Guillermo Mota

Giants, Rangers scoreless after first inning The Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants both threatened in the first inning but neither scored in World Series Game 3 at Rangers Park in Arlington. The Rangers' Michael Young hit a one-out single......

Jonathan Sanchez is lights-out when he's on - take his no-hitter against the Padres in July 2009 - or jittery and way off when he's not. Saturday was one of those off days. The lefty allowed two home runs in Game 3 of the World Series against the...

Giants, Rangers scoreless after first inning After a combined 18 runs in the opener, World Series Game 2 got off to a much quieter start Thursday night with the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers scoreless after the first inning.......

The Rangers are in Texas-size trouble after World Series Game 2 on Thursday night. Giants reliever and former Dodger Guillermo Mota threw a scoreless ninth inning and San Francisco routed the Rangers, 9-0, to take a two-games-to-none lead in the......

Below is a list of the months and dates of most of the Dodgers' newsworthy off-season acquisitions this decade. The reasons for the list: 1) To show that the off-season doesn't die with the end of the winter meetings. Some......

What was the last Dodger team not to have a player on its roster that appeared in a major-league game in 2009? Still active in 2009 from the ... ... 2008 Dodgers (34): Brad Penny, Jason Repko, Derek Lowe, Hong-Chih......

You know it's been an interesting decade when you see Giovanni Carrara sandwiched between Jonathan Broxton and Eric Gagne ... Dodgers pitcher of the decade? Debatable, but Kevin Brown was first in adjusted ERA among starting pitchers (by a wide......

Two themes dominate the Dodgers' first postseason challenge of 2009: the Cardinals' 1-2 1-2 punches of Albert Pujols-Matt Holliday and Chris Carpenter-Adam Wainwright, and St. Louis' relative dominance of the Dodgers in recent years. It's heavy stuff,...

Figure on 11 spots for the postseason pitching staff, as off days allow the Dodgers to drop a starter and a reliever from their usual 13: In unless someone's roof caves in (7): Randy Wolf, Hiroki Kuroda, Clayton Kershaw, Jonathan......

The silence in the Dodgers' dressing quarters was pierced by an expletive. For the second consecutive night, the Dodgers fell to the Atlanta Braves in extra innings at Dodger Stadium, this time by a 2-1 score in 10 innings. The Dodgers, who were nine...

LOS ANGELES -- The fans at Dodger Stadium rose and roared as the left fielder stepped into the batter's box. The left fielder was Juan Pierre. That Manny Ramirez didn't receive the loudest ovation of the night in his first game back from a 50-game...

NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST LOS ANGELES DODGERS (84-78, 1st) MANAGER: Joe Torre (2nd season) PAYROLL: $92 million X-FACTOR: If Rafael Furcal's back cooperates, he should be the energizer at the top of the lineup he's always been. BEST CASE: Manny Ramirez...