Three-Inning Save: A Los Angeles Dodgers Podcast

Now that the Dodgers season is one-third over, we take guesses at some performances for the middle 54 games of the 2022 campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin is on the best run of his career, lowering his ERA to 1.58 through 11 starts, with a 7-0 record, making a bid to make the All-Star Game, which this year is in his home stadium in Los Angeles. That included six innings to beat the White Sox Wednesday in Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A single in the seventh inning on Tuesday night in Chicago was the 1,000th hit of Justin Turner's time with the Dodgers. That was one of the few highlights of the Dodgers' series-opening loss to the White Sox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look back at third baseman Ken McMullen, who started twice on opening day for the Dodgers and in between was involved in a pair of star-studded trades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recapping the four-game weekend series between the Dodgers and Mets, a split for the teams with the two best National League records. Plus, Clayton Kershaw makes a rehab start and is close to a return to the Los Angeles rotation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heading into the weekend with updates on several injured Dodgers. Kevin Pillar fractured his shoulder and will be out a while. Clayton Kershaw makes a minor league rehab start this weekend and could return next week. Max Muncy and Andrew Heaney are headed to Oklahoma City and could be back soon as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking back on the Dodgers' May, plus injury updates. But the most important thing is the MLB-wide glorious distraction that is the Tommy Pham vs. Joc Pederson fantasy football kerfuffle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look back at the incredible May for Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts, which he carried over into June with a home run in his first game of the month. But it wasn't enough to prevent a sweep at the hands of the Pirates at Dodger Stadium for the first time in 22 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers lost two games in a row at Dodger Stadium to the Pirates, something that hadn't happened since 2016. After winning 23 of the last 25 meetings between the two teams, the Dodgers have dropped four of five games in 2022 to lose the season series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Pignatano, a Brooklyn native who debuted with his hometown Dodgers in 1957 and caught the final five innings of the last game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, died at age 92 in Florida. Here's a look back at his career, which included four years with the Dodgers and about 15 years as a coach across baseball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The True Blue LA podcast is branching out, and adding a weekday morning podcast that will run every Monday through Friday, called Leading Off with True Blue LA, hosted by Eric Stephen. We will bring you insights, analysis, interviews, and reaction to Dodgers news on a daily basis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers are currently operating with four starting pitchers and a series of fill-ins while Clayton Kershaw and Andrew Heaney rehab their injuries. What that means for the next few weeks, especially with active rosters reducing to a 13-pitcher limit beginning Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers played their first home doubleheader in 23 years, part of four games in a 45-hour span. It was a weird week for Los Angeles, with a long losing streak followed by a long win streak, with two starting pitchers making major league debuts along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at the Dodgers’ start to the season, which has their offense leading the majors in runs scored per game but still feeling like not everyone is clicking just yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recapping April for the Dodgers, in which scoring was way down across MLB. Also, the Trevor Bauer situation moved closer to a resolution, with the pitcher getting suspended two years by MLB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The stacked Dodgers lineup hasn’t looked so hot through four games, outside of two big innings. We also wonder what’s up with Julio Urías and his decreased velocity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After an extended lockout and a shortened spring training, the 2022 Major League Baseball is finally upon us. We look at where the Dodgers are at heading into their first series of the year at Coors Field in Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers traded outfielder AJ Pollock to the White Sox for closer Craig Kimbrel on the second-to-last day of spring training camp at Camelback Ranch in Arizona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After about two weeks of spring training, we try to guess the 28 players who will be on the Dodgers opening day active roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers added first baseman Freddie Freeman, a five-time All-Star and former National League MVP, to an already potent lineup, signing Freeman to a six-year contract worth a reported $162 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MLB is back in business with a new labor deal and spring training already started. Clayton Kershaw re-signed on a one-year deal, and the Dodgers are reportedly in the mix for Freddie Freeman too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MLB owners, who locked out the players, canceled the first week of regular season games after failing to reach agreement with players by an artificial owner-imposed deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Commissioner Rob Manfred said Major League Baseball missing regular season games would be disastrous, but he and the owners haven’t acted like anyone with any sense of urgency in labor negotiations. Plus, more discouraging views of minor leaguers, and a Trevor Bauer update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the designated hitter likely coming to the National League in the next collective bargaining agreement, we try to guess which players will have the most plate appearances at DH for the Dodgers in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We kick off 2022 by catching up on MLB labor negotiations (hint: you haven’t missed much), look at Brandon Gomes getting promoted to general manager and other Dodgers front office hires, plus a brief look at the international signing period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges was elected to the Hall of Fame on his 35th try. Plus Dodgers minor league news, including the Rule 5 Draft and Triple-A Oklahoma City getting bought. Also, a pair of Dodgers coaches interviewed to be the Mets manager, Danny Duffy had surgery, and Yasiel Puig confidentially settled a pair of sexual assault allegations in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices