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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

DENVER — The on-field to-do list for Rams middle linebacker Alec Ogletree begins the moment the last play ends. And you’d probably be shocked if you knew exactly how little of it is devoted to himself. Unless your current job includes management responsibilities. If so, you can appreciate the challenges Ogletree faces now that he’s added defensive play-calling to his job duties since making the switch to inside linebacker. Or the headaches and anger, sometimes the result of trying to ensure everyone around you is doing their job. And how their ability to do so — or not — is on you. It’s the complications of being responsible for yourself and your co-workers. For Ogletree, that means hustlin...

ANAHEIM >> In another blow to an Angels team that has received nonstop bad news on injuries this season, Huston Street may be having season-ending knee surgery. Manager Mike Scioscia said Sunday that Street is seeking a second opinion to determine if he needs surgery on the knee. He has been out since Aug. 1 with what was diagnosed as right knee inflamation. Scioscia said so far he doesn’t believe anything would threaten Street’s long-term availability. Street is signed through 2017, with an option for 2018. “I haven’t heard anything in the first couple evaluations of the knee that says it would be any kind of major surgery, but all surgery has some unknown quantity as far as how guys...

LOS ANGELES >> By not showing up, Tre Mason made a huge impact on the Rams’ ruing-back battle in training camp. If Mason had not been arrested in March, to start an apparently sad, complicated saga in his life, the Rams’ depth chart would have been fairly well set with Todd Gurley, Mason and Bey Cuingham. That’s a mix of speed and power that would have made it tough for anyone else to crack the rotation. Instead, more than halfway through training camp, there’s intriguing flux, and heading into Saturday’s preseason game between the Rams and Kansas City Chiefs, there’s at least one job to be won. “I want the best backs to be on the roster, no matter who that is,” Cuingham said this wee...

ANAHEIM >> In its moment of truth, the franchise record for the longest losing streak in Angels history would be determined by the long, lumbering legs of Jett Bandy. The 26-year-old catcher is not as fast as his name implies. Still, there he was Tuesday on first base with two outs in the eighth iing of a tie game when Cliff Peington shot a line drive into the right-field coer. Bandy chugged around second base, then third, then obeyed the windmilling arm of third base coach Ron Roenicke. The Seattle Mariners’ relay was even slower than Bandy and the play at home plate wasn’t close. The Angels had won, 7-6, ending their losing streak at 11 games. Bandy also hit a home run in the sixth ...