The Latest Breaking News from Evan Phillips

DENVER — Dave Roberts wanted to avoid using two of his top three relievers on Wednesday night after de facto closer Evan Phillips pitched in the previous three games and setup man Brusdar Graterol pitched in three of four games.

In their 66 years of playing baseball in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have never fielded a pitching staff with numbers this bad.

LOS ANGELES ― A bold display of power got the Los Angeles Dodgers back in the game Thursday against the Chicago White Sox.

The Dodgers traded their feast-or-famine offense for a Happy Medium Meal on Tuesday night, combining a solid-but-not-spectacular offense with some stout pitching from Julio Urías for a 5-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies before a sellout crowd of 52,290 in Chavez Ravine.

As Los Angeles stuck to a script that got it in trouble, San Diego hardly looked like the underdog in defeating its division rival in the NLDS.

SAN DIEGO — The disaster unfolded in slow motion, a train wreck of an inning, of a playoff series, of a once-promising and historic 2022 season.

Los Angeles’s manager has made operating without a closer an advantage for baseball’s best team.

What started as a party turned into a nail-biter, a game once seemingly headed for a blowout instead becoming an immediate October stress test.

LOS ANGELES — Four hours before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 Thursday on a walk-off hit by Mookie Betts, the eyes of everyone in blue were riveted on the Dodger Stadium pitcher’s mound.

MILWAUKEE — Walker Buehler pitched his last game of the season on June 10. Clayton Kershaw is on the injured list for the second time this season. Dustin May is still more hope than reality.

SAN FRANCISCO — After mostly standing pat Tuesday afternoon at baseball’s trade deadline, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi justified his decision not to dismantle a team free-falling out of playoff position by reasoning, “a hot two weeks can turn it around.”