{"id":369027,"date":"2026-06-21T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:29:25","slug":"letters-to-sports-dodgers-continue-to-cover-their-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369027\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Sports: Dodgers continue to cover their bases"},"content":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll never know, of course, but it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if Yoshinobu Yamamoto was relieved to lose<\/a> the no-hitter in the ninth inning so that Mookie Betts wouldn\u2019t have to bear the stigma of spoiling a perfect game. Yamamoto is a 100% class act.<\/p>\n

Jay James
Pico Rivera<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one MLB club that could possibly overcome all the Dodgers injuries in the first half of the season.<\/p>\n

That team is in fact the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Fred Wallin
Westlake Village<\/p>\n

I thought Bill Shaikin\u2019s column on the Dodgers ruining baseball<\/a> was good and provocative. For me, I do not believe the Dodgers are ruining baseball, but sports are much more fun and compelling to watch when they are competitive and each game means more.<\/p>\n

It is easier to sustain competitiveness when one team or a few teams do not have a huge financial edge over other teams. I think the NFL, NBA, and NHL have been better at dealing with this issue than baseball.<\/p>\n

Bill Francis
Pasadena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> We\u2019ll never know, of course, but it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if Yoshinobu Yamamoto was relieved to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2135,149625,149626,149628,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,66274,149627,7496,427,48369,87055,1816,11320,126223],"class_list":["post-369027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers-injury","tag-excellent-lakers","tag-ken-curry","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-perfect-game","tag-soccer-country","tag-sport","tag-team","tag-texas-tech","tag-u-s-coast","tag-university","tag-usc-football","tag-world-cup-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}