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J.P. Hoornstra
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National Baseball Writer for Newsweek Sports
The Big Lead
Sometimes SportsNetLA
BBWAA
Dad to 凯禮思, 爱佳
Husband to 懐葳
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Author of “The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All Time”
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As part of the changes coming to the Home Run Derby, Netflix will encourage batters to swing away until a giant doll in center field swivels her animatronic head around and, hey, who knows what will happen next?!
The giant doll from Squid Games that shoots contestants in "red light, green light"
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social looking forward to your obits
Stranger Things Eggos, because when those waffles don’t come up they can only be in the Upside Down Diet Coke lime. More like Diet Puke.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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SOX!

Now that I have your attention ...
The Chicago White Sox released a graphic titled "THE SECOND POSITION PLAYER FOURSOME IN SOX HISTORY" with the words "to record a 1.0-plus WAR mark in their age 23-or-younger season" in small print below. Congrats to Colson Montgomery, Chase Meidroth, Edgar Quero and Kyle Teel on whatever it is you did.
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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If you’re a Dodgers player who stopped in today to clean out your locker, this is what you saw at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vin Scully Avenue as you were driving home, contemplating the merits of a White House visit in 2026.
FUCK ICE graffiti outside Dodger Stadium
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is getting eaten alive by his teammates on the field after the World Series. They are hungry. They are tired. They are zombies. And he is delicious, who can blame them?
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Spotted in Los Angeles #spooky
BEWARE BLUE JAYS FANS AHEAD sign outside a house on Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Something:
The Dodgers' lineup for Game 6 of the World Series: Ohtani DH Smith C Freeman 1B Betts SS Teo RF Muncy 3B Kiké LF Edman CF Rojas 2B
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Better call Alex
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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When Blake Snell realizes he's hit lyrical gold
Blake Snell on Will Klein: "That was just will power and I -- I didn't mean to say that, but yeah, it goes together."
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Last night:
• 5 Future Hall of Famers ✅ (Scherzer, Kershaw, Betts, Freeman, Ohtani)
• Unpredictable finish ✅
• Immediate sense of history ✅

Best World Series game ever?

Here are the opening paragraphs from my chapter on what could be the reigning #1 (book is linked below)
A walk-off double is also how, as a washed-up 34-year-old called “Cookie,” Lavagetto authored one of the greatest finishes in baseball history. Game four of the 1947 World Series was extraordinary for reasons beyond the Dodgers walking off the New York Yankees in the bottom of the ninth inning. It remains one of the finest gatherings of baseball talent on a diamond. Five future Hall of Famers had a hand in the outcome: Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. The Dodgers drew ten walks against the opposing starter, a World Series record. The Dodgers’ 3-2 win tied the series at two games apiece. Yet these are all historical footnotes. To achieve immortality, the game required superlative contributions from three fairly ordinary major leaguers: Lavagetto, who clubbed the game-winning hit; Yankees pitcher Bill Bevens, who took a no-hitter into the ninth inning; and the Dodgers’ Al Gionfriddo, who stole second base with two outs in the ninth inning and scored the game-tying run. None of the three played a major-league game after the series was over. Like a star going supernova, each player saved his best for last. The 33,443 fans in attendance at Ebbets Field couldn’t have known that Bevens, Gionfriddo and Lavagetto were at the end of the road, but there was a strong sense of the moment. The New York Times reported that some fans resolved never to attend a baseball game again, knowing they would never see a better one.
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Apropos of nothing, if you're searching in Getty Images for "Rich Hill" and "Royals," this will come up as the best match. Seems appropriate, somehow.
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Dodgers in Game 3:
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Nobody gets Lou Gehrig’d off my #immaculategrid
Nine men who have never been in my kitchen
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Life of a farmgirl
A stuffed statue at a pumpkin patch in LA depicts a woman wearing a purple dress and holding a pumpkin with the words “HAYLOR SWIFT” written on it. Her “hair” is made of hay.
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I was curious
I asked chatgpt who buster posey should hire from a DI college to manage the Giants. It picked Jay Johnson from LSU.
October 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Feels like I'm the only one who remembers baseball can't be ruined because the 2002 Minnesota Twins already saved it forever.
Cover of a 2002 ESPN the Magazine edition proclaiming the Minnesota Twins "the team that saved baseball"
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Yeah, that'll teach them to ... checks notes ... draw the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS.
Headline: "Trolling the Chicago Cubs with an 'L' flag backfires on Milwaukee Brewers"
October 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Updated Shohei Ohtani Statcast insanity
October 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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When anyone refers to this as the greatest individual performance in a postseason game:
Statcast leaderboard from Dodgers-Brewers NLCS Game 4 showing a lot of Shohei Ohtani
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Les Miz
Iconic “Les Miserables” artwork
October 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The 2025 Dodgers just might have to 1966 Baltimore Orioles their way through a best-of-seven series.
The composite Orioles pitching lines from the 1966 World Series. Four men threw a pitch. Seven relievers on the roster never appeared in a game.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Roki Sasaki? The starter?
Conan O’Brien guy dot gif
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Cubs, Yankees: We're minimalist, here's the exact info you need, nothing more/less
Phillies: Read our roster before Kyle Schwarber emerges from the Philadelphia skyline to beat you to death with a bat
Cubs Game 1 lineup Yankees ALDS roster Phillies NLDS roster
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Yup
A squirrel eyes a book called “Those Darn Squirrels”
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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No matter what random-ass milestone your team accomplishes in Game 162 today, just remember there’s a hat waiting to commemorate it.
The ugliest hat ever made celebrates the four Dodgers who hit 30 home runs in 1997: Mike Piazza, Eric Karros, Todd Zeile, Raul Mondesi.
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM