstand the Rays who had swept the series back in May at Tropicana Field and have won four of six in total from the Angels. Angel's starter Jon Garland giving up five runs in three innings is not the way to win in this sort of situation. Although the Angels had plenty of chances down the stretch to take the lead, the Rays' bullpen made the perfect pitches when needed. Now both teams will wait and see what happens with Tropical Storm Fay (not Fay Vincent) to see if they can play the next couple of games. more ›

Mitt Romney is the consummate, cookie-cutter, robot-like Republican. Forget about eliciting animation or human emotion from this wanna-be prez. Even his campaign henchmen lack the ability to opine on, well, just about anything, as evidenced below. more ›

The beauty of baseball is constantly marred by the voice of Joe Buck on Fox. I say this because I love the game: Through his monotonous, steely voice, his lack of originality, and general smugness, Joe Buck is ruining the playoffs. more ›

While all the cheesy babybooming douches like Costas and McCarver harken back endlessly about the good ole days of the Boys of Summer before they left NY and moved to LA, keep in mind one thing - people in Brooklyn don't miss the Dodgers. They might miss Vin Scully, or decent National League baseball, but miss or care about the Bums? Faggitaboutit. "When Pee Wee Reese died," said Marty Adler, who has spent years... more ›

Back in 2004, Dodger’s owner Frank McCourt made the unpopular decision to get rid of radio play-by-play announcer Ross Porter. Porter had been on the job for 28 years, and considering he had to work with color commentator Rick Monday since 1993 he should’ve gotten hazard pay. Porter was by no means as eloquent and compelling as Vin Scully. With a few exceptions no one can enter the realm of Vin Scully. But Porter... more ›

I asked for a "souvenir helmet sundae." This is because I wanted 1) a souvenir helmet and 2) a sundae. Well, I got number 2 as this is clearly a sundae. And I got half of number 1 as this is a helmet. But how in the world is it a souvenir if it is not the helmet of the team whose STADIUM YOU ARE SITTING IN WATCHING A BALLGAME? I already have about 500 little plastic Dodger hats. Why in the name of Vin Scully would you give me another one when I am at Chase Field, home of the DIAMONDBACKS? I want an ARIZONA souvenir helmet. I didn't drive 400 miles and endure 114 degree heat to pretend I'm at Dodger Stadium. more ›

For the love of Vin Scully, people! You are going to a baseball game. You are sitting outside in 80 degree weather with no shade for three hours. At what point does it not occur to you to bring some sunblock along with you? Let's try planning ahead next time.... more ›

If it seems like Vin Scully has been doing Dodger games forever, that's because this is his 50th season broadcasting LA Dodger games (1958-2007) and his 57th as a Dodger announcer. He's one of the few major broadcasters who works alone in the booth. No color man needed, no ex-jocks, no sidekick. The only problem with that is sometimes he can casually blow you away with precise diction and perfect tone, and sometimes the... more ›

LA's airwaves have been blessed with legendary personalities over the years - Chick Hearn, Vin Scully, Jim Ladd, and Rodney on the Roq just to name a few. Just as important was Richard Blade who for decades educated LA over KROQ's air by spreading the good news of Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Duran Duran, The Cure and so many of our favorites from the '80s when KROQ ruled the world. His "Flashback Lunch" hour... more ›

He's been the LA Dodgers announcer even when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers. Handpicked by the legendary Red Barber, Vinny has been the poetic play-by-play man for the Blue Crew for 57 years, which is the longest tenure of a sports announcer with one team Ever. more ›

We told you to watch this game. We told you to watch Rafael Furcal who has been hot, and sure enough he hit a homer tonight. But so did half of the Dodgers. Four of them in a row. In a game that might permanently stop LA fans from leaving early, in the bottom of the ninth, friends, down 9-5, after just giving up three runs to San Diego in the top of the... more ›

Even the most casual of Dodgers fans knows that we are fortunate enough to have here, in our beloved City of Angels, one of the most storied franchises in all the sporting world. In the new DVD from MLB Productions, Dodger Blue – The Championship Years, we are treated to a 60-minute retrospective that includes colorful-yet-concise vignettes on the world championship teams of 1955 (the famous “Boys of Summer” and the only Brooklyn team to win it all), ’59, ’63, ’65, ’81 and ’88, as well as a look at the National League Champion teams of 1974, ’77 and ’78. The Special Features section includes the Hall Of Fame acceptance speeches of Tommy Lasorda, Don Drysdale and Duke Snider. more ›

We've commented on Paul Sunderland at length in the past. No one thinks he's a bad announcer. LAist thinks he's average, passable for most teams, and all-around good guy. But no broadcaster would ever want to follow the greatest basketball announcer of all-time, and Sunderland was stuck. more ›