NLCS: Dodgers vs. Phillies; Phillies win series, 4-1
Dodgers vs. Phillies
Game 2: Dodgers 2, Phillies 1
Game 3: Phillies 11, Dodgers 0
Game 4: Phillies 5, Dodgers 4
Game 5: Phillies 10, Dodgers 4
October 22, 2009
BILL PLASCHKE
Bill Plaschke: In the end, Dodgers 'just didn't have what it takes'
They end up battered and bruised by Phillies for second year in a row, and must add to their pitching rotation if they have any hope of fulfilling promise everyone sees.
October 22, 2009
T.J. SIMERS
T.J. Simers: Squandering everything, just to end up the same as in '08
City officials spent the day greasing the light poles, street lights and nearby trees knowing Vicente Padilla was pitching for the Dodgers and the drunken uglies here would go stupid once the Phillies clinched the pennant.
October 21, 2009
BILL PLASCHKE
Bill Plaschke: Manny excuses for absence in the ninth just don't wash
Ramirez says he was showering and missed the Dodgers' late collapse in Game 4. He should have been in the dugout, period.
October 20, 2009
BILL PLASCHKE
Bill Plaschke: Broxton's past with Stairs is heartbreakingly present in Dodgers' loss
The closer appears spooked by the memory of giving up key homer in last year's NL Championship Series, walking him in Monday's Game 4 and setting up eventual game-winner for Philadelphia.
October 19, 2009
BILL PLASCHKE
Bill Plaschke: Dodgers pay again for whiffing on Cliff Lee
The Dodgers bungled an opportunity to acquire the Cy Young winner at the trade deadline. Instead he went to the Phillies, and on Sunday night he came back to haunt L.A. by pitching a Game 3 gem.
October 19, 2009
T.J. SIMERS
T.J. Simers: When the going gets tough for the Dodgers, he gets going
Mattingly says the L.A. media let the players off the hook, but no danger of that here . . . the 11-0 loss is an embarrassment with plenty of blame to go around.
October 19, 2009
A Freeway Series could be a ratings strikeout
Few outside L.A. area want the Angels and Dodgers in the World Series. For top ratings -- and reviving an old rivalry -- a Yankees-Dodgers matchup is the dream outside the Southland.
October 16, 2009
BILL PLASCHKE
Bill Plaschke: Joe Torre should have pulled Kershaw sooner
Manager says he has faith in the 21-year-old, but the pressure of the NLCS is different than a division-clinching game.
1:59 AM PDT, October 15, 2009
BASEBALL
Ross Newhan: It was almost the City of No Angels
Walter O'Malley reportedly didn't want a second team in Los Angeles, and he definitely wasn't a benevolent landlord to his American League tenants for four years.
October 14, 2009
JERRY CROWE
Jerry Crowe: Joe Torre will toast to that
Text messages from press row...
October 13, 2009
BILL DWYRE
Bill Dwyre: The onramp is open to a Dodger-Angels Freeway Series
With both teams in baseball's final four, that long-dreamed-about local matchup has become a tantalizing possibility.
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