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LOS ANGELES — The 2022 season began with hyperbole about the Dodgers fielding one of the best teams ever.

The Braves swept the Mets are looking like serious World Series contenders again.

LOS ANGELES — How joyful. How fitting. With the Los Angeles Dodgers already having achieved nearly every conceivable regular-season goal — and adding victory No. 110 by the end of the night — Saturday provided an opportunity to honor a broadcaster employed by the franchise for 64 years and a…

LOS ANGELES — As the Cardinals inch nearer a playoff berth, they have a few questions they must yet confront before October arrives.

LOS ANGELES — It was a straightforward game conducted with a straightforward pitching plan.

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.

The Dodgers lurched through a doubleheader Tuesday of two oddly similar games with starkly different outcomes.

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.

SAN FRANCISCO — The rain came, the Giants rallied, but nothing could delay the inevitable.

Last year, they chased the San Francisco Giants in vain until the final day, falling a game short of a division title and victim to an arduous postseason path as a lower-seeded wild card team.

SAN DIEGO — It happened again to Blake Snell, and it happened again to the Padres.