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HOUSTON  —  No sooner had the players finished dancing than the fans started singing. The game still had three innings to go, and in fact this was the middle of an inning, but no matter.The…

HOUSTON —  This baseball season started late and ended later. We did not expect the Lakers to be done before the World Series was done, but here we are.This fall marked the debut of…

PHILADELPHIA —  It was the Nightmare on Katella Avenue, and not just for one night. For the better part of a decade, the Angels and their fans sweated and dreaded the fear that Mike Trout…

HOUSTON —  This was the year baseball finally told the pitchers to throw away their bats for good. The designated hitter, beloved by some and reviled by others, would be the law of the land…

HOUSTON —  This is not just about the Dodgers. David Robertson never pitched for the Dodgers.He pitched for the New York Yankees in 2017, the year the Houston Astros cheated. The Yankees…

Ten years ago, Joe Davis was the voice of the Montgomery Biscuits. Can he recall the team colors?“Of course,” he said. “Butter and blue.”Life was good. He was 24, and he was getting paid to…

Dodger Stadium sat quiet and still Sunday. The gift shop was open, but the batter’s box was closed.On this day, there would be no decisive Game 5 of the division series. The Dodgers had…

SAN DIEGO —  They blew up a piece of Joe Musgrove’s childhood a couple of years ago. Qualcomm Stadium was the old home of the hometown team in a town that lives to despise the Dodgers.In…

The question was the same on the first day of the regular season as it was after Game 2 of the National League Division Series: What are the Dodgers going to do about Cody Bellinger?Now that…

Not even half an hour had passed since the final out, and the Dodgers’ clubhouse staff had retrieved the game ball, enclosed it in a square plastic case, attached a label to the foundation…