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CHICAGO — James Outman is good at making first impressions.

The Angels star’s separation from Ruth’s legend is growing, but he wants something he has yet to experience in the majors: winning.

A short-handed roster will shift the former MVP outfielder to a new spot.

Pitcher wins might be a discounted stat in modern baseball culture, an old-school relic considered too unrepresentative for the sport's modern analytical era.

LOS ANGELES — Maybe all the subtractions are beginning to add up.

Sometimes you want to go … where you know everybody’s name.

SAN FRANCISCO — Turns out there’s a simple solution to a streaky, strikeout-prone offense: sensational pitching. That is the formula, at least, that worked for the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Max Muncy was struggling last season, out of whack at the plate because of a lingering elbow injury that contributed to woeful inconsistency, the Dodgers’ slugger added a back step to his hitting mechanics.

LOS ANGELES — On the surface, his personality is about as colorful as his name.

The Dodgers traded their feast-or-famine offense for a Happy Medium Meal on Tuesday night, combining a solid-but-not-spectacular offense with some stout pitching from Julio Urías for a 5-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies before a sellout crowd of 52,290 in Chavez Ravine.

LOS ANGELES — It took four spring training starts for Noah Syndergaard to come to grips with the fact that, despite his December proclamation that there is “no excuse as to why I can’t get back to 100 mph,” his once-vaunted fastball is not going to approach triple digits like…