Howard Cole

With a 17-5 three-week run of mostly-inspired play, the Dodgers have saved their 2013 season. Credit Yasiel Puig and Hanley Ramirez, certainly; credit Adrian Gonzalez and Clayton Kershaw; credit Don Mattingly for his skippering and Stan Kasten for allowing him to continue, if that's what gets you through the night......

The next time your better half complains about all the baseball you've been watching this summer, you might just want point to this guy. He's Aaron Roberts, a 29-year-old high school substitute teacher from Huntington Beach, whose eyes haven't left the TV screen (or bank of TVs, actually) for a......

While what I'd really like to do this afternoon is steer as far away from the Yasiel-Puig-is-a-bad-guy silliness as is humanly possible, let's give it the few paragraphs it deserves before moving on to the exhilarating play of the Los Angeles Dodgers. That's Adrian Gonzalez in the photo above, surrounded......

Between the compulsive crotch grabbing of one player, the extracurricular near-the-head hit-by-pitch antics of another, and the tripping-over-his-own-two-feet-falling-down-on-the-warning-track-for-no-apparent-reason boner of a play by a third, the Arizona Diamondbacks find themselves a wee bit dirty and in need of a bath. And the men from Southern California have seen fit to......

As is the case nearly every fifth day, Sunday's blueprint for Dodger victory was presented by Clayton Kershaw. Eight innings of three-hit one-run ball, with an extremely-clutch ninth inning bases-clearing double from A.J. Ellis, was good enough for the individual W, and a series win for Los Angeles. And as......

Fine, so it's not exactly MacArthur returning to the Philippines. But here we are again; the Dodgers with reinforcements in camp, better prepared for the enemy than when last they met, the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop. Those Dodgers, in the middle of an eight-game losing streak which would take......

You might've missed it, what with the weather and all. Hopefully, the trips to the big box stores were timed around baseball, because while you were out searching in vain for an electric fan only to find the shelves bare and thereby forcing an investment in a genuine air conditioning......

With the Dodgers' win streak at a measly two games Monday, we posed the question, "can they make a run?" The writer muttered something about a little skepticism being a healthy thing. Well, here we are four days later after Los Angeles has rolled off six straight wins, and don't......

This feels a bit better now, doesn't it? Buried in last place, 12 games under .500 and 9.5 out of first place just four days ago, L.A.'s Dodgers have won four straight to improve to 34-42 and seven games back. Most importantly, they've won within the division, beating the Padres......

A little skepticism is a healthy thing. The Dodgers beat the Padres in San Diego Saturday and Sunday and we're all pleased. Relieved, ecstatic, borderline giddy, actually. My bad mood rises after a Los Angeles victory, staying with me overnight and right up until game time the next day. Twitter......