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LOS ANGELES The Dodgers have won a lot of games with big hits. This time, they needed a couple little ones too. Yasiel Puig’s dribbler up the third-base line led to the go-ahead run in the sixth inning as the Dodgers ended their two-game losing streak with a 6-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves Saturday night. The win continued the Dodgers’ dominant summer run after a brief pause. They are now 32-6 since June 7. The Dodgers’ first two runs Saturday came on solo home runs by Corey Seager (a 433-foot drive into the right field pavilion) and Chase Utley. But the ball hardly left the infield during the decisive sixth-inning rally. Yasmani Grandal led off by squibbing a ground ball up the third-base Continue to Article

July 22, 2017 4:00:am EST

Jaime Garcia was back on the mound Friday night -- for the Atlanta Braves. And his performance only helped his trade value. Garcia, the veteran left-hander at the center of trade talks with the Minnesota Twins just 24 hours earlier, took the ball for Atlanta and gave up three runs and seven hits over seven innings as the Braves rolled to a 12-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. And just to boot, Garcia also hit a grand slam off Alex Wood in the fifth inning -- the first for a Braves pitcher since 1966. "Very impressed how he put everything aside and did his job. He was really good again, just like he was the other day, on Sunday," Braves manager Brian Snitker said, referring to Garcia's win over Continue to Article

July 22, 2017 3:05:am EST

Jaime Garcia maintains a poker face most of the time. But the Atlanta pitcher couldn't stop smiling after the biggest hit of his career. Garcia launched a grand slam off previously unbeaten Alex Wood to highlight the Braves' 12-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. "That was pretty unbelievable," Garcia said. "I've never hit a grand slam in my life, not even in Little League." The subject of trade speculation lately, Garcia limited Los Angeles to three runs over seven innings as the Braves won their second straight at Dodger Stadium. The NL West leaders hadn't lost two in a row since June 5-6 against Washington. They've been outscored 18-6 in the first two games of the series. Continue to Article

July 22, 2017 2:32:am EST