The Latest Breaking News from Dave Roberts

MILWAUKEE — The Dodgers have done this song and dance before.

MILWAUKEE — The door to Dave Roberts’ office stayed shut a little longer than usual after Monday night’s game.

Walker Buehler, the Dodgers’ top starting pitcher, is slowly working his way back from mid-June surgery to remove bone spurs in his elbow. Another lower-back injury sent Clayton Kershaw, the three-time National League Cy Young Award winner, to the injured list last week for the second time this season.

By now, the years are starting to blend together, the decade-long renaissance making one season indistinguishable from the last. October baseball is now taken for granted in this city.

Social media users slammed bigger petrol providers with one asking: "So a tiny village garage in Herefordshire can manage this, but not the mega-stations of Shell, BP, Esso etc?"

LOS ANGELES — The first time through the top of the Dodgers’ order on Saturday night, San Diego Padres starter Mike Clevinger made only one bad pitch, hanging a slider that Will Smith hit for a home run.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts insisted it wouldn’t be a litmus test.

LOS ANGELES — It was deafening. It was discordant. It was perfect.

SAN FRANCISCO — Clayton Kershaw knew right away that something was wrong.