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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...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout and Huston Street, like everyone else, have been watching the nightmarish scenes on television from Houston, and they wanted to do something about it. Trout aounced via Twitter on Tuesday that he was donating $27,000 – an amount to correspond to his jersey No. 27 – to aid the relief effort of Tropical Storm Harvey. Street, a Texas native, said via his Twitter account ...

Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee aounced Monday that Dirtbags head coach Troy Buckley signed a contract extension through the 2022 season. The extension includes four additional years, increased base salary and supplemental compensation based on success on and off the field. “I am very grateful and appreciative of this opportunity to continue to lead this historic program going forwa...

ANAHEIM >> The Angels, who have waited all season for their offense to arrive, are finally enjoying an extended hot streak at the plate. The Angels’ come-from-behind 8-6 victory over the Oakland A’s on Friday night was their fourth straight victory, and sixth in their last seven. In all seven ...

ATLANTA >> Well, at least the Dodgers won’t have to play the Atlanta Braves in the postseason. Catcher Tyler Flowers came off the bench to hit a two-run, pinch-hit home run off Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez in the eighth iing of a tie game, sending the Braves to a 5-3 victory over the Dodgers ...

LOS ANGELES >> Never have so many waited so long to watch Ehire Adrianza play baseball. With no heroics necessary — but a deep supply of patience required — the Dodgers extended their latest wiing streak to four games with a 6-2 victory over the Miesota Twins on Tuesday night in a game tha...

Las Vegas Summer League did not just provide a platform for Lonzo Ball to show early retus on his NBA potential. It also gave Alex Caruso a setting to convince the Lakers to keep him. The Lakers and Caruso agreed to a two-year deal on a two-way contract, a new mechanism that allows NBA teams and t...

The Ducks signed forward Deis Rasmussen to a one-year contract worth $725,000 on Friday. Rasmussen, 27, spent his first two NHL seasons with Chicago after playing with the Blackhawks’ American Hockey League team in 2014-15 following three seasons playing professionally in his native Sweden. Rasmus...

LOS ANGELES >> Starting pitching sure ain’t what it used to be. Once dinosaurs such as Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan roamed the earth, snarling at anyone who dared to approach the pitcher’s mound before the ninth iing. “Five and fly” was an insult, dripping with disdain, aimed at s...

LOS ANGELES >> Candace Parker and Chelsea Gray scored 17 points apiece and the Sparks rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit to beat the Washington Mystics 76-69 on Sunday at Staples Center. Parker grabbed 11 rebounds, Nneka Ogwumike who played the entire second half with four fouls had 15 p...

With two main events Saturday night, the Irwindale Speedway Late Model class will reach the halfway point of its 2017 season. Thus far, this campaign has a similar look to the past two years when Trevor Huddleston won the driving title. The 21-year-old Moorpark College student from Agoura Hills has ...

LOS ANGELES >> Not even the best, most sophisticated Doppler could have forecast this cold snap. The Dodgers came into Monday night’s opener of the Freeway Series as the hottest team in baseball, averaging eight runs per game during a 10-game wiing streak with at least one home run in each o...

LOS ANGELES >> For the better part of four hours Sunday, the Dodgers and Rockies looked like two teams that couldn’t get out of their own way. More than a battle for first place, it was a battle of which catcher could keep the most baseballs from trickling to the backstop. One wild pitch at a ...

LOS ANGELES >> For the better part of four hours Sunday, the Dodgers and Rockies looked like two teams that couldn’t get out of their own way. More than a battle for first place, it was a battle of which catcher could keep the most baseballs from trickling to the backstop. One wild pitch at a ...

LOS ANGELES >> Adrian Gonzalez has been dealing with back pain on and off since 2012 – more frequently on than off over the past two years. He is not willing to put up with it much longer. The Dodgers’ veteran first baseman said he went to the DL for the first time in his 14-year career last m...

Alex Midler had home turf advantage in the opening round of the Dew Tour’s first round of amateur competition on Thursday on the grounds of the Long Beach Convention Center. The Los Angeles resident had the highest score among 54 amateurs in the three-part street course skateboard semifinals. Midler...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout’s homer drought — all of one game — ended. Cameron Maybin continued to be practically unable to make an out. Albert Pujols continued to rack up RBI. Even Day Espinosa, a few days removed from a career-worst hitless strea...

A confident and more energized Long Beach Poly boys volleyball team came to play in the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs, but it wasn’t enough on Thursday night at home. After an upset win on the road in the opening round, the Jackrabbits (10-8) gave Notre...

The Long Beach State Dirtbags (10-8) beat host Pepperdine and Grand Canyon on Saturday in nonconference play at Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu to extend their wiing streak to four games. LBSU allowed just one run in each game while holding their opponents to a combined seven hits.The Dirtbags edg...

LOS ANGELES >> The irony is Alec Ogletree was hopelessly out of position mere seconds before making the play that may have saved the Rams season. The game-saving tackle. The heads up fumble recovery. The delirious eruption from more than 90,000 at the Coliseum that blew the roof off Los Angeles and, finally, Ogletree’s sprint to his mom and dad to proudly present them with the football he scooped up was agonizingly close to never happening. That it did means Ogletree is etched in Los Angeles Rams lore forever. And it’s a place he’ll cherish forever. “It was an amazing feeling being out there today,” he said. “It was a historical day. And I was glad to be a part of it.” • Box score • P...