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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 to preserve a 9-8 victory over…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A shaky Sunday night game in which the Dodgers’ top three relievers gave up all four runs did not totally obscure the recent good deeds of their beleaguered bullpen, but it was hard to see…