Perhaps, then, this is a good time to pause and summon the memories of this glorious Bulldog thing, this stretch of madness that set an unbreakable record and captured the team’s last full-season title. When Zack Greinke left the Dodgers on Thursday in the middle of his potentially historic scoreless-inning streak to be with wife Emily for the birth of their first child, you’ll never guess who smiled at the memories. He literally left it all on the field, taxing his shoulder and eventually shortening his career during a stretch worthy of another nickname.ĭodgers Orel Hershiser’s streak was a different ballgame

The honor is one given to those Dodger greats who haven’t been voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame, a place Hershiser might have inhabited if he did not completely sacrifice his body for the sake of a championship in 1988.

“I’ve got bulldog paperweights, bulldog bobbleheads, bulldog statues, bulldog socks, bulldog underwear.”Ĭome Saturday at Dodger Stadium, he will now also have a Bulldog plaque, as he will be inducted into the Legends of Dodger Baseball. “That’s certainly the default gift,” Hershiser said this week with a laugh. Orel Hershiser may age, and his accomplishments may fade, but what happened 35 years ago has cemented the most unlikely of nicknames. Young fans look at his spindly frame sitting across from Joe Davis and are like, “He did what?” He’s been a Dodger broadcaster almost as long as he was a Dodger pitcher. He’ll be 65 soon, his hair is graying, he hasn’t officially pitched a baseball for nearly a quarter of a century.

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