Full Coverage: World Series: Dodgers vs. Astros
The Astros took a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven World Series by beating the Dodgers, 13-12, in a wild, 10-inning game Sunday in Houston.
The Series returns to Los Angeles on Tuesday for Game 6 at Dodger Stadium.
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Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Los Angeles Mitchell.
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The words were simple, but Yu Darvish found the sentiment behind them to be particularly heartwarming.
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Dodger Stadium has played host to a Pope and the Kings.
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Los Angeles has been waiting for this day for 29 years.
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A dozen outs from the end of their season, pushed by a raucous Halloween crowd and fueled by their own desperation, the Dodgers dug deep.
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Dodger Stadium has staged concerts, soccer games, a Papal mass, even a bullfight.
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The closer lumbered down the stairs away from the diamond, three outs down, three more to go.
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There is a time to stand up for your teammates, for justice, for what you believe to be right.
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The ball popped off of Joc Pederson’s bat, a meandering missile headed for the first row of Dodger Stadium’s left-field pavilion.
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Dodgers vs. Astros World Series, Game 7 At Dodger Stadium, Wednesday TV: Fox.
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The World Series is driving you bonkers, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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For Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, running a game borders on a religious experience in that it’s an act of faith.
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The Dodgers will play Tuesday’s sixth game of the World Series with the implications of a loss obvious: Mess up, and their season’s over.
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Attending Game 6 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium?
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Weary, wounded and trailing in the World Series by a 3-2 margin, the Dodgers straggled onto a plane bound from Houston to Los Angeles in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Rich Hill will try to save the Dodgers’ season Tuesday, but not with the kind of World Series start that branded Sandy Koufax and Orel Hershiser as heroes in the lore of a storied franchise.
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Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen has made four appearances in the World Series and given up runs in the last three, marking the first time in his big-league career he has allowed runs in three consecutive appearances.
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Game 5 of the World Series might have crushed the spirits of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the team’s huge fan base, but the television ratings certainly cheered the brass at Fox Sports.
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Twenty-eight years ago, thanks to the efforts of a fan, the Los Angeles Dodgers quietly became a part of computer history.
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The sun was just beginning to rise when the Dodgers charter touched down at LAX early Monday.
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The baseballs are too slick, or maybe they are juiced, or maybe it’s both.
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This was his moment, his chance to reclaim championship glory for his franchise, his opportunity to rewrite his postseason legacy.
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They had a four-run lead. They had their best pitcher on the mound.
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Houston ace Justin Verlander, who is scheduled to start Game 6 on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, said he believes the baseballs being used in the World Series are slicker than those used during the regular season.
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The awkward October between the Dodgers and Adrian Gonzalez, their five-time all-star first baseman, took another turn over the weekend when manager Dave Roberts asked Gonzalez to spend the rest of the postseason as a spectator rather than a participant in pregame workouts and meetings.
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Houston vs. Dodgers World Series, Game 6 At Dodger Stadium, Tuesday, 5 p.m. TV: Fox.
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The world was watching when Yuli Gurriel made a racially charged gesture during Friday’s World Series game.
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The World Series, once a best-of-seven playoff, is now a best-of-three.
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When Cody Bellinger reached second base, he looked up into the Minute Maid Park ceiling and screamed, his hallelujahs spiraling skyward for a battling team, a thankful city, and a renewed World Series.
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Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Los Angeles Mitchell.
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Cody Bellinger skidded into second base like a kid on a slip-and-slide, a 22-year-old rookie enjoying the World Series for the first time in four games.
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Brandon Morrow might not have sold his soul for the chance to win a World Series title.
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He moves with a sway or a strut more than a walk.
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When Alex Wood emerged from the visiting clubhouse at Minute Maid Park on Saturday night, he was met by a party of some of the most important people in his life.
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Jason Chu, a rapper based in Los Angeles, was out with his wife on Friday when he saw his Twitter feed start to blow up.
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The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences.
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Dodgers vs. Astros World Series, Game 5 At Minute Maid Park, Houston, Sunday, 5 p.m. TV: Fox.
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Yuli Gurriel, one of the key hitters for the Houston Astros, was suspended for five games after television cameras caught him making a gesture and mouthing a word with racial overtones during Friday’s Game 3 of the World Series.
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Yuli Gurriel blasted a Yu Darvish fastball into the left-field stands at Minute Maid Park and social media went into a frenzy.
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This is one bad hangover.
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Carlos Beltran used to be a feared hitter, and years ago was a playoff nemesis of the Dodgers.
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Built like an airplane hangar, named after orange juice, the contours of Minute Maid Park evoke camp and claustrophobia.
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When Don Mattingly took his managerial talents to South Beach two winters ago, preferring a long-term contract with the Miami Marlins to a short-term deal to stay in Los Angeles, the Dodgers cleared out the coaching staff.
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A day later, the Houston Astros were still beaming.
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The Houston Astros have not played a game with Minute Maid Park’s retractable roof open since June 9.
