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PHILADELPHIA — Long before the Houston bullpen struck out a third of the batters it faced in the 2022 World Series and held those Phillies to a .123 batting average and .178 slugging…

There were no final-at-bat heroics for the Angels on Sunday. Kyle Tucker hit a solo home run in the ninth, then ended the game on a spectacular, diving catch in a 9-8 victory over an Angels…

NEW YORK —  After announcing that Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ best pitcher for the first half of the season, would miss more time than expected with a shoulder injury, manager Dave…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —  The cortisone injection that he took in late May certainly helped, but Daniel Hudson needed more of a mental boost than a medicinal one to clear the final hurdle in his…

Entering the season, the Dodgers’ dependence on young starters seemed like the biggest potential pitfall facing their pitching staff.In a disheartening 7-5 defeat to the San Francisco…

A 5-4 Dodgers victory over the Chicago White Sox that was made possible by Chris Taylor’s sixth-inning grand slam and Freddie Freeman’s 11th-inning walk-off RBI single Thursday night served…

Clayton Kershaw is nowhere near as dominant as he was from 2011 to ’17, when he went 118-41 with a 2.10 earned-run average in 207 starts and won three National League Cy Young Awards and a…

Dave Roberts sat in the dugout, scanned the Cincinnati Reds’ lineup and tried to devise a late-game plan.At the start of their recent six-game trip, the Dodgers had a three-run lead with…

CINCINNATI —  The Dodgers thought they were past this. That their once-struggling bullpen was finally becoming a strength.A glaring weakness at the beginning of the season, the team’s…

By PATRICK STEVENS - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pavin Smith homered and drove in three runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied…