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Nothing like growing up seeing Mike Piazza, Eric Karros, Martinez,Heido Nomo my era of the best dodger line up. So rich that a guy who has won three Cy Young Awards only ranks as the seventh greatest figure in franchise history, and the third greatest pitcher. One of the most beloved Dodgers while he was playing, Steve Garvey checks in as the 12th-greatest Dodger of all time. We asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time.
He began the season 8-0 with five shutouts, and was the runaway winner of the rookie of the year and Cy Young awards after finishing 13-7 with a 2.48 earned-run average. Maury Wills is credited by many with bringing the stolen base back to baseball. In his first full season as Dodgers shortstop , Wills led the league with 50 stolen bases, becoming the first National League player to steal 50 since Max Carey stole 51 in 1923. Game 3 was the first baseball game to be televised nationally, even reaching U.S. soldiers stationed in Korea, and despite fog so thick it forced the stadium lights on at 2 p.m., more than 30,000 fans packed the Polo Grounds.
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He also achieved an OBP that was well above .300 each season. Another hallmark for Lopes’ Dodger career is that he batted lead-off for a team that won four NL pennants and one World Series championship. Mickey Mantle, batting right handed, put one in the left pavilion two innings later. Mantle's 15th World Series homer tied the score and tied Babe Ruth's record for Series homers.
Nomo pitched two no-hitters in his MLB career, one of which was for the Dodgers against the Colorado Rockies in September 1996. When you talk about the greatest left-handed pitchers of all time, you start with Sandy Koufax, add in Warren Spahn, Lefty Grove, Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton and figure it out from there. Scully joined the Dodgers in 1950, working alongside Radio Hall of Famer and baseball legend Red Barber. In 1976, Dodgers fans voted Scully the “most memorable personality” in Los Angeles Dodgers history.
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To his credit, Eckersley fielded every reporters' question after the game, mostly blaming himself. In Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, Babe Ruth made a pointing gesture and followed it with a home run. Although neither fully confirmed or denied, legend has it that Ruth pointed to the center field bleachers during the at-bat and on the following pitch, Ruth hit a home run over the center field wall. It only includes players who played most, if not all, of their careers with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Of course, the Uribear blast and Andrew Toles’ Coors Field granny are both equally special to me. Overall, this is a great walk down memory lane; and we leave it up to you to decide which ones meant the most to you and why. Equally important, the number one home run of the decade was Max Muncy’s walk-off shot that gave the Dodgers their only win in the 2018 World Series. By comparison, Justin Turner’s 2017 NLCS walk-off against the Chicago Cubs on the anniversary of Kirk Gibson’s famous 1988 checks in at number two.
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The next inning, however, Canseco hit a grand slam to give Oakland a two-run lead. Oakland's lead was cut to one run when Mike Scioscia hit an RBI single in the sixth inning that scored Mike Marshall. One reason why the Dodgers were considered underdogs throughout the postseason was that they did not finish the regular season ranked in the top five of any major offensive statistical category. However, they were strengthened by an excellent starting rotation led by ace Orel Hershiser and backed up by Tim Belcher, John Tudor and Tim Leary. They also had an outstanding bullpen that included Jay Howell, Jesse Orosco and Alejandro Peña.
Rich Hill went five strong, with a solo home run by Addison Russell in the fifth the only blemish. Extremely clutch former Dodger Charlie Culberson led off the bottom half of the frame with a double, scoring two outs later on Justin Turner's single off Chicago starter Jon Lester. Matt Kemp smacked a Pat Neshek slider just inside the foul pole in left for a home run and 3-2 Dodgers lead in the bottom of the eighth. LOS ANGELES -- The franchise that gave you Kirk Gibson’s “The Natural” moment provided its share of unforgettable home runs this decade as well.
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During his 10-season career, he was part of six Brooklyn Dodger pennant-winners, including the World Champions of 1955. In 1949, the six-time All-Star won the National League batting title en route to earning MVP honors. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the Major League color barrier, his number 42 was retired throughout the majors, at the order of Commissioner Bud Selig. In Game 6 of the 1993 World Series with the Blue Jays leading three games to two over the Philadelphia Phillies, Joe Carter came to bat with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning with the Blue Jays trailing 6–5 and two men on base.
Nicknamed “El Toro” or, jokingly, “El Gordo” , Fernando Valenzuela had a legendary season in 1981. He the won the NL Cy Young Award and the NL Rookie of the Year Award; this has been the only time an MLB player has achieved such a feat. Generating what came to be known as Fernandomania, at least in Los Angeles, Valenzuela helped the Dodgers win the NL pennant that year, as well as the World Series. This list includes players who spent most of their careers, or at least a significant portion of it, with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In fact, Davis was considered to be one of the fastest players during the 1960s. He had his best year in 1962 when he batted .285 with 21 home runs, 85 RBIs, and 32 stolen bases. Fournier suffered from a case of bad timing, however—arriving in the majors some 60 years before the advent of the designated hitter. He was as awful with the glove as he was sensational with the bat, and his offensive numbers weren’t enough to offset his defensive play and keep from hearing constant booing from his own fans at Ebbets Field. The catcalls got so bad that the thick-skinned Fournier considered quitting the game, and was known to take on both opposing players on the field as well as fans outside the ballpark. The home run was included as a finalist in a Major League Baseball contest to determine the sport's "Greatest Moment of All-Time." For years after the fact, it was regularly used in This Week in Baseball's closing montage sequence.
The Finley grand slam home run off Wayne Franklin scored Antonio Perez, Cesar Izturis and Jayson Werth ahead of him, clinched the NL West for Los Angeles and sent the Giants into a winter of nothingness, adding to the euphoria for the home folks. Notably, the home run Bellinger hit in game 163 of that season was a big one that was omitted from the list and perhaps shouldn’t have been. The distant memory of Kimbrel will forever be engrained in Dodgers fans minds as he looks for what can be a fresh new restart. The blown saves were a massive reason for the Dodgers to not bring Kimbrel back and a glaring issue knowing he wasn’t going to be trusted in the postseason. Ultimately, the right-hander went 6-7 with a 3.75 ERA over 63 games in his lone season in LA.
Shortly after his retirement, Garvey’s clean-cut image took a nasty hit in 1989 when he was named in multiple paternity suits while Cyndy—by now, his ex—released a tell-all book on their marriage. Hodges’ career faded into the early 1960s and, like numerous other Dodgers and Giants names from the 1950s, found himself doing mop-up work for the expansion New York Mets—with Hodges in the books as the first player to homer for the new franchise. After a long but unsuccessful stint as manager of the Washington Senators, Hodges was back in New York as the Mets’ skipper—and presided over the Amazin’ 1969 world champions. In the spring of 1972, while golfing with his coaches, Hodges suffered a fatal heart attack at age 47. Gibson injured both legs during the NLCS, and therefore did not start Game 1. Los Angeles took an early lead on an improbable two-run home run by Mickey Hatcher in the first inning.
He posted a 3.75 ERA with 72 strikeouts and gave up 51 hits across 60 innings pitched. He got 22 saves out of 27 opportunities and in May alone, he put up a 6.30 ERA. Craig Kimbrel came to LA fresh off an All-Star season where he posted a 2.26 ERA and 24 saves across 63 games. He only allowed 31 hits and collected 100 strikeouts during his 2021 season which was split between the Cubs and the White Sox. The Dodgers’ 10 Greatest Pitchers A list of the 10 greatest pitchers based on their productivity and efficiency.
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