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Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesRod Barajas throws out Miguel Tejada at first during the ninth inning Thursday.Giants at Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.Rafael Furcal, SSIvan De Jesus...
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The Dodgers have sent Juan Uribe for precautionary X-rays on his left elbow, according to Tony Jackson of ESPN Angeles. Uribe was plunked on the elbow by his former...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
And on the second day, Juan Uribe rested. Not planned, not what the Dodgers were counting on for their major offseason acquisition, but it's how it played out...
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The reaction to anything that happens on opening day is usually overblown. We've waited five months for real baseball and then gorge on all that occurs, perhaps...
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All things considered, Brandon Belt had a great major league debut on March 31. In all my years watching the San Francisco Giants from the center-field bleachers as an...
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Rivalries can be a fun aspect of sports and fans can cherish the competitive nature that goes along with rooting for a favorite team to win the big game against the...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
As you would expect, plenty of coverage of the Dodgers' 2-1 season-opening victory over the Giants: -- The Times' Dylan Hernandez writes that Clayton...
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ESPN's Dan Shulman, Orel Hershiser and Bobby Valentine recap the Dodgers' win over the Giants. A final thought about airplanes flying banners. When I see...
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I haven't always been a Houston Astros fan -- and since I was a Southern California native, I used to root for the Los Angeles Dodgers. As a matter of fact, the...
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At $32 million, the Yankees third baseman's salary dwarfs that of every other ballplayer. His team's payroll is largest.
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Until last season the Texas Rangers had only enjoyed postseason success three previous times: 1996, 1998 and 1999. In those years, they advanced to the League Division...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
One incident of violence at Dodger Stadium is one too many. Los Angeles police are looking for two men who beat and critically injured a San Francisco Giants fan in the...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
Los Angeles police are looking for two men who beat and criticallyinjured a San Francisco Giants fan in the Dodger Stadium parkinglot after the opening day...
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The baseball season is extremely long and one win does not guarantee a successful season. However, there is something special about winning on opening day at home...
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Los Angeles police are looking for two men who beat and critically injured a San Francisco Giants fan in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after the opening day game. Sgt...
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For one day, all was right in the Dodgers' world. Clayton Kershaw really did look like the next coming of Sandy Koufax, Matt Kemp really was more disciplined at...
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Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesMatt Kemp steals second base in the eighth inning with the Dodgers leading, 1-0.Mostly lost in my Opening Day appreciation of Clayton...
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The reaction to anything that happens on opening day is usually overblown. We've waited five months for real baseball and then gorge on all that occurs, perhaps...
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Henry Yu really did it. As he promised, Yu spent $1,050 the way any loyal San Francisco Giants fan with means would spend it. He hired an airplane to fly over Dodger...
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Don Mattingly's phone buzzed with text messages of good luck tothe new Los Angeles Dodgers manager on opening day. The man who hadgroomed him for the job...
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Dodgers' win over Giants show they've got stuff of champs.
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From the Web › LA Daily News
Dodgers fans should be happy, at least for one day. Fernando Valenzuela threw out the ceremonial first pitch, a stealth bomber flyover accompanied Placido...
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From the Web › LA Daily News
Jonathan Broxton sprinted from the bullpen to the pitcher's mound in the bottom of the ninth just like he's always done when called upon to close a game...
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From the Web › LA Daily News
LOS ANGELES - Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he was surprisingly calm before Thursday's season opener at Dodger Stadium against the San Francisco...
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LOS ANGELES - Dodger fans should be happy, at least for one day. Fernando Valenzuela threw out the ceremonial first pitch, a stealth bomber fly-over accompanied Placido...
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Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he was surprisingly calm before Thursday's season opener at Dodger Stadium against the San Francisco Giants.
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The San Francisco pitcher complains of neck and back soreness after West Hollywood collision. He'd been scheduled to pitch Sunday at Dodger Stadium.Barry...
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Clayton Kershaw outduels the Giants' Tim Lincecum, Matt Kemp plays both patiently and aggressively, and Jonathan Broxton hangs on for the save in opening-day...
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Opening day yields a victory over the Giants, just as the home team had begun to get that Clippers feel about it. Golly gee whiz, this is so exciting, the Dodgers...
