Category: at Dodger Stadium
Dodgers 2015 Promo Schedule
The Dodgers promotional schedule for 2015 is out! WOO-HOO!! I like the 1965 Replica ring with the Old-Timers game on Saturday May 16. Here is the rest of the promo schedule:
APRIL
Wed, Apr 8 vs the Padres
Adult Replica Pullover Jacket
Mon, Apr 13 vs the Mariners
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Don Newcombe
Wed, Apr 15 vs The Mariners
Adult Jackie Robinson Replica Jersey
Fri, Apr 17 vs The Rockies
Friday Night Fireworks
Sun, Apr 19 vs The Rockies
Viva Los Dodgers
Mon, Apr 27 vs The Giants
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Don Drysdale
Wed, Apr 29 vs The Giants
Fleece Blanket
MAY
Fri, May 1 vs D-backs
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, May 2 vs D-backs
Dodgers Reusable Tote Bag
Sun, May 3 vs D-backs
Kids’ Replica Jersey. Viva Los Dodgers
Tue, May 12 vs Marlins
Bobblehead #1
Thu, May 14 vs Rockies
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Sandy Koufax
Fri, May 15 vs Rockies
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, May 16 vs Rockies
1965 World Series Replica Ring. Old-Timers Game
Sun, May 17 vs Rockies
Viva Los Dodgers
Sat, May 23 vs Padres
Bobblehead #2
Sun, May 24 vs Padres
Viva Los Dodgers
Mon, May 25 vs Braves
Garden Gnome
Wed, May 27 vs Braves
Coaster Set
JUNE
Thu, Jun 4 vs Cardinals
Bobblehead #3
Fri, Jun 5 vs Cardinals
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, Jun 6 vs Cardinals
Hollywood Stars Game
Sun, Jun 7 vs Cardinals
Kids’ Cereal Bowl. Viva Los Dodgers
Tue, Jun 9 vs D-backs
T-Shirt
Wed, Jun 17 vs Rangers
Beach Bag
Thu, Jun 18 vs Rangers
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Mike Marshall
Fri, Jun 19 vs Giants
Friday Night Fireworks
Sun, Jun 21 vs Giants
Father’s Day BBQ Set. Viva Los Dodgers
JULY
Fri, Jul 3 vs Mets
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, Jul 4 vs Mets
4th of July Fireworks
Sun, Jul 5 vs Mets
Photo Day. Viva Los Dodgers
Mon, Jul 6 vs Phillies
Bobblehead #4
Wed, Jul 8 vs Phillies
Hello Kitty Plush
Fri, Jul 10 vs Brewers
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, Jul 11 vs Brewers
Bobblehead #5
Sun, Jul 12 vs Brewers
Kids’ Hamper. Viva Los Dodgers
Wed, Jul 29 vs Athletics
Bobblehead #6
Fri, Jul 31 vs Angels
Friday Night Fireworks
AUGUST
Sun, Aug 2 vs Angels
Cap. Viva Los Dodgers
Mon, Aug 10 vs Nationals
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Fernando Valenzuela
Thu, Aug 13 vs Reds
Bobblehead #7
Fri, Aug 14 vs Reds
Friday Night Fireworks
Sun, Aug 16 vs Reds
Spray Bottle with Fan. Viva Los Dodgers
Fri, Aug 28 vs Cubs
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, Aug 29 vs Cubs
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Orel Hershiser
Sun, Aug 30 vs Cubs
Headphones
SEPTEMBER
Tue, Sep 1 vs Giants
Bobblehead #8
Mon, Sep 14 vs Rockies
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Eric Gagne
Wed, Sep 16 vs Rockies
Bobblehead #9
Fri, Sep 18 vs Pirates
Friday Night Fireworks
Sun, Sep 20 vs Pirates
Cy Young Collectors’ Pin Series: Clayton Kershaw. Viva Los Dodgers
Mon, Sep 21 vs D-backs
Sleeved Blanket
Wed, Sep 23 vs D-backs
Bobblehead #10
OCT
Fri, Oct 2 vs Padres
Friday Night Fireworks
Sat, Oct 3 vs Padres
La Gran Fiesta Viva Los Dodgers
Sun, Oct 4 vs Padres
Fan Appreciation Day
Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
This week’s WordPress photo challenge is Endurance. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/endurance/
I started scanning the pictures in my iphone to see what I could use. I came across a picture and a little video I took of an oldtimer Dodger fan with a very old Dodger baseball cap. I heard him talking with an usher about his hat so I asked if I could take a picture.
His name is Paul. I caught him just before the elevator in the Top Deck of Dodger Stadium came. I knew I had a short window to do a quick little video.
Dave got the hat on August 31, 1959. This is the second year the Dodgers played at the Coliseum. He says in the Video that Sandy Koufax piched that day against the Giants. He had gone with his future father in law. At that time, the lady with him was his girlfriend. They were to marry the following week.
