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The Dodgers bring the best run differential and the lowest staff ERA in baseball into the playoffs. Eric Stephen of True Blue LA thinks it’ll be enough to knock off the Cardinals.

Wow. Bill Plaschke gets paid for writing sentences like this: Sick of staring at it, the Dodgers became it, pouring themselves across Chavez Ravine on Saturday night like the champagne that has haunted them. Clayton Kershaw popped. Casey Blake bubbled. Mark Loretta sprayed. An entire dugout of bouncing blue poured into the cool night awash […]

Sorry, can’t answer that question until September 22nd: Tom Lasorda will soon take his place alongside other Los Angeles Dodgers stars in the Smithsonian Institution. The Hall of Fame manager will have his portrait hung in the museum’s National Portrait Gallery. The unveiling is set for Sept. 22, Lasorda’s 82nd birthday. The life-sized portrait, measuring […]

Ned Colletti wants to come back to L.A. next year: A day removed from acquiring the final pieces of the team the Dodgers could field in October, General Manager Ned Colletti briefly turned his attention to free agency on Tuesday. His own. The decision of whether Colletti will remain with the club is half Colletti’s, […]

Book review: Durocher tells it as he thought it was

The relocation of Raul Ibanez to Philadelphia seemed to launch him into a completely new level of play while Andre Ethier also took off in Los Angeles this year.

The team wrecks that people chose to see, and the quality teams they overlooked.

You may not care about Haeger or the Dodgers, but you should care that the Law of Conservation of Knuckleballers has once again been vindicated: Jeff Weaver will start for the Dodgers on Wednesday in place of Chad Billingsley, and Charlie Haeger will replace Eric Stults on the active roster to help back Weaver up, […]

Jermaine Jackson got himself a souvenir yesterday: In the bottom of the second inning, Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal lifted a foul ball toward the area where Jackson was sitting, and Jackson didn’t hesitate. Jermaine, a right-hander wearing a Manny Ramirez No. 99 jersey, made a nifty backhanded grab and celebrated the snatching of the souvenir. […]

Bob Watson is investigating the whole Mota-Fielder incident. Ken Macha: “[Fielder’s] been hit a lot. . . . He doesn’t like when somebody does it on purpose. I don’t blame him. . . . This type of mentality puts everybody in jeopardy. Giving a guy a $500 fine and two-game suspension isn’t enough.” Well, yeah, […]