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Shohei Ohtani is flirting with the idea of playing the outfield this October.  The Dodgers’ two-way superstar, who hasn’t been penciled in as a position player since the 2021 season, said he was open to a position change if it helps his team this postseason. “I’ve had different conversations with different people, and of course that’s come up,” Ohtani told …

The Dodgers are getting pretty good at this whole “carry a no-hitter into the later innings and still lose” thing. Shohei Ohtani exited after five innings Tuesday night after not allowing a hit to the Phillies, only to see the first reliever surrender a four-run lead in a 9-6 home loss. This tough setback comes not long after Yoshinobu Yamamoto …

Dave Roberts described it as an easy decision. If only it hadn’t come with such disastrous consequences. In the middle of the fifth inning Tuesday night, Shohei Ohtani returned to the Dodgers’ dugout after a clean inning of work on the mound. Waiting for him at the top step was manager Dave Roberts, wanting to ask how he felt after …

BALTIMORE — In one corner of the room, Tanner Scott stared blankly into his locker, trying to come to grips with yet another game he let get away. Across from him, Dalton Rushing propped a pair of crutches under his arms, limping out of sight with the Dodgers’ latest injury. On the opposite wall, Freddie Freeman got dressed at his stall; taking …

I t was a round of poker, fittingly, that upended Mathew Bowyer’s life in spectacular fashion. While he preferred to sate his appetite for risk by playing baccarat, poker had served as his formative introduction to the pleasures and possibilities of gambling. Back in the early Nineties, as an enterprising high school student in Orange County, California, Bowyer ran a …

Ever since resuming two-way duties earlier this year, Shohei Ohtani had been throwing the ball well. It wasn’t until Wednesday, however, that he finally pitched like a frontline starter, too. Coming off his second career Tommy John surgery this year, Ohtani immediately lit up the radar gun with 100-mph fastballs and amassed gaudy strikeout totals with a devastating sweeper. In …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — V of K-pop sensation BTS threw the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on Monday night after meeting two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. After taking the mound, the singer bowed slightly in the direction of Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who then caught a strike from the left-hander. BTS fans screamed throughout V’s time on …

The Padres and Dodgers have a nice little rivalry going on. After this weekend’s three-game series, in which San Diego took two games, the teams are tied at the top of the NL West division with identical 74-57 records. After scoring two combined runs in the first two games of the series, the Dodgers treated Sunday’s finale as a palate …

As Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani celebrated his 45th home run of the season on the baseball field on Sunday, he made a quick pit-stop: jogging right up to a spectator who had been heckling him all afternoon. On his way back to the Dodgers’ dugout during the ninth inning of the game against the San Diego Padres, Ohtani …

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A heckler next to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout spent his entire Sunday giving an earful to the visitors, including a nonstop barrage of digs and chirps at Shohei Ohtani for his hitless performance in a portentous weekend series against the San Diego Padres. When Ohtani crushed his 45th homer and delivered the knockout blow in …