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LOS ANGELES — For eight innings, it was a wonderful night for the Phillies. Brock Stassi, the storybook kid, belted a three-run home run. Rookie Andrew Knapp had three hits, including his first big-league home run to give the Phils a three-run lead in the eighth inning, much to the delight of his family and friends whose cheers could be heard rising from deep within the sellout crowd of 53,110. Zach Eflin pitched superbly over seven-walk free innings and even the boys in the dugout had a little fun goofing on Tommy Joseph as he watched the game oblivious to the fact that he had a perfectly formed bubblegum sphere stuck to the top of his cap. For the Phillies, there were plenty of reasons to be Continue to Article

April 30, 2017 3:17:am EST

The San Diego Padres looks to win their second road series of the season while the San Francisco Giants seek their second anywhere when the clubs duel in the rubber match of a three-game series Sunday. The Padres, who are the losingest road team in the majors at 5-12, rebounded from a 4-3 defeat Friday and a 3-1 deficit Saturday to even the series at a win apiece on the strength of an eight-run sixth inning. The win was the Padres' second in 10 road games since they capped a 2-1 series win at Colorado on April 12. Continue to Article

April 30, 2017 2:38:am EST

With his team having homered twice to pull within a run in the ninth inning, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts sent Justin Turner to the plate to keep the rally going. Turner did just that, hitting the third consecutive homer off Hector Neris to open the inning and the Adrian Gonzalez's tiebreaking RBI single capped the four-run rally to lift Los Angeles to a wild 6-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night. The Dodgers trailed 5-2 before Yasiel Puig and Cody Bellinger - who homered twice - hit the first two homers of the ninth, and Turner's shot gave them three straight for the first time since Aug. 18, 2012. Continue to Article

April 30, 2017 2:09:am EST

Who could ever forget Sept. 18, 2006? That was the night the Los Angeles Dodgers hit four straight home runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the San Diego Padres, before defeating them one inning later on a Nomar Garciaparra walk-off homer. For Continue to Article

April 30, 2017 1:37:am EST

The Dodgers were having a bad game in an already bad season, but it was a typically nice evening to catch a baseball game in Chavez Ravine. More than 36,000 fans packed into Dodgers Stadium to watch the home team take on the Philadelphia Phillies. Miles away in a Simi Valley courtroom, a jury had already rendered its verdict: not guilty for the four LAPD officers caught beating a prone Rodney King on videotape. But for those entering the stadium for a 7 p.m. game, it was like stepping into a kind of bubble. There were no smart phones or Twitter on April 29, 1992. There was no device to tell them in the fast scrawl of social media that Los Angeles was quickly devolving into chaos. Still, there Continue to Article

April 29, 2017 7:00:am EST