Fifty years to the day after Dodger Stadium hosted its first ever game, the Dodgers try to create a new set of memories with ace Clayton Kershaw on the mound to face the Pirates. In its 50 years, Dodger Stadium has hosted...

• 2,272 regular season wins, and 1.714 losses, a .570 winning percentage
• Eight World Series
• Nine League Championship Series
• Seven Division Series
• Ten no-hitters
• Two perfect games
• One consecutive scoreless inning streak record, and parts of another
• One game in which we learned 4+1 equals much more than five.
• One memorable squeeze
• The Beatles
• The Pope
• The Infield
• The Olympics
• Game Over
• A memorable season by a pitcher turned doctor that saw him pitch 55 games and 101 innings in relief...at home.
• Darryl Strawberry crushing a home run as a high schooler, then crushing our hopes more than a decade later
• Lieutenant Frank Drebin saving the Queen
• One historic final weekend of the season, with the highest of highest and the lowest of lows
• One high fly ball into right field that prompted a few brake lights
• Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale leading a sweep of the mighty Yankees
• One unexpected sweep at the hands of the young but powerful Orioles
• The Three Dog
• One 104-steal MVP season
• A 12-year old future blogger going crazy when Franklin Stubbs capped a seven-run rally in the eighth inning to defeat St. Louis.
• One decision to pitch to Jack Clark
• One 22-year old striking out 18 Braves
• One Bobbleslam
• Two managers for the first 34.5 years of the stadium
• Fernandomania
• Lima Time
• One lead announcer, the greatest who ever lived

...and countless other memories.

Kershaw, who allowed eight runs in his last 10 starts at Dodger Stadium (9-0, 1.69 ERA) with 76 strikeouts in 78 innings, begins year number 51 later this afternoon.