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SAN FRANCISCO – Breathe. In. Out. The Dodgers’ 17-game out-of-body experience finally came to an end Tuesday night – they hope – with a white-knuckler of a 5-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants. The win ended an 11-game losing streak, the longest since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and was only their second in the past 18 games (both started by Clayton Kershaw). With it, the Dodg...

SAN FRANCISO — Good moing. The Dodgers did not lose a game Monday. But their demons pursued them into the early-moing hours. It took until 2:11 Tuesday moing but the Dodgers’ losing streak reached 11 (the longest in Los Angeles history) thanks to an 8-6 loss to the San Francisco Giants that took more than six hours to complete. The forces of nature helped the Dodgers avoid their fate for awh...

SAN FRANCISCO >> For a team that could still win 100 games, the Dodgers sure seem to have a lot of questions to answer about their postseason roster. “We have a lot of good players we’re still evaluating,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said before Monday’s game. “We have a lot of guys to work with. When you have the lead we had, you can prioritize health and trying to keep guys sharp while tr...

SAN FRANCISCO >> After losing 10 games in a row and 15 of their past 16, the Dodgers arrived at AT&T Park on Monday afteoon willing to go to extremes if that’s what it took to tu things around. They would have to. The dark clouds that have followed them the past two weeks dropped rain on AT&T Park, two separate delays – one before the game even started and another after just one ...

LOS ANGELES >>xa0At a Catholic Mass inside Dodger Stadium on Sunday moing, a priest attempted to perform an exorcism on the ballpark. Friday, pitcher Yu Darvish sprinkled salt in the Dodgers’ dugout, a Japanese custom intended to ward off evil spirits. It’s come to this. The Dodgers’ 8-1 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday was their 10th straight. Only a home run by Alex Verdugo in the ni...

LOS ANGELES >> Dodgers infielder Rob Segedin had no more control over the date his Predictive Analytics project was due than the day he would retu to the major leagues, but this was the life he chose. As luck would have it, Segedin leaed the Dodgers were bringing him up from Triple-A the day before the project was due. That made Aug. 17 an interesting day in the life of baseball’s most d...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers had a 100 percent chance of qualifying for the postseason on Aug. 25, according to the website FanGraphs.com. Their odds are still 100 percent today. On paper, the last two weeks have changed nothing. Yet to anyone scrutinizing the Dodgers with their hearts, everything has changed. They began the season 91-36. They are 1-13 since. They are a team that continues to ...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers found a new way to lose Tuesday. For a team that has lost 10 of its past 11 games, it was no small feat. In the 10th inning of a tie game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Dodgers pitcher Pedro Baez walked the first two batters he faced. Both scored when third baseman Justin Tuer threw to the plate for a likely out, only to watch his throw carom off the glove of ...

PHOENIX >> The Dodgers were swept for the first time this season, losing 8-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afteoon at Chase Field. The sweep was the first of the Dodgers since they lost the last three games of the 2016 regular season to the San Francisco Giants. The loss also extended the Dodgers’ losing streak to five games, their longest since a six-game skid April 25-30, 2016....

PHOENIX >> You might be feeling things you haven’t felt in a long time. This is natural. But do not panic. Left-hander Rich Hill followed up his near-perfect game with a thoroughly imperfect effort, allowing five runs in the first inningxa0Tuesdayxa0night. The Dodgers never fully recovered and lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6. The loss was the Dodgers’ third in a row, the first time they ha...

LOS ANGELES >> The Santa Ana Valley High School football team was about to play its second game of the season. It could have been any Saturday in September – Curtis Granderson wasn’t sure the year – but this game happened to be on Sept. 10, 2011. Granderson was in town because his New York Yankees were playing the Angels. Santa Ana Valley held a freshman pep rally that Friday, Sept. 9. The Y...

PITTSBURGH >> If Hyun-Jin Ryu keeps winning immunity challenges, he might not have to leave the island after all. While other Dodgers starters pass the time on the DL or search for their mechanics, Ryu has become the Dodgers’ most consistent starter. He held the Pittsburgh Pirates to one run on four hits in six innings of a 5-2 victory Thursday, the eighth time in his past nine starts Ryu ha...

PITTSBURGH >> Curtis Granderson’s grand slam in the seventh inning gave the Dodgers a lead they squandered when the Pittsburgh Pirates scored twice in the eighth inning to tie the game. But Yasiel Puig’s solo home run leading off the 12th retrieved a 6-5 victory for the Dodgers on Monday night. The win was only the second in the Dodgers’ past 10 games and fourth in their past 14 at PNC Park. The Dodgers have now won seven of their past eight, 22 of their past 26 and 53 of 63 since June 7. ...

PITTSBURGH >> Clayton Kershaw should be happy. His back injury was less serious than might have been feared when he left his July 23 start. He has retued to health relatively quickly. And his team is so far out front that it can afford to take it slowly with him, giving him a long runway to retu to the rotation with bullets saved for October. Oh, yeah — that last part doesn’t seem to sit well with the Dodgers ace. “Health-wise, I could have pitched in the big leagues 10 days ago. But that’...

DETROIT >> The Dodgers might want to stock up on bubble wrap. Hyun-Jin Ryu and three relievers combined on a four-hit shutout of the Detroit Tigers on Saturday afteoon as the Dodgers won 3-0 and moved another day closer to playing games that really matter again. More important than their 21st victory in the past 24 games, 26th in 31 since the All-Star break, 52nd in 61 games since June 7 and – inhale – 87th of the season, they managed to peel another day off the calendar without suffering ...

The Dodgers weren’t done when they acquired Yu Darvish and relievers Tony Watson and Tony Cingrani in the final hour before the non-waiver trade deadline. They acquired veteran outfielder Curtis Granderson from the New York Mets in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations Friday. The Dodgers also received cash considerations to offset the approximately $3.8 million Granderson is owed in the final year of a four-year, $60 million contract he signed with the Mets. “A little b...

DETROIT >> Two months of rest and physical therapy allowed Adrian Gonzalez to roll back the odometer on his back. His role, however, is very much a part of the present. “I feel great,” Gonzalez said after being activated from the 60-day disabled list on Friday. “Last year was when the whole issue started with the back. Right now, I feel like I’m before that, before it all started. So hopefully this is the end of the back issue. You never know. But as far as right now, I’ve played all these...

DODGERS at TIGERS When: Saturday, 1:05 p.m. Where: Comerica Park TV: SportsNet LA THE PITCHERS DODGERS LHP HYUN-JIN RYU (4-6, 3.63) Vs. Tigers: 0-1, 27.00 At Comerica Park: 0-1, 27.00 Hates to face: Nick Castellanos, 2 for 2, 2B Loves to face: None TIGERS LHP MATT BOYD (5-6, 5.68) Vs. Dodgers: First game At Comerica Park: 6-6, 4.60 Advertisement ...

LOS ANGELES >> He had just caught another comeback victory and hit another home run, Yasmani Grandal now standing in the Dodgers clubhouse and being asked to discuss his team’s astonishing and utter awesomeness. Yet, instead of effervescing with the sort of delight that must come from playing on a club not only chasing but routinely tackling history, Grandal’s rather somber tone suggested he was recounting the passing of a childhood pet. One that was fluffy and lovable and house broken fro...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers’ magic number is so low, they can clinch a playoff berth before the calendar tus to September. They are 50 games over .500 for the first time since 1953. Still, the schedule insists that the regular season lasts another six weeks. For Manager Dave Roberts, that means finding new ways to challenge his players. He batted Yasiel Puig sixth on Tuesday in a 6-1 win over Chicago White Sox, only the second time Puig has batted higher than eighth in the lineup since May....