{"id":94271,"date":"2025-07-26T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94271\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:20:09","slug":"letters-to-sports-time-for-dodgers-to-make-some-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94271\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Sports: Time for Dodgers to make some changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>I have never seen a bullpen for a pro baseball team that walked as many batters <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2025-07-22\/dodgers-twins-tuesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as the current one<\/a> for the Dodgers. A relief pitcher who can\u2019t throw strikes is like a teacher who can\u2019t read. Unless this \u201cGang That Couldn\u2019t Shoot Straight\u201d gets replacements and reinforcements soon they may have trouble making the postseason before it is all over, let alone repeating their championship.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Abajian<br \/>Alta Loma<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Dodgers are not impervious to injury issues. The last time I checked, all teams experience injuries. Hopefully the team will deal with the issues rather than finding excuses as to why they\u2019re no longer \u201cbaseball\u2019s evil empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Kelley<br \/>Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother said she would like to pitch for the Dodgers. I think she will fit right in.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah R. Ishida<br \/>Beverly Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; I have never seen a bullpen for a pro baseball team that walked as many batters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1441,7197,62276,2442,1430,2961,13940,224,2444,5337,2749,62277,34963,62,3007,49333,6620,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-94271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-dodger-victory","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-last-year","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-times","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-mookie-betts","21":"tag-more-money","22":"tag-result","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-team","25":"tag-the-open","26":"tag-time","27":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114919979691088795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}