one patch, two patch, red patch, red patch!

you know i love me some dodger blue, but i think that the red number patch on the front of the jerseys is what really makes the dodger unis stand out.  as such, i am always on the lookout for cards featuring some red patch goodness.

andre ethier bring the red patch to this 2013 topps museum collection card

while matt kemp, steve garvey, and sandy koufax bring relics of their own. this is one of the rare steve garvey relic cards that is in my dodger collection. i already had one of the gold parallel versions (#/25) in my garvey collection, but red patch! so i bought another one.

next up it's clayton kershaw and hanley ramirez with red patch goodness on this 2015 topps museum collection card

adrian gonzalez has a bit of blue patch, and yasiel puig has just plain white jersey going on.

here's a 2012 playoff prime cuts biography card of don sutton featuring a piece of his retired number 20

and a 2017 panini national vip prizm corey seager card with a piece of corey's number 5

this card is an example of panini trying to alter history by coloring the number on the front of dodger jerseys blue. they are not blue, but rather a glorious red (except on days when they are pink or baby blue or army green or whatever other color mlb dictates in order to sell more stuff).

rickey henderson wasn't a dodger  for long, but he did wear the uniform long enough for some relic cards to be made

that's a piece of his number 25 (24 was retired by the dodgers for walt alston) on a 2004 playoff prime cuts material card.

matt kemp is back with a small piece of red patch on this solo quad relic piece from 2013 topps museum collection

and here is a 2013 topps tribute card of kemp with a larger red patch

prime patch indeed!

how about some number 22 from the jersey fronts? ok, here's a 2017 panini national treasures clayton kershaw card

so formal with the full name, but again with the false blue number in the image.

another kershaw - this one from 2017 panini donruss

and another from 2017 topps tribute

the red patches are usually on the low-numbered parallels as those kershaw cards demonstrate.

numbers don't get any lower than 1, as in 1/1, as in this 2008 topps sterling steve garvey card

red patch!