Major League Baseball

TV actress JoAnna Garcia, MLB's Nick Swisher welcome baby girl

2013-05-22 17:58:00

JoAnna Garcia Swisher is a new mom! The actress and her baseball-playing husband, Nick Swisher, have welcomed their first child. And it's a girl! The "The Internship" actress and "Freaks and Geeks" alum married the Cleveland Indians first baseman in...

New MLS franchise figures to increase calls for Chivas USA sale

2013-05-21 11:29:00

Now that Major League Soccer has brought years of work to a successful end by placing another franchise in the New York metropolitan era, it's time for Commission Don Garber to turn his attention from the league's newest franchise to the league's most...

The Times' baseball rankings

2013-05-18 22:24:00

In honor of the Billboard Music Awards, which will be presented Sunday in Las Vegas, Times staff writer Kevin Baxter offers a music-themed look at Major League Baseball. (Statistics through Friday’s games. Last week’s rankings in parentheses):...

Letters: A lot of errors going around

2013-05-17 17:44:00

Obviously the owners of the Angels and Dodgers have never heard of team chemistry. Arte Moreno and the Guggenheim Guy thought they could build better teams just by adding more expensive elements. Here's a lesson from Chemistry 101: You won't improve...

Dodgers' medical staff feeling the strain

2013-05-16 22:30:00

Zack Greinke returned to the Dodgers' rotation this week, recovering from surgery on his left shoulder in five weeks, three ahead of schedule. Hanley Ramirez came back last month from a broken thumb two weeks earlier than expected. But head trainer...

The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 1: Sandy Koufax

2013-05-17 11:00:00

We recently asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time, and vote you did, as we received an amazing 12,231 ballots. So many people voted that we have decided to expand the list from the top 10 to the top 20. Each weekday at...

Baseball is diamond in the rough to black players at Gardena Serra

2013-05-14 22:16:00

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on a cluttered street in Gardena, some very big and skilled athletes are hanging out on a concrete basketball court, bouncing around underneath rusted backboards and chain nets, acting out a typical inner-city scene, with...

Outfielders often learn about walls in a crash course

2013-05-14 22:18:00

A clean-shaven Bryce Harper stood in the visitors' clubhouse at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, 11 stitches tracing a line under the chin of the young Washington Nationals star. The night before, Harper was chasing a fly ball when he crashed into an unpadded...

Fox Sports 2 likely to launch in August alongside Fox Sports 1

2013-05-14 05:00:00

News Corp.'s Fox Sports will launch not one, but two new national sports cable channels in August, according to people familiar with the plan. In March, Fox Sports said it would debut Fox Sports 1 on Aug. 17. At the time, the company downplayed talk...

Angels win game and now may win protest as well

2013-05-10 10:29:00

Wins have been few and far between for the Angels this season, but on Thursday in Houston, they may have gotten a pair of victories. Not only did they rally to win the game with the Astros, 6-5, they appeared to have won a protest over an umpire's...

Dodgers are breaking even on the field, doing better off it

2013-05-04 16:35:00

On the day Frank McCourt surrendered the keys to Dodger Stadium and cashed out, the Dodgers had the best record in the National League. In the year since Mark Walter flashed his cash and Magic Johnson flashed his smile — from May 1 of last year...

Umpire, three Rays pitchers are fined

2013-05-02 18:15:00

Major League Baseball fined umpire Tom Hallion and Tampa Bay pitchers David Price, Jeremy Hellickson and Matt Moore for their dustup last weekend. Each of the pitchers was fined $1,000. It was unknown how much Hallion was docked. Hallion was the plate...

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 11: Manager Mike Redmond of the Miami Marlins takes pitcher Kevin Slowey #45 out of the game in the fifth inning during the MLB game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on May 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

2013-05-11 00:00:00

PHILADELPHIA, PA - MAY 5: Pitcher Kevin Slowey #45 delivers a pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies in a MLB baseball game on May 5, 2013 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 163493447

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Left to right, Kyra Brown, 15, freshman, Chardonnay Cooper, 15, sophomore, The Orioles Bird mascot, Kirea Sheppard, 15, sophomore and Bridget Smith, 15, freshman, share a laugh as the students enter Hoyt's West Nursery Cinemas.

2013-05-01 00:00:00