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UPDATE: Slugger Cody Bellinger’s huge seventh-inning home run broke open a tie game and sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series, as they beat the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in a tense Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. Reliever Julio Urias ran through the final nine outs to close out the win for the…

Two Los Angeles Dodgers greats who helped lead the team to World Series wins in the 1960s have died. Ron Perranoski, the lefthanded weapon of the Dodgers’ bullpen who helped them win a pair of World Series championships in the 1960s, died Friday night in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 84 and had a long but unspecified…

UPDATED, 2:42 PM: Storied arenas on both coasts are getting political in this consequential year. Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and the Forum in Inglewood near LAX said separately today that they will serve as polling sites for the November 3 elections. Voters who are assigned to Madison Square Garden, where the…

Add the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants game scheduled for tonight to the list of major sports game postponed in protest of the Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting of Jacob Blake. The teams were scheduled for a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco that would have been televised by ESPN. The teams have postponed…

The heavens opened up on Major League Baseball's opening day in more ways than one last night. With biblical-scale rain coming down on National Park on Thursday, the long-awaited and coronavirus-delayed face-off between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals to launch the 2020 season was cut short. However, if…

It’s almost time to play ball for Major League Baseball, as the American and National leagues are poised to embark on what promises to be the strangest season in the game’s long and storied history. The regular season finally gets underway on Thursday with the New York Yankees against the defending world champion Washi…

Major League Baseball, in the face of mounting logistical challenges due to COVID-19, released its official 60-game season schedule Monday. The long-delayed campaign, with teams playing barely one-third of their customary 162 regular-season games, will kick off July 23 with two marquee matchups televised by ESPN. The N…

In 2016, Andrew Toles was a starting outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs. This week, he was arrested for trespassing after being found sleeping behind a FedEx building in Key West, Florida. On June 22, Toles was arrested after being given several chances by police to move. When he refused, he was…

The LA County Economic Resiliency Task Force on Friday submitted a report proposing a four-phase plan to reopen venues for sports and live entertainment in the region. The report’s timeline suggests that Major League Baseball could begin its shortened season in July, and Major League Soccer in August. If implemented…

Spectrum SportsNet LA said Wednesday that it has reached a carriage agreement that will see DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-verse TV and AT&T TV Now customers finally be able to watch Los Angeles Dodgers games. The deal ends a six-year impasse that has kept the MLB team off DirecTV screens in more than half of homes in its own…

UPDATED, 11;55 AM: Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred today gave his first public interview regarding the sign-stealing scandal that has rocked the sport. He also took time to respond to the Los Angeles City Council’s resolution that urges MLB to give the tainted 2017 and 2018 World Series titles to the…

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias has been suspended 20 games after he was accused of shoving a woman to the ground at an L.A. shopping mall in May. “My office has completed its investigation into the allegations that Julio Urias violated Major League Baseball’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child…