{"id":565070,"date":"2026-05-02T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/565070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:12:28","slug":"letters-the-ups-downs-and-in-betweens-of-dodgers-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/565070\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: The ups, downs and in-betweens of Dodgers baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Was it more fun to watch the Dodger offense <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-04-25\/dodgers-rediscover-their-offense-in-blowout-win-over-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return to form<\/a> or to watch spoiled kid Pete Crow-Armstrong strike out four times on Saturday?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly in the long run, Dodger success is much more important to this engaged fan than the serial failure of a young player still playing like a rookie after two years. Can you just imagine the screaming and cursing those Cubs fans watching on TV over PCA\u2019s performance? I hope Pete appreciates that attention.<\/p>\n<p>David Gene Echt<br \/>Torrance<\/p>\n<p>Please explain to Dave Roberts that you don\u2019t try a sacrifice bunt when you know the Marlins then automatically walk Shohei Ohtani. Nonsensical.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Wallin<br \/>Westlake Village<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, it\u2019s that time of the baseball season, when the L.A. faithful panic over early losses, while other fanbases talk trash and pile on \u2014 despite knowing they\u2019ll once again be playing late into October. Call it the Dodger Blue-print.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Ross<br \/>Carmel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; Was it more fun to watch the Dodger offense return to form or to watch spoiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[233,63509,4128,146,63510,5,11109,17091,63508,186,1760,240,5303,63511,54636,793,145,815,5304,5302,4,208,10183,130,5088],"class_list":["post-565070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-dodgers-baseball","tag-down","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-ferdinand","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-fan","tag-horse","tag-in-between","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-late-great-bill-shoemaker","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-nhl","tag-sport","tag-stanley-cup-championship","tag-team","tag-up"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116505394813461810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}