Dave could not remember who pitched for the Giants but I looked it up. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN195908310.shtml
Jack Sanford pitched for the Giants. The Dodgers with Sandy Koufax on the mound won the game 5-2.
Dave did remember that Wally Moon hit one of his famous moonshots. Dave also remembers Willie McCovey hitting a homerun off Koufax.
Some endurance that LA Dodgers hat has withstood!The hat is 55 years old and he still wears to Dodger Stadium.
Dave’s hat, marraige and his his love lasting 55 years years and still going.
Game Tankas 09/02/14 Dodgers 4, Nationals 1
I have done haikus in the past but did not know about Tankas. Haikus are a three-line poem of 5/7/5 syllables. Tankas have two additional lines of 7 syllables so they are 5/7/5/7/7. I was reading the WordPress Monday writing challenge for this week to write a tanka or a set of tankas https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_writing_challenge/full-tanka/
Here it is what I came up with during Clayton Kershaw masterpiece performance yesterday at Dodger Dodger Stadium.
Kershaw on the mound
Pederson playing center
Good omen this night
First Major League hit for Joc
A single in the second!
The crowd is roaring
Kershaw wheeling and dealing
Cy Young performance
reached 200 K’s tonight
5th straight time in his career
Kershaw can hit too
With a single in the fifth
Daring base running
after a single by Dee
broke open the scoreless game
Home-run Uribe!
With Crawford on base Woo-Hoo!
score four to zero
but in the fifth Bryce homered
Only run Kershaw allowed
Kershaw 8 innings
3 hits, 1 earned run allowed
2 walks, 8 strikeouts
Kershaw wins his 17
ERA 1.7
pictures by Jon SooHoo
Rene Cardenas interviews Dodger Catcher Mike Scioscia in Spanish
I love this old interview! Long time Spanish broadcaster Rene Cardenas interviews Mike Scioscia in Spanish. I love hearing Mike talk in Spanish. Mike Scioscia used to be one of my favorite players. I loved how he blocked the plate. I used to sit behind homeplate in the Loge level. There was an older lady sitting behind me that like me, used to go to the games by herself. Whenever she was not at the game because she also had tickets to the Lakers, I used to buy her ticket so that I could take one of my little cousins to the game.
I did not know how well Mike speaks Spanish. Unlike now, back then I only used to listen to the games in English.
Here is the interview:
Pictures of the No-Hitters Pins
I got pictures of the no-Hitters Pins. Usher and friend Cynthia had them on to promote the games
Monday 9/1, Labor Day josh Beckett no-hitter pin will be given out. The Washington Nationals will be in town. The no-hitter was 5/25 against the Phillies at Philadelphia.
Josh Beckett no-hitter pin
Monday September 22 against the Giants we will get the Clayton Kershaw no-hitter pin. The no-hitter was at Dodger Stadium June 13 against the Rockies. Yes! I was at the stadium.
Clayton Kershaw no-hitter pin
Post done on my iphone from Dodger Stadium. It is not too easy to do that on your phone. Maybe with practice I can get better doing this on my phone.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhoutte
Getting back to posting about the Weekly Photo Chalkenge. A nice way to get me back to the routine of posting in my blog that I have neglected. Hopefully after this post I will get back to posting more often
This week’s challenge Silhoutte made me think of a picture I took at … Where else? Dodger Stadium. Here the link to this week’s photo Challenge
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/silhouette-2014/
I like how you can see the kid with his baseball hat
Clayton Kershaw First No-hitter: June 18, 2014
Tuesday night after the game I was telling my brother Victor “I need to go to the hair salon. Not sure if I want to go Wednesday afer work or Thursday after work. One of those two days I need to do laundry since I am heading to San Diego for the weekend to see the Dodgers” He said “Do the laundry Thursday night. Kershaw is pitching Wednesday. Who knows! He might throw a no-hitter”
I did leave the laundry for Thursday night. I am so glad I Did! Wednesday night after the hair salon I headed to Dodger Stadium. I was glad my friend Lorena who has not been feeling well, went to the game. I am sorry that my brother Victor missed the game. He gave me the advice to go but skipped the game.
What a great night! congratulations to our NIÑO DE ORO Clayton Kershaw! pitching his first no-hitter!
The bubble machine at Dodger Stadium was going in full blast celebrating Kershaw’s no-hitter.
From mlb.si.com:
Clayton Kershaw didn’t just throw a no-hitter Wednesday night; he turned in one of the most dominant pitching performances in major league history. Calling his performance a no-hitter merely puts it on a list with 276 other games in which a pitcher didn’t allow a hit over nine or more innings. What Kershaw did by retiring 27 of 28 batters, the exception coming on a Hanley Ramirez throwing error, and striking out 15 of them belongs on a much shorter list.
To begin with, using Game Score, a method of evaluating starting pitching performances created by Bill James in 1988, Kershaw’s outing was the second-best nine-inning pitching performance of the last 100 years. Here’s the all-time* top five:
Pitcher Game Score Date IP H R ER BB K Kerry Wood 105 May 6, 1998 9 1 0 0 0 20 Clayton Kershaw 102 June 18, 2014 9 0 0 0 0 15 Matt Cain 101 June 13, 2012 9 0 0 0 0 14 Nolan Ryan 101 May 1, 1991 9 0 0 0 2 16 Sandy Koufax 101 Sept. 9, 1965 9 0 0 0 0 14
*game data, and thus comprehensive game scores, only goes back to 1914
Congratulations kid on your first no-hitter!
Chat with Yasiel Puig. Part two
I was disappointed that Yasiel Puig was late getting to the game yesterday. I don’t know whose fault that was. his driver? but Yasiel is also to blame. Ok, but that is not why I started this post.
I forgot some of the conversation in my prior post. After Wednesday’s Dodger win in San Diego, my friend Lorena reminded me of something I left out from my first post.
While at the café in San Diego on Monday, I told Yasiel we were there Sunday for the Opener and we were going to be there for the next two games. Rosie then said “except for me, I leave tonight because I have to go back to work” Yasiel then said “Oh, if we win the next two games, then I am going to blame you for the loss yesterday (Sunday).” Rosie said “OMG!” and we all laughed. Yasiel then said “I am going to post your picture at the entrances so they won’t let you in.” When the game was over on Wednesday night at Petco Park, Lorena said “Rosie can’t come to the game.” Well, Rosie was at yesterday’s home opener and the Dodgers lost so here is a picture of Rosie:
Rosie talking to Puig.
Rosie, Emma and Lorena. picture by Jon SooHoo. Las Beisboleras!
You are welcome Rosie! What are friends for 😉 Dodger wins come first! You can come back if I give you a “limpia” with ruda. We will give you a cleansing with Rue (that hierba is very odorous) or we send you to a brujo.
Trader Joe’s Dodger Fearless Fan of the Day
Who remembers when Trader Joe’s and the Dodgers had the “Fearless Fan of the Day” At Dodger stadium? I remember that day during batting practice I was walking with a Trader Joe’s bag in the field level when a lady stopped me and asked me if I wanted to be the “Fearless fan of the day”. she said “you get to go on the field, but you have to wear this”. The this was a Dodger Hawaiian shirt. She had me at “you get to go on the field”. What I can’t remember is what year that was.
Here is the video from that day;
Dodgers: Please bring back our Paper Season Tickets
One of the things I looked forward to every year is getting that special box from the Dodgers in the mail with my season tickets. I was always giddy with anticipation when I got that call from home that a package had arrived from the Dodgers. I would wonder “How do the tickets look like this year?” Would they have current players pictures or past player pictures, pictures of Dodger past history? No matter what the Dodgers picked, I liked them. They were my special tickets! One of the many themes I like are “Great Moments in Dodger History.”
The minute I got home I would grab the box look at it some more, shake it and hastily opened it. Once the box was opened, I would smell the tickets just like in the movie “Fever Pitch” “They smell like World Series to me” I would tell my brother Victor year after year.
Before I became a season ticket holder for a second time, I had a mini plan package with my friend Stephanie. Once the tickets arrived, we would get together for dinner and spread the tickets on the table. If she could not attend some games, I would give her a choice of another date.
Prior to home stands, my brother Victor would separate the tickets for the upcoming home stand. He would hold a set in each hand and ask me ‘left or right?” I always ended up with tickets with my favorite players either by choosing right or by bullying him.
Afterwards the tickets went into our handy holder that the Dodgers would sell at Dodger Stadium.
With this no paper season, I need to either print my tickets or show my phone so the Dodgers can scan this virtual ticket. I don’t like it. I don’t have a printer at home. All my printing I do it at work or at a library. My brother does not have a phone so he needs to print the ticket.
I am old fashion, I like having actual tickets. I like writing in back of them recording special occasions. Every once in a while, for special occasions, I like having that ticket signed if the opportunity arises. I like to record a player’s debut, his first hit, his first home run.
One of the things I don’t like when I go on road trips is having to print my own tickets or scan them from my phone. I was in Seattle when the Dodgers got no-hit. I saved my printout but as I was leaving the stadium I noticed two tickets on the floor. I was thinking “Why would anyone not want to keep such a special ticket to commemorate the no-hitter? I picked up the tickets.
Below is my ticket from Opening Day 1981 when Fernando had to step in and replace Jerry Reuss as the Opening Day pitcher. It is not on this picture, but Fernando signed it for me.
Another thing I do with the tickets is attach them to my scoresheet.
It is not going to be the same having to scan the ticket from my phone or printing those generic papers.
I was going to post some pictures of my tickets but they are at home and i am having a hard time uploading pictures.
Update: Bill Roebuck has created a petition and a facebook page. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/224152067777733/
Dodger Blue World 
