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LOS ANGELES >> Some 300 reporters and photographers stood in the credential line at Staples Center before Tuesday’s first stop of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor media tour. Another 200 were tued down for credentials, an event spokesman said. “I’ve never been a part of anything like ...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers signed Julio Urías when he was merely a boy, a 16-year-old throwing faster than some major league pitchers. They protected his golden left arm like no other, removing him from at least one no-hitter every year in order to limit the inherent harm of throwing a basebal...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in LA to face the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series. The winner of the best-of-seven series will move on to the World Series. • Related: Dodgers going against their history and the Cubs’ in NLCS If you want an insiders view of games three, four and five, follow us on Snapchat. The games won’t start until 5:08 each night but we’ll be snapping from batting practice to the post-game locker room interviews. Add us by opening the Snapchat app and...

SAN DIEGO >> When is an innings limit not an innings limit? As Dodgers coaches and executives contemplate how much more rookie pitcher Julio Urias can — and should — give them this year, it’s worth flashing back to April 11. Urias made his first regular season start that day for Triple-A Oklahoma City in Memphis, Tennessee. Matt Herges, the Oklahoma City pitching coach, watched and waited as Urias threw one scoreless inning after another. Urias’ pitch count reached 73 after five innings wh...

DENVER >> It’s no surprise that the Dodgers will give the ball to rookie left-hander Julio Urias for Friday’s start against the San Diego Padres. The 20-year-old left-hander is 5-2 with a 3.71 eaed-run average in 14 games (12 starts) with the Dodgers. His last four outings, all victories, have seen Urias allow two eaed runs in 19 2/3 innings, good for a 0.92 ERA. “The way he’s throwing the baseball right now,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “this is the best thing for the Dodgers and f...

CINCINNATI >> While most of the Dodgers’ starting pitchers are operating on a performance-induced innings limit, Julio Urias pitched like he doesn’t need one. The freslhly-20-year-old Julio Urias tued in the best start of his barely-started big-league career Sunday afteoon, holding the Cincinnati Reds scoreless through six innings and helping the Dodgers snap a three-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory. “It was huge. It was huge being able to have him out there for more than five innings...

ANAHEIM >> The glimmer of hope Garrett Richards once had continues to get brighter. Garrett Richards got the go-ahead to increase his workouts, perhaps throwing a baseball in a couple of weeks, as he continues to try to dodge Tommy John surgery that would have him out until 2018. On a day the Angels announced that Nick Tropeano would, as expected, be undergoing the surgery, Richards is still seeing positive enough results from stem-cell therapy to hold off on the procedure. “Stem cells are...

ST. LOUIS >> Julio Urias’ latest big-league cameo was a short one. The 19-year-old left-hander was sent back to Triple-A Oklahoma City on Friday after pitching four innings for the Dodgers in Thursday’s win over the Washington Nationals. Urias will get a few days off and then pitch out of the bullpen for OKC, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. That was the plan when the Dodgers sent Urias back to Triple-A following his July 4 start. But he made just one relief appearance before being recal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Now what? For the third time this season, the Dodgers tued to 19-year-old left-hander Julio Urias to fill a short-term need in their starting rotation. Urias went four innings in Thursday’s 6-3 victory over the Washington Nationals after left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu went on the DL with elbow tendinitis. Whatever plan the Dodgers had for their precocious pitching prospect must have been written in pencil, erased and rewritten again. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he has b...

Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inteational and the Los Angeles Herald-Express before joining SI, Jares covered more than 20 sports, specializing in tennis and college basketball. He authored nine sports-related books during his career, topped off ...

LOS ANGELES >> Like leaving the last Oreo in the sleeve, this is not going to be easy. But the Dodgers remain committed to keeping a goveor on Julio Urias’ workload this season, a vow of abstinence that has become more difficult to stand by with each of his five big-league starts. Urias keeps getting better, a trend that led to five scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five innings and 85 pitches this time,...

LOS ANGELES >> Like leaving the last Oreo in the sleeve, this is not going to be easy. But the Dodgers remain committed to keeping a goveor on Julio Urias’ workload this season, a vow of abstinence that has become more difficult to stand by with each of his five big-league starts. Urias keeps getting better, a trend that led to five scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five innings and 85 pitches this time,...

In a bad season for Dodgers medical updates, June has been a bad month. But one bit of good news emerged Thursday: pitcher Alex Wood, who was originally told not to throw for four weeks because of inflammation in his left elbow, will begin a throwing program next week, a few days earlier than planned. “We’re on pace to hit all my marks,” he said. Wood said he had some fluid drained from the elbow and received a cortisone shot. Since then, his inflammation subsided enough that the Dodgers’ traini...

SAN FRANCISCO >> The Dodgers have handed Julio Urias his leaer’s permit. They just didn’t put any gas in the tank. Urias pitched into the sixth inning for the first time in his four big-league starts Sunday night and showed the kind of poise and talent that prompted the Dodgers to promote him to the majors at age 19. The precocious left-hander made just one mistake and it didn’t come until his 86th pitch of the game. But Brandon Belt crushed that 85-mph slider left over the heart of the pl...

The Dodgers are certainly not making it easy for Julio Urias to break into the major leagues. They asked the 19-year-old prospect to make his major-league debut in New York against the Mets then follow that up with a start against the best team in baseball, the Chicago Cubs, at Wrigley Field. Now after one start at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers will shuffle their rotation in order to start Urias in San Francisco on Sunday night against the NL West-leading Giants — oh, and the game will be on natio...

The Dodgers are certainly not making it easy for Julio Urias to break into the major leagues. They asked the 19-year-old prospect to make his major-league debut in New York against the Mets then follow that up with a start against the best team in baseball, the Chicago Cubs, at Wrigley Field. Now after one start at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers will shuffle their rotation in order to start Urias in San Francisco Sunday night against the NL West-leading Giants — oh, and the game will be on national...

The Dodgers are certainly not making it easy for Julio Urias to break into the major leagues. They asked the 19-year-old prospect to make his major-league debut in New York against the Mets then follow that up with a start against the best team in baseball, the Chicago Cubs, at Wrigley Field. Now after one start at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers will shuffle their rotation in order to start Urias in San Francisco Sunday night against the NL West-leading Giants — oh, and the game will be on national...

Tuesday night featured a hard-fought 4-3 win by the Dodgers over the Colorado Rockies at Chavez Ravine. Among the highlights: • Rookie pitcher Julio Urias making his Dodger Stadium debut and Trayce Thompson hitting a winning homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, • Outfielder Joc Pederson talking about a childhood game helping jumpstart his swing. • Thompson and Rockies star third baseman Nolan Arenado discuss growing up together and how they’re just like brothers. • Video interviews with Thom...

The future of the Dodgers organization will walk through the metaphorical doors of 1000 Vin Scully Ave. on Thursday, the first day of the amateur draft. The present offers a mostly blank expression; the Dodgers have trailed the rival San Francisco Giants in the standings since May 15, never climbing more than four games above .500 in the meantime. Somewhere in between lies Julio Urias, who eaed himself a fourth major league start Tuesday night. Urias held the Colorado Rockies to three hits and o...

Julio Urias spent his first day as a big-leaguer at Dodger Stadium running the waing track and the stairs of an empty lower deck Friday afteoon, a typical between-starts conditioning routine for starting pitchers. The 19-year-old will likely make his first appearance on the mound here Tuesday against the Colorado Rockies, although Dodgers manager Dave Roberts remained non-committal about the starting assignment. “This is an ongoing discussion,” he said. “Right now, yeah, he’s slated to start the...