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Amid October pitching questions, Dodgers find ‘right lanes’ in win over Cardinals

LOS ANGELES — It was a straightforward game conducted with a straightforward pitching plan.

Los Angeles Times

Mookie Betts’ pinch-hit, walk-off single lifts Dodgers past Dbacks

LOS ANGELES — Four hours before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 Thursday on a walk-off hit by Mookie Betts, the eyes of everyone in blue were riveted on the Dodger Stadium pitcher’s mound.

Los Angeles Times

Flat Dodgers fumble their way to a doubleheader split with the Diamondbacks

The Dodgers lurched through a doubleheader Tuesday of two oddly similar games with starkly different outcomes.

Los Angeles Times

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Dodgers clinch 1st-round bye with win over Diamondbacks

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.

Los Angeles Times

On wet, windy day at Oracle Park, SF Giants wrap equally dreary season series with 15th loss to Dodgers

SAN FRANCISCO — The rain came, the Giants rallied, but nothing could delay the inevitable.

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Dodgers clinch NL West for 9th time in 10 seasons in win over Diamondbacks

Last year, they chased the San Francisco Giants in vain until the final day, falling a game short of a division title and victim to an arduous postseason path as a lower-seeded wild card team.

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers pounce on Snell for first time, trounce Padres again

SAN DIEGO — It happened again to Blake Snell, and it happened again to the Padres.

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Radio host Doug Gottlieb admits ‘no credible basis’ for claims about Freddie Freeman contract talks

Always double-check your sources, kids.

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Dodgers rally for four runs in eighth inning to beat the Giants

LOS ANGELES – It was a rake n’ bake series.

The Orange County Register

Sports Radio Host Issues Retraction About Freddie Freeman, Agent

Doug Gottlieb claimed that the first baseman wasn’t informed of the Braves’ final offer before leaving for the Dodgers.

Sports Illustrated

Pablo Lopez turning corner, but Marlins do not in another extra-inning loss to Dodgers

MIAMI — After struggling to find consistency for over two months, Pablo Lopez may finally be turning the corner.

Miami Herald

For Dodgers’ Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman, playing every day is part of the deal

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman, working stiff? The moniker would hardly seem to apply to a guy who makes $27 million a year, flies charter, stays in five-star hotels and receives $100 per diem on the road while playing baseball for a living.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Plaschke: Chasing record wins, red-hot Dodgers need to play it cool

LOS ANGELES — It feels weird issuing this plea to a baseball team bullying its way toward historic ground, but, sorry, somebody has to say it.

Los Angeles Times

Mark Bradley: Can the Braves find room for both Ozzie Albies and Vaughn Grissom?

The Braves have a 25-year-old second baseman who’s a two-time All-Star and who’s under a not-lavish contract through 2027. They have an even younger second baseman who, through 14 big-league games, has an OPS of 1.123 and a batting average of .420. The former is Ozzie Albies, who’s rehabbing a…

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Theft on the rise: How the Dodgers became baseball's improbable men of steal

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers' preferred method of offense is to bludgeon opponents with a loaded lineup of power hitters proficient at working counts, hunting mistakes and giving themselves self-congratulatory taps on their helmets as they circle the bases.

The Orange County Register

Trayce Thompson drives in 4 runs as Dodgers pound Brewers

LOS ANGELES — Unless that Cash Considerations fella turns into an All-Star, this is going to go down as one very lopsided trade.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernández: Dodgers' destruction of Sandy Alcantara isn't a fluke. This team can hit good pitching.

This game that didn't count for much, this midsummer game against another overmatched and underfunded opponent, was also a statement game.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Freddie Freeman donates half million dollars to his HS baseball team

Dodgers star Freddie Freeman gave back to his roots, donating $500,000 to El Moderna's baseball team to help build a new clubhouse.

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Dustin May thrives in his return from Tommy John surgery as Dodgers blank Marlins

LOS ANGELES — Tommy John surgery is so common, with hundreds of pitchers from high school to the big leagues undergoing the elbow ligament replacement procedure every year, and its success rate (80% to 90%) so high that it almost seems routine.

Los Angeles Times

With no one home, Mookie Betts scores go-ahead run in Dodgers’ win over Marlins

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers cleanup batter Will Smith hit an eighth-inning grounder to the left of Miami third baseman Jon Berti with runners on first and third and one out in a tie game Friday night.

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Mark Bradley: The Braves are really, really good. Get used to it.

Ten days ago, the Braves left New York having lost four of five to the Mets, whose lead in the National League East had grown to 6.5 games. The Braves had lost three in a row for the first time in 2022. They weren’t quite reeling, but they’d suffered a…

Los Angeles Times

Tony Gonsolin flirts with perfection as Dodgers turn winning streak up

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Put this guy in pictures. Kansas City Royals reliever Josh Staumont entered a pristine game in the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers promptly lit him up with four hits and a walk en route to an 8-3 victory Friday night.

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Royals were beating bases-loaded, nobody-out odds, until Dodgers heated up for victory

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the second time in two games, the Royals escaped ultimate baseball danger. They didn’t allow a run after the opponent loaded the bases with no outs.

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Mark Bradley: Jason Heyward’s career takes another abrupt turn

It was 2010. Jason Heyward was baseball’s No. 1 prospect. In spring training, he launched baseballs that pelted cars parked behind the outfield fence at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. He was from McDonough. He was big, strong and fast. He was wise beyond his tender years. Crusty folks who’d…

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernández: Dodgers' dominance means only one thing — they must win the World Series

By now, the years are starting to blend together, the decade-long renaissance making one season indistinguishable from the last. October baseball is now taken for granted in this city.

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