Kenley Jansen Having Record Season
Lost in the Clayton Kerhaw and Matt Kemp Triple-Crown talk has been the dominant season by Dodgers reliever Kenley Jansen.
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Lost in the Clayton Kerhaw and Matt Kemp Triple-Crown talk has been the dominant season by Dodgers reliever Kenley Jansen.
By the time Matt Kemp bats in the last game of the regular season Wednesday night he hopes to be ready to enter some of the rarest territory in baseball.
The Brewers say they will set a home attendance record during the final three days of the regular season.
Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda is denying reports out of Japan that he has agreed to pitch in Hiroshima in 2012, according to Ken Gurnick of mlb.com.
Clayton Kershaw got his 21st win, taking a two-hitter into the eighth inning to make his final case for the NL Cy Young award and leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres on Sunday.
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.
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."
Tom Lasorda sat down on the dugout bench in his No. 2 white jersey as the media closed in on him for a pregame chat. His piercing blue eyes were clear and he spoke with the same strident tone.
A person familiar with the situation says Manny Ramirez will not be allowed to play winter ball in the Dominican Republic because he neither served a suspension nor contested it following a positive drug test this year.
Clayton Kershaw hears the Cy Young Award talk swirling around him, although he won't indulge it. With his 20th victory and major league-leading 2.27 ERA, the low-key Los Angeles Dodgers ace is letting his numbers do the talking.
Clayton Kershaw became the Los Angeles Dodgers' first 20-game winner in 21 years, beating San Francisco 2-1 on Tuesday night and pushing the Giants closer to elimination from the NL West race.
The San Francisco Giants are enjoying their longest win streak of the season with eight straight, but it will be tough to keep it going against Clayton Kershaw.
Kershaw was ejected in Wednesday night's game for hitting Arizona's Gerardo Parra, the day after Parra took offense to nearly being hit by Los Angeles reliever Hong-Chih Kuo.
Clayton Kershaw got his 19th victory, allowing one hit over five-plus innings before he was ejected along with manager Don Mattingly, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 Wednesday night.
Chris Young scored the go-ahead run on a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning, lifting the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks to a 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.
The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the 3rd annual Star Wars Night on Friday September 16 as the Dodgers host Andrew McCutchen and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals have not scheduled a makeup date for the final game of the three game series that was rained out on Thursday afternoon.
Tony Gwynn hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 7-4 in the first game of a doubleheader on Thursday.
Dodgers right fielder Andre Ethier has been shut down for the rest of the season with a knee injury.
Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe had surgery Wednesday to repair a sports hernia and will be out for the rest of the season.
Stephen Strasburg allowed two hits over five shutout innings Tuesday night in his first major league start since undergoing Tommy John surgery, but the bullpen blew the lead as the Washington Nationals lost 7-3 to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
