Sarah Wexler

LOS ANGELES -- On Wednesday night, the Dodgers celebrated Shohei Ohtani's offensive prowess with a bobblehead commemorating his 2024 50-50 campaign. They also saw their two-way star take a major step forward on the pitching side. For the first time as a Dodger, Ohtani completed five innings, allowing just one

For the better part of the 2010s, Clayton Kershaw was, by a fair consensus, the best pitcher in baseball. The left-hander won three National League Cy Young Awards in the span of four years (2011, ’13, ’14), the NL MVP Award in ’14 and led his league in ERA for

LOS ANGELES -- Oneil Cruz and the leadoff spot are looking as though they were meant for each other. That was clear from pitch one on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. With yet another game-opening home run, a hard-hit RBI single and a walk, Cruz’s bat stayed blazing in the

LOS ANGELES -- Oneil Cruz and the leadoff spot are looking as though they were meant for each other. That was clear from pitch one on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. With yet another game-opening home run, a hard-hit RBI single and a walk, Cruz’s bat stayed blazing in the

LOS ANGELES -- The eyes of the baseball world were on Dodger Stadium on Friday night, where two of the game’s premier arms were going up against each other. And Paul Skenes, for his part, more than lived up to the hype in outmatching Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Skenes was

LOS ANGELES -- The eyes of the baseball world were on Dodger Stadium on Friday night, where two of the game’s premier arms were going up against each other. And Paul Skenes, for his part, more than lived up to the hype in outmatching Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Skenes was

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ANAHEIM -- The Dodgers continue to take things day by day with Mookie Betts as he deals with an undiagnosed illness that has caused him to drop approximately 18 pounds in the span of two weeks. As of Monday, it appears the shortstop could finally be on the upswing. Betts

LOS ÁNGELES -- Después de que Mookie Betts y Freddie Freeman se perdieron los partidos de los Dodgers en Tokio, ambos estaban en la alineación original para el juego de la Serie del Freeway la noche del domingo, una victoria por 7-1 contra los Angelinos en el Dodger Stadium. Pero

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 21.

LOS ANGELES -- An estimated quarter-million people donning Dodger blue gathered in downtown L.A. on Friday with two World Series’ worth of celebrating to do. Everyone was abuzz from the Dodgers’ Fall Classic victory over the Yankees, which concluded with a historic comeback win in Game 5 on Wednesday at

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Women’s sports are having a moment. Just look at the soaring popularity of women’s college basketball and the WNBA, or the growth of the National Women’s Soccer League, or the establishment of the Professional Women’s Hockey League earlier this year. More and more, opportunities are arising

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 15: 1) Jim Palmer (1945) The Hall of Fame right-hander was one of the most dominant pitchers of

LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani got plenty of appreciation from the fans in Miami for his unfathomable 6-for-6, three-homer, 10-RBI, two-steal, 17-base performance to establish MLB’s 50-50 club on Thursday at loanDepot Park, even taking a rare road curtain call. But it wasn’t the same as hearing it from the

LOS ANGELES -- If the Cubs are to keep their slim-yet-extant hopes for the postseason alive, a number of things are going to have to work in their favor over the next few weeks. They’ve got a couple of teams ahead of them for the third and final NL Wild

LOS ANGELES -- Both the Cubs and Dodgers made major splashes over the past few offseasons by signing big-name Japanese players. Chicago brought in outfielder Seiya Suzuki ahead of the 2022 season, then signed left-hander Shota Imanaga this past winter, when the Dodgers committed more than $1 billion to two-way

LOS ANGELES -- It wasn’t too long ago that Pete Crow-Armstrong had a very different vantage point when he came to Dodger Stadium. The 22-year-old rookie outfielder, a native of Sherman Oaks, Calif., grew up attending games at Chavez Ravine, watching from the stands as an aspiring pro ballplayer. Cut

LOS ANGELES -- The second half of 2024 has seen some uneven results for the Dodgers. A swoon that ran from late July into early August opened the door for the Padres and D-backs to close the gap a bit on L.A.’s NL West lead, making it a tight divisional

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LOS ANGELES -- The second half of 2024 has seen some uneven results for the Dodgers. A swoon that ran from late July into early August opened the door for the Padres and D-backs to close the gap a bit on L.A.’s NL West lead, making it a tight divisional