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Matt Kemp celebrated his 27th birthday by moving a step closer to the NL Triple Crown with a solo homer and Ted Lilly combined with three relievers on a four-hitter, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.
Gio Gonzalez outdueled Jered Weaver and the Oakland Athletics scored the go-ahead run on an eighth-inning error, beating the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 Friday night and eliminating them from the AL West race.
The Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers all clinched their division crowns on Friday night
The Arizona Diamondbacks completed an improbable run to their first NL West crown in four years, beating San Francisco 3-1 Friday night when rookie Paul Goldschmidt lined a two-run triple off Sergio Romo in the eighth inning.
With USC ineligible for the postseason, Arizona State could be the favorite to reach the inaugural Pac-12 championship game out of the South Division.
After missing practice on Wednesday and Thursday, Chargers TE Antonio Gates removed himself from practice on Friday and went back to the locker room.
Los Alamitos improved to 4-0 on the season after crushing University High School 56-0 at Veterans Stadium on Thursday night.
Tight end Kevin Boss sure has picked the perfect game to make his regular season debut with the Oakland Raiders after sitting out the past two weeks with a knee sprain.
The leagues highest paid safety Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers has been fined $15,000 for his helmet-to-helmet clash on New England's tight end Rob Gronkowski.
Last we left our negotiating heroes, Billy Hunter had drawn a line in the sand: The players were prepared to make a significant economic move, but only if the owners dropped their insistence on a hard cap.
Kobe Bryant has been offered a $6.7 million, one-season contract to play for the Italian team Virtus Bologna, appealing to his childhood memories of growing up in the country.
The announced crowd of 37,560 gave the Dodgers a season home attendance total of 2,935,139, the first time they failed to draw at least 3 million in a non-strike year since 1992.
Matt Kemp went 4-for-5 with a two-run homer and a career-high three doubles in his final home game of the season, Juan Rivera homered and drove in three runs and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat San Francisco 8-2 Thursday night, pushing the Giants to the brink of elimination in the NL West playoff race.
To quote Vin Scully on Thursday night after Matt Kemp slugged his 36th homer , "That's not a bat he uses, that's a magic wand."
