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MLB: Newest Dodgers catcher overcomes inauspicious start at home, becomes productive in lineup.

Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was up to the challenge of facing Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Oswalt on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.

The Dodgers had to be feeling pretty good about themselves after building a four- game winning streak in Milwaukee and Colorado last week.

LOS ANGELES – Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt didn't want to take the risk associated with buying the Dodgers six years ago and only started representing herself as a co-owner last summer when her marriage was on the ropes, her estranged husband...

LOS ANGELES – Frank McCourt testified Wednesday that a mistake was caught that would have excluded the Dodgers as his separate property in a postnuptial agreement, but he couldn't remember who first noticed the purported error. McCourt, 57, said...

DENVER – The Manny Ramirez era in Los Angeles appears to have ended, not with a bang or a whimper, but an ejection. Shortly after the Dodgers' 10-5 loss to Colorado on Sunday — a game that saw Ramirez ejected one pitch into a pinch-hit at-bat —...

Text messages from press row…Frank and Jamie McCourt finally landed in court this week, but this entire season has been a trial for Dodgers fans. …

Frank McCourt testifies that Jamie McCourt repeatedly told him she wanted financial security and was adamant that she have no financial exposure when he was considering buying the team.The way Frank McCourt tells it, Jamie McCourt expressed her financial philosophy in the same words time and time again during a marriage that lasted nearly 30 years: "You can make a billion. You can lose a billion. I don't care. I just want my own nest egg."

The owner has struggled to obtain additional financing for the team, which was $433 million in debt as of last year. The red ink could hamper the Dodgers' ability to sign players.Since buying the Dodgers for $430 million six years ago, Frank McCourt has so heavily leveraged the team — $433 million in debt as of last year — that he has struggled to find additional financing.

On the third day of the trial to decide ownership of the team, McCourt says he planned to reduce payroll in his first two years as owner to help team restore its profitability.Frank McCourt confirmed Wednesday that he planned to substantially cut the Dodgers' player payroll during his first two years of ownership in order to help restore the team's profitability.

The season's a waste, but the trial to decide who owns the team continues to entertain.Day 3 of the Dodgers trial, and it's just me and Frank standing in the courthouse hallway after he's spent the entire day on the witness stand, and the first words he says to me are, "I just know we lost."

Roy Oswalt had the Dodgers by the scruff of the neck for 5 2/3 innings, sort of. He'd walked five (James Loney three times), and a two-base error by right fielder Jayson Werth allowed a runner to get to third. But he hadn't allowed a hit ... ... until Casey Blake singled with two out in the sixth to break up the no-hitter, on Oswalt's 102nd pitch of the day. Alas, all those baserunners have meant nothing so far. Oswalt and Philadelphia have a 2-0 lead going into the seventh.

Folks are still filing into Dodger Stadium, but the crowd for today's game against the Phillies is tiny. There were maybe 12,000 to 15,000 people in the ballpark, max, when Clayton Kershaw threw his first pitch to Jimmy Rollins (it was the second pitch, by the way, that Rollins hit into the pavilion). The parking lot roads were surprisingly unclogged in the last hour before the game started. Maybe it's the noon start that threw people off. Maybe Tuesday night's 8-4 Phillies victory was too discouraging, a sign that this club doesn't have a miracle finish in it. (Or maybe jobs and school have s...

For years, the Sept. 1 date for expansion of rosters nicely coincided with the end of the minor league season, allowing deserving prospects to come to the majors immediately. This year, Sept. 1 arrives with most minor league seasons still having a few regular season games left, which is why there were no roster reinforcements joining the Dodgers today and won' t be any until Friday, when the seasons are over. (The Phillies also are still going with 25 today as well.) Meanwhile, Ryan Theriot will get another day for his left knee to heal, with Ronnie Belliard back at second base for a second st...

Numbers are the boon and bane of baseball. No other sport offers such detailed statistical analysis. The data can be clearly insightful and minutely cumbersome. But no baseball numbers are so overwhelming, so eye-popping, so ridiculous, and yet ultimately so enlightening, as the ones emerging from the McCourts’ divorce trial. I can figure an ERA and OPS, but I can’t begin to fathom the inner workings of the financial shell game Frank and Jamie McCourt have designed. My favorite number is 867-5309, but doubt a call to Jenny is going to clear this baby up. I get this number though:...

Roy Oswalt's no-hit pitching through 5 2/3 innings and early home runs by Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino led the Philadelphia Phillies past the Dodgers, 5-1, on Wednesday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw was otherwise sharp, striking out 11 -- and striking out the side three times -- in his six innings of work. But with the Dodgers' offense shut down by Oswalt and able to score only one run against the Phillies' bullpen, the two home runs Kershaw surrendered were all Philadelphia needed. The loss dropped the Dodgers to 7 1/2 games behind the Phillies in...

Dodgers second baseman Ryan Theriot was scratched from the starting lineup for a second day Wednesday due to a sore left knee, with Ronnie Belliard again taking his place. Theriot "said it felt much better today, but I think with the off-day tomorrow . . . I’d just as soon sit him today," Manager Joe Torre said before the Dodgers closed their three-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies in a noon game at Dodger Stadium. Recently acquired from the Chicago Cubs, Theriot was hurt Monday night when the Phillies' Jayson Werth slid into him trying to break up an attempted...

The Dodgers are undergoing the biggest trial in team history, but that’s hardly the end to the team’s legal problems.Nothing is more important to the Dodgers than determining team ownership, but an investigation by the California attorney general’s office is hardly insignificant. But that’s what is happening, one more black mark on the McCourt ownership that hardly needs another. This one, though, is a real low. Not just another money-juggling act by the club but one that may have impacted a team charity in an unscrupulous manner. The attorney general’s office is investigating the compensation...

There's an angle of the McCourt divorce trial that I think has been underplayed. From The Days and Tweets of Molly Knight: To sum up (if Frank is losing): either Frank pays Jamie off and keeps team--which would be the sane thing--or Jamie wins and Frank spends 2 years appealing. And also: Whoever loses on MPA is likely to appeal. With the logjam in CA courts now, that could take up to 36 months, I'm told. Worst case, obvs. It could be a while just to get a decision on this trial from Judge Scott Gordon, if there is no settlement. Judge will have 90 days AFTER trial ends in late September to m...

White lies, little and giant, have always been part of baseball -- even the creation of the game is rooted in myth. But I can't remember a year since I've been following the Dodgers that seems as defined by misinformation as 2010. The tone was set last fall by Frank and Jamie McCourt as they prepared to do battle for ownership of the franchise, with the he said/she said battle positions flowering during numerous public revelations this year, leaving us with the bouquet of stinkweed at the trial that began this week. I'm not saying that someone's been trying to pull a lot of wool over someone'...

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