PITTSBURGH, PA - 1977: Pitcher Don Sutton of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a Major League Baseball game at Three Rivers Stadium in 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images)
Baseball Hall of Famer and standout Dodgers righty Don Sutton passed away Monday night, according to his son.
Simply because the calendar flipped its final, cursed page away from 2020 does not mean the tragedy of Baseball Hall of Fame losses has ceased.
Just over two weeks into the new year, and following a passage around the sun pockmarked by innumerable tragedies, highlighted in part by the deaths of seven Hall of Fame honorees, the Dodgers have already lost two franchise icons in 2021.