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The exorcism of Game 2 of the World Series, a punishing 7-6 defeat that cost the Dodgers a chance to seize a two-game advantage over the Houston Astros, began a half hour after Yasiel Puig struck out to end the night.
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Yu Darvish will make his World Series debut on Friday for the Dodgers in Game 3 against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, but if you think he has waited his entire life for this moment, think again.
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Before stepping into Dodger Stadium this week, Norman Lloyd had attended one World Series. In 1926.
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It’s been an out-of-this-World Series for home runs, and only two games have been played.
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The Houston Astros have the Dodgers right where they want them Thursday: on a plane heading to Houston with the World Series tied at a game apiece.
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The first blast shocked. The second blast stunned. The third blast silenced.
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The result cannot be considered unthinkable, because October baseball expands the realm of possibility and exposes the soul to untold anguish.
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The game was won. By extension, the series was too. Only for the unthinkable to happen.
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Dodgers vs. Astros World Series, Game 3 At Minute Maid Park, Houston, Friday, 5 p.m.
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Dodgers utilityman Enrique Hernandez was a first-year professional ballplayer when he met Carlos Correa, and he remembers it well.
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Two days after returning from Italy, sidelined first baseman Adrian Gonzalez rejoined the Dodgers with plans of remaining with the team for the remainder of the World Series.
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All eyes turned to the Houston Astros’ bullpen. This line is not a setup.
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Tim Leary saw first-hand how quickly a World Series can change with one swing of the bat.
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Step up, and step back down soon.
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Corey Seager, in his return the Dodgers lineup in the World Series, has showed little rust after missing the National League Championship Series with a lower back sprain.
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The mention of Bud Selig does not usually inspire a warm and fuzzy feeling among baseball fans.
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Robert Medina pulled off his blue Dodgers cap to reveal a scar running along his scalp.
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When Chris Taylor steps into the batter’s box for the Dodgers at the start of Wednesday’s Game 2 of the World Series, expect Houston starter Justin Verlander to be very, very careful with his first pitch.
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Well, wow, that was hot.
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The most popular magazine cover at this year’s World Series is three years old: the Sports Illustrated cover that proclaimed the Houston Astros as “Your 2017 World Series Champs.”
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In 2014, that bygone era when Kyle was the best known of all the Seagers, his kid brother Corey played for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.
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The sun had started to set on Dodger Stadium as the trio left the bullpen, yet the 103-degree heat still clung to Chavez Ravine like a cloak.
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Clayton Kershaw steps with his right foot, turns his body, and pivots his left foot.
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In this world, in Justin Turner’s world, the pumpkin is still a carriage, the mice are still horses and the rags are still a jeweled gown.
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At 11:03 a.m. Tuesday, StubHub sent me a message.
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Dodgers vs. Astros World Series, Game 2 At Dodger Stadium, Wednesday, 5 p.m. TV: Fox.
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When Rick Honeycutt was a major league pitcher, he owned Barry Bonds, holding him to one hit in 12 at-bats.
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Could be the Dodgers’ strategy worked.
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Corey Seager expects to start at shortstop for the Dodgers on Tuesday in Game 1 of the World Series.
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As long and pronounced as the path has been, the Houston Astros’ ascent to the World Series has been expected.
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When I think about Kirk Gibson’s famous World Series home run, I don’t visualize Gibson pumping his fist or hear Vin Scully’s perfect call.
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The red light of a television camera beckoned, and so Yasiel Puig obliged.
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There had been a camera trained on Tommy Lasorda, no surprise to anyone who followed the Dodgers with even the slightest degree of interest.
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Verney Jansen pauses his Ford F250 pickup in front of a brown stucco house in a neat middle-class neighborhood of two- and three-bedroom cookie-cutter homes.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the best-of-seven World Series at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
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The Dodgers defeated the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs, four games to one, in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.
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The Dodgers swept the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Division Series.
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The Houston Astros defeated the Boston Red Sox three games to one in the best-of-five American League Division Series and the New York Yankees in seven games in the AL Championship Series.
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There will never be another Bulldog. If that wasn’t clear already, it is now.
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You’ve marveled at the swing, laughed at the brake lights, cheered with the fist pumps.
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Fifty feet from home plate, Jose Altuve’s bat hit ground.
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They came from all over dressed in Dodger blue. From Boyle Heights and Long Island, N.Y.
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After the Dodgers vanquished the Chicago Cubs on the way to their first World Series since 1988, the club’s brain trust was celebrating, not making immediate roster decisions.
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Mike Scioscia got a good look at this year’s Dodgers when the Angels team he manages played them to a draw in a four-game series in mid-summer, when the eventual National League champions were laying waste to the rest of baseball.
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The National League champion Dodgers still don’t know who they will play in the World Series, but now they at least know what time those games will begin.
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So this is what a Dodgers World Series team looks like.
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Clayton Kershaw climbed atop a plastic cooler and hoisted a green bottle of Korbel Brut.
