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Will Smith has been behind the plate for plenty of Walker Buehler’s starts dating back to their minor league days. It doesn’t take the Dodgers catcher long to know if Buehler’s got the good stuff. Within a few pitches on Saturday night, Smith was sold: This was going to be fun. “I’m glad he’s on our side,” Smith said....

Japanese two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani will compete in the All-Star Home Run Derby at Denver’s Coors Field on July 12. The Los Angeles Angels star will be the first Japanese-born player in the derby, held the night before the All-Star Game. “I always wanted to see a Japanese player participate in the derby and it happens to be me, so…

The Diamondbacks stumbled to their franchise-record 15th straight loss, with Steven Souza Jr. hitting a go-ahead home run in his return to Arizona following a horrific knee injury and helping the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-0 victory Friday night. Arizona broke the team mark of 14 straight losses from July 9-25, 2004, and lost for the 38th time in…

Zack Wheeler outpitched Clayton Kershaw, and Rhys Hoskins homered early to end an 0-for-33 slump as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 on Wednesday night to avoid a three-game sweep. Hoskins connected in the first inning, J.T. Realmuto added an RBI double in the third and the Phillies rebounded from consecutive defeats to the Dodgers that...

The injury bug bites all teams from time-to-time, but the Los Angeles Dodgers seem to always be the main course.  The reigning World Series champions had a total of 10 players on the injured list during the shortened 60-game season in 2020. In total, those 10 players spent a combined 248 days on the injured list. Over 60 games into…

The league announced Tuesday that players will be routinely checked for foreign substances starting June 21

When Will Smith decided to praise every Dodgers reliever who came through against the Phillies, the catcher had a lengthy list to remember. “DP (David Price) coming in, Joe (Kelly), Blake (Treinen), Victor (González), and Kenley (Jansen) closing it out, and Jimmy (Nelson),” Smith said. “They were all really good. They pounded the zone, put guys away, pitched out...

Mookie Betts knows he’s struggling. He still homered and scored three runs. The Dodgers’ bullpen let six straight Rangers reach base and allowed three runs in the ninth. Kenley Jansen still got three gritty outs with the bases loaded to end it. Manager Dave Roberts was thoroughly unhappy with his team’s performance. Los Angeles still moved within one game...

Jonah Heim and Nate Lowe had two-run homers among their three hits apiece, and the Texas Rangers emphatically snapped their 16-game road losing streak with a 12-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night. Jason Martin hit his first major league homer and Willie Calhoun had an RBI triple for the Rangers, who hadn’t won away from...

The injury bug bites all teams from time-to-time, but the Los Angeles Dodgers seem to always be the main course.  The reigning World Series champions had a total of 10 players on the injured list during the shortened 60-game season in 2020. In total, those 10 players spent a combined 248 days on the injured list. Over 60 games into…

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts got everything he had hoped for. Clayton Kershaw bounced back from two bad outings with six sharp innings Friday night, and Gavin Lux drove in four runs and hit one of five homers as Los Angeles routed the Texas Rangers 12-1. But Roberts’ joy after the win was tempered due to possible injuries to Max Muncy…

Thousands of Angelenos have been vaccinated at Dodger Stadium this year, but none have been able to say they got vaccinated while inside the stadium during a Dodgers home game. Now you can. The Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Thursday ahead of their six-game homestand against the Texas Ranger and Philadelphia Phillies that they will open a mobile vaccination clinic…

For kids in the Dominican Republic, baseball is more than a game. Baseball is hope. The hope to be the next Fernando Tatis Jr. or Juan Soto or Pedro Martinez. The hope to support themselves and their families. But, hope can be a double-edged sword. Major League teams sign more players from the Dominican than any country outside the United…

Mookie Betts hit the 25th leadoff home run of his big league career and the Los Angeles Dodgers kept up their dominance of the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 6-3 win on Thursday. Betts took the third pitch he saw from Mitch Keller (3-7) and sent it into the bullpen beyond the centerfield fence for his sixth homer this season. Cody…

Justin Turner hit two home runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers got 7 1/3 scoreless innings from their bullpen in a rain-delayed 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Turner belted a 409-foot drive to the visitors’ bullpen in center field in the first inning to open the scoring. Then he broke a 1-all tie in the third…

The class of 2020, including Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker, will be inducted on Sept. 8 in an outdoor ceremony with a limited crowd.

Ke’Bryan Hayes hastily missed first base and was called out after hitting a first-inning homer, sending Walker Buehler on his way to seven scoreless innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 Tuesday night. The Pirates star rookie stung an opposite-field line drive in the first inning against Buehler that narrowly cleared the right-field wall, just...

Max Fried hopes a series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers reminds the Atlanta Braves they can still be a playoff team. Back-to-back wins over Clayton Kershaw and Trevor Bauer may help make that point. Fried outpitched Bauer, and the Braves beat Los Angeles 4-2 on Sunday to take two of three in the first meeting of the teams since…

It’s been a frustrating season for the Atlanta Braves, who haven’t been above .500 all season and have been struggling to string together some consistency. The Braves put it all together Saturday night against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, matching timely hitting with a strong outing from their starting pitcher and an improved performance from the...