Mike MacDougal

ST. LOUIS — The Cubs have two prime All-Star candidates on this year's fan ballot in Starlin Castro and Bryan LaHair, though it will be difficult for either to make it as a starter without any help from the team's marketing department. Castro,...

Six weeks into the season, Andre Ethier can report his surgically repaired right knee is holding up fine. "Everything feels good," he said. Ethier entered Saturday as the National League leader in runs batted in with 32. While teammate Matt Kemp's home...

Yeah, right, there’s an outcome you’d best not tie your little playoff hopes to. The one thing Ronald Belisario has been the past two years is completely unreliable. He’ll always have 2009, when he was an absolute stud (2.04 ERA, .201...

A.J. Ellis, an All-Star? "Why not?" Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly asked. Lost in the avalanche of home runs by Matt Kemp and Dodgers victories has been the play of Ellis, who, at 31, is in his first season as a major league starting catcher....

Ronald Belisario will pitch for the Dodgers again. Belisario, who lost more than a season after testing positive for cocaine, was reinstated by the Dodgers from the restricted list and placed on the active roster. Because of the positive test, the hard-...

Look at it this way, at least now the Dodgers have the threat of power on their bench. Because otherwise, the whole bench is the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." Slap hitters, on-base guys, lots of utility guys, but nobody who can actually place a small fear into...

And now for a slight pause in the celebration over the Dodgers’ fast start. Pause, as in to just mention, after Friday afternoon’s 5-4 loss to the lowly Cubs in Wrigley Field, the Dodgers have now dropped three of their last four. A mere...

Nathan Eovaldi is headed back to the Dodgers. The right-hander went 1-2 with a 3.63 ERA in 10 appearances (six starts) last season. He left double-A Chattanooga on Thursday and will join the Dodgers in Los Angeles on Friday, according to the Times Free...

Don Mattingly believes. Or maybe it’s just that he believes it’s best that he believes. Either way, the end result is the same: for now he’s sticking with struggling Javy Guerra as his closer. Mattingly admitted to concern over Guerra&...

DENVER — If the sale of the Dodgers closes Tuesday morning as expected, the team will have sent departing owner Frank McCourt out a loser. With Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and Juan Rivera recording consecutive outs in the seventh inning with the...

What’s more amazing? The way Matt Kemp continues to make Major League Baseball’s regular season look like his personal home run-hitting contest? Or that it took this long for Clayton Kershaw to win his first game? Kemp hit his ninth home run...

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