"BOYS in BLUE" drop by the BRONX Zoo as we go DODGERS and PINSTRIPES for a Three Game Set ...L.A. trying to get out of the NL West Basement...YANKS trying to stay on pace with O's and CARMINES...A CUP of JOE in the SHOW Report #LADbiz #NYYbiz

On paper you could have circled this mid-June Match Up down as the battle of First Place Teams and that is not reality as we go to press. The Dodgers have been struggling due to a myriad of Injuries to Key Cogs and no consistency. The Yankees were in first place some ten days ago until they went on a West Coast Trip where they get swept by the A's and lose two of three to the Halos. Now both Teams face each other trying to put a few together in the right column.

DODGERS @ Bronx BOMBERS Three Game Set Preview

June 18, 2013 7:05pm ET
LAD Ryu (5-2) vs NYY Hughes (3-5)

June 19, 2013 7:05pm ET
LAD TBD vs NYY Kuroda (6-5)

June 20, 2013 7:05pm ET
LAD TBD vs NYY TBD

Both teams inconsistency and injuries show in the pitching match ups as both teams do not know who will be on the bump for them moving along after game 1. The Players to watch in the 3-Game Set...

DODGERS

RF Yasiel Puig .479 4 HR 10 RBI (13 Gms)
1B A. Gonzalez "A-Gon" .303 8 HR 44 RBI

YANKEES

2B Robbie Cano .278 16 HR 42 RBI
DH Travis Hafner .230 11 HR 32 RBI

Both Teams at time shave struggled at the Dish as the Dodgers Phenom and Cuban Sensation Yasiel Puig makes his Gotham City Day view. The Yankees are being carried by 2013 World Baseball Classic MVP and All-Star 2B Robinson Cano.

Back in the 1950s it would have been Ebbett's Field (Brooklyn Dodgers), Polo Grounds (NY Baseball Giants) , Yankee Stadium (NY Yankees), and a Yankee Stadium Short Porch full  of Baseball Hall of Famers...