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From the Web › FOX Sports
Don Mattingly matched a 25-year-old feat in his managerialdebut. Another win over the reigning World Series champions wouldput the Los Angeles Dodgers in position for...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Kemp shows patience in walking three times in the Dodgers' 2-1 opening-day victory. Two of his walks result in the Dodgers' runs against the Giants.Matt...
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Dodgers' ace outduels Giants' Tim Lincecum in a 2-1 victory. Matt Kemp scores both runs.Rod Barajas is 35 years old. This season is his 13th in the major...
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Tim Lincecum was his solid self. The Giants' defense wasn't,though, and it cost them as San Francisco opened defense of itsWorld Series championship with...
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Tim Lincecum was his solid self. The Giants' defense wasn't,though, and it cost them as San Francisco opened defense of itsWorld Series championship with...
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Even the hawk feather coach Tim Flannery carried to a World Series title in 2010 can't prevent loss to the Dodgers.
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Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven dominant innings andMatt Kemp scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error by catcherBuster Posey in the sixth, sending the Los...
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The New York Yankees could get used to March baseball in the Bronx.
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Clayton Kershaw's greatness is expected, so the most pleasantly surprising sign for the Dodgers in their 2-0 Opening Day victory over the San Francisco Giants...
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Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven dominant innings andMatt Kemp scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error by catcherBuster Posey in the sixth, sending the Los...
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On a day when the San Francisco Giants were battling the Los Angeles Dodgers on opening day about 400 miles down the coast, the most famous former Giant not named Willie...
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Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven dominant innings and Matt Kemp scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error by catcher Buster Posey in the sixth, sending the Los...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The impressive, season-opening pitching duel between Clayton Kershaw and Tim Lincecum ended after seven innings. Hong-Chih Kuo relieved Kershaw to open the eighth...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
If the Dodgers are going to surprise their doubters this year, it figures it has to be with pitching. No one is expecting them to be an offensive juggernaut. For...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Any hope that the Dodgers would support their pitching with great fundamentals and an underrated offense took an early uppercut to the jaw on Opening Day, 2011.But any...
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He shuts out San Francisco for seven innings, giving up four hits while striking out nine and walking one.He shuts out San Francisco for seven innings, giving up four...
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Clayton Kershaw saw his first trouble of the night in the fifth. After Miguel Tejada flied out to right, Kershaw walked his first batter of the game, rookie Brandon...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Through five innings, the temperature had begun to drop into reasonable spring territory and not the oddly, mid-summer heat that permeated the game's start...
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There was one more plane that tried to fly a banner over Dodger Stadium, but apparently since 9/11 there is an FAA rule that prohibits planes from flying over stadiums...
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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Opening day features dueling aerial messages over Dodger Stadium after widely publicized plans by Giants' fans to tout their World Series win are countered by...
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The shadows have already moved passed the pitching mound by the start of the second innning, and are no longer a factor for hitters. Clayton Kershaw gets the first two...
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Clayton Kershaw looks in midseason form early. Kershaw retired the Giants in order in the top of the third, striking out two. That's six strike outs in three...
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The crowd is fairly subdued for a season opener. It appears the Dodgers sold their full allotment of 56,000 tickets. No-shows are not a real factor. The press box is...
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First airplane banner spotting was at 3:15 p.m. And it was pro-Dodgers. The stadium was only dotted with fans while the Dodgers took batting practice, when a plane made...
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Frank McCourt is in his box for the first pitch, sitting next to tenor Placido Domingo, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Tommy Lasorda. Shadows are already...
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The Milwaukee Brewers chose to go with the good news first on Thursday's opening day, watching as their first two batters made history with two swings of the bat...
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Giants at Dodgers, 5 p.m.Rafael Furcal, SSTony Gwynn Jr., LFAndre Ethier, RFMatt Kemp, CFJames Loney, 1BJuan Uribe, 3BRod Barajas, CJamey Carroll, 2BClayton Kershaw, PIn...
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Pitching matchups drive the game of baseball. Chances are that's the first thing you look at when firing up your computer or opening the morning newspaper. It...
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It was a short day for the Bonds trial — they must all want to get home in time to watch the Giants-Dodgers — and they are now wrapped up for the...
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