Mark McGwire

8 suspended for Dodgers-Diamondbacks brawl

2013-06-14 10:30:00

Major League Baseball announced the suspensions this morning of five players, two managers and one coach in the wake of the Dodgers-Diamondbacks brawl during Tuesday night’s game at Dodger Stadium. Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy, who hit Dodgers...

Dodgers say Ian Kennedy should have received longer suspension

2013-06-14 15:39:00

PITTSBURGH – Major League Baseball was too lenient with Ian Kennedy. That was the consensus in the Dodgers’ clubhouse Friday, after players and coaches learned of the punishment issued by Major League Baseball for the violent brawl against...

MLB suspensions are serious business, but Dodgers get a laugh

2013-06-14 22:11:00

PITTSBURGH — The Dodgers reacted with bemusement and amusement Friday after Major League Baseball issued eight suspensions to Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks personnel for their roles in a violent brawl during the teams' game Tuesday night at...

Dodgers-Diamondbacks suspensions: L.A. wins in a KO

2013-06-15 07:22:00

Major League Baseball has revealed its scorecard for this week's brawl between the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Dodgers have won in a knockout. Both teams had pitchers who were clearly throwing at hitters, yet only the Diamondbacks lost...

Baseball can no longer accept that fighting is a part of the game

2013-06-12 23:01:00

In the wake of Tuesday night's street fight at Chavez Ravine, longtime fan Janet Ochoa sent the Dodgers an email. "You should be ashamed of yourself for your bench-clearing brawls," it read. "Thanks for ruining what used to be fun family time." Her...

In Dodgers-Diamondbacks brawl, Dodgers swung and missed

2013-06-12 10:44:00

The Dodgers have finally found something they are willing to fight for. But on Tuesday night, it was the wrong thing. In a brawl that will undoubtedly cost them suspensions that could even include their best player -- what was Swingin' Clayton Kershaw...

Dodgers, Diamondbacks brawl after Zack Greinke is beaned

2013-06-11 22:00:00

And then things got really heated. A genuine baseball brawl broke out, with punches and scrums and plenty of anger. After Ian Kennedy�hit Yasiel Puig in the nose with a pitch in the sixth, the next inning Zack Greinke immediately hit Miguel Montero in...

Kirk Gibson discusses the Dodgers-Diamondbacks melee [Video]

2013-06-12 07:10:00

The brawl between the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night was pretty eventful, as baseball fights go, with Dodgers batting coach Mark McGwire taking on Arizona Manager Kirk Gibson and batting coach Matt Williams, Dodgers pitcher J.P....

Dodgers rally in eighth to beat Diamondbacks, 5-3

2013-06-11 22:35:00

Wild, scary, a bit on the crazy side, yet ultimately for the Dodgers, maybe their sweetest victory of the season. After an old-fashioned baseball brawl in the seventh that led to five ejections and plenty of heated Dodgers, the Diamondbacks came back to...

Yasiel Puig gives Dodgers a bat, a leg and an arm up in MLB debut

2013-06-03 23:33:00

The throw was a like a thunderbolt from right field, a gift from the baseball gods to the fans who continue to support the most expensive last-place team in history. In a single moment of physical brilliance, Yasiel Puig electrified Dodger Stadium...

MLB drug scandal: Baseball still can't clean up its drug act

2013-06-07 09:39:00

Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, declared the game's steroid era "clearly a thing of the past" and the use of banned performance-enhancing substances "virtually nonexistent." It was January 2010, and former home run champion Mark McGwire had just...

New year, same old Angels and Dodgers

2013-05-18 17:01:00

When I think of our local baseball teams and their supporters, I envision my wife in a bathing suit. Or trying to get into one. Every year when spring arrives, I hear about her summer plans and how good she's going to look in a new bathing suit....

Steroid users, baseball: Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez became the poster boys for one of the most shameful periods in sports history, baseball's Steroids Era. Add your own asterisk to their stats.

2013-01-15 00:00:00

This is the cover of the Dec. 21, 1998 issue of Sports Illustrated featuring 1998 Sports Illustrated Sportsmen of the Year Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

2012-11-28 09:11:00

, pictured, left, Barry Larkin and Will Clark, won the silver medal. The Americans were defeated in the final by Japan, which included future seven-time Japanese league All-Star Yutaka Wada. Future Dodger pitcher Ramon Martinez pitched for the Dominican Republic.

2012-04-04 11:33:12