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The odds of a baseball player being selected in the MLB draft are slim. Ten years earlier, Smeltzer met a young Phillies second baseman named Chase Utley during a visit to Citizens Bank Park and got his autograph. Now Utley plays for the Dodgers, giving Smeltzer a chance to meet the now not-so-young second baseman again. Continue to Article

March 31, 2018 10:47:am EST

LOS ANGELES -- Even the movie moguls of Hollywood might find the script Giants second baseman Joe Panik has written over the season's first two days too preposterous to turn into a film. Panik homered off All-Star Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen in the ninth inning on Friday, the only run in the Giants' 1-0 win in Los Angeles. It was a familiar scene: Panik's fifth-inning homer on Thursday off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was the only run in San Francisco's win on opening day. "This spring, I felt really good about my swing and just carried that momentum into the season," Panik said. "Granted, for me as hitter, two home runs in two games off those guys, that's a good feeling. It's not something you Continue to Article

March 31, 2018 2:34:am EST

The boos at Dodger Stadium are usually reserved for Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner. Joe Panik heard it in pre-game introductions, when the sellout crowd lightly booed the man who hit the game-winning homer on opening day. When Panik took Kenley Jansen to the bleachers in the ninth, Dodgers fans hit full-on Posey Mode. Continue to Article

March 31, 2018 1:30:am EST

Joe Panik hit Kenley Jansen's second pitch for a home run leading off the ninth inning Friday night, giving the San Francisco Giants a second straight 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles in a game that featured brilliant pitching performances by starters Johnny Cueto and Alex Wood. Panik also delivered the only run of the Giants' Opening Day win, homering off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw in the fifth inning. Continue to Article

March 31, 2018 12:45:am EST

Tony Ferguson will bring a 10-fight winning streak into his main event clash with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. LOS ANGELES — Throwing out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game is a ceremonial honor few people refuse. Ferguson, who holds the interim UFC lightweight title, currently trains in Costa Mesa, California, which is in the heart of Orange County, the Los Angeles Angels’ stronghold. Continue to Article

March 29, 2018 11:22:pm EST