LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers grabbed an early lead in the National League Division Series by winning Game 1 at home on Saturday night. Now, the Padres will hand the ball to Yu Darvish on Sunday evening, looking to secure a split at Dodger Stadium. Sound familiar? The setting is

LOS ANGELES -- An intentional walk with two strikes? That's not a move managers are usually willing to make, but Padres manager Mike Shildt tossed "the book" aside Saturday and strategized differently. He felt that way when it came to dealing with Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts during the pivotal three-run

LOS ANGELES -- All week long, the Dodgers talked about their attitude. Sure, mechanical adjustments and working through a five-day layoff were going to play a factor. But what the Dodgers said they needed to change was their intensity level. In their last two postseason appearances -- both of which

LOS ANGELES -- From the very first swing he took under the bright lights of the postseason, it was clear that Shohei Ohtani was intent on doing damage. When asked the day before if he was nervous about making his postseason debut, Ohtani didn't even wait for his interpreter, Will

LOS ANGELES -- The Padres are right back where they’ve spent the past six months: Trying to reel in the Dodgers. Hey, they’ve done it before.

The first day of the Division Series featured four thrilling games: If you chose wisely, you might just have watched baseball all day, without moving once. That’s a pretty good day.

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers had some decisions to make, particularly whether they would carry 12 or 13 pitchers for the National League Division Series against the Padres.

The Dodgers begin their quest for a World Series title on Saturday night as they host the Padres in NLDS Game 1. They will not have Clayton Kershaw available to help them on their journey.

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LOS ANGELES -- Replacing the injured Joe Musgrove will take a collective effort, the Padres have said. Their 26-man National League Division Series roster proves it.

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LOS ANGELES -- In March 2023, about nine months before the Dodgers signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a record-setting contract, L.A. catcher Austin Barnes got an up-close look at how the talented young arm would fare in a high-stakes situation. It was the semifinal round of the World Baseball Classic at

LOS ANGELES -- The Padres and Dodgers open their National League Division Series on Saturday night. Dylan Cease will be on the mound for San Diego in Game 1. He wasn't on the mound in Seoul when these two teams opened the 2024 MLB season in March. But, well, Cease

LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani is no stranger to lofty expectations and pressure. As a teenager, Ohtani was already expected to be the next great player to come out of Japan. That pressure followed him throughout his entire career in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league. It only grew when he

Every day throughout this postseason, I’ll be previewing the next day’s action, game-by-game, with the major storyline from each one. Here’s the top storyline from each of Saturday’s Division Series openers.

LOS ANGELES -- Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove's elbow injury proved significant. Not only will San Diego be without one of its best starters when facing the Dodgers in the National League Division Series, Musgrove is likely to miss the 2025 season because of a tear in his ulnar collateral ligament.

SAN DIEGO -- The 2024 Padres took the Dodgers to the wire in the National League West race, then romped in the Wild Card Series to earn a trip back to L.A. for the NLDS -- which begins Saturday night at Dodger Stadium.

For the fifth consecutive season, the Dodgers will have to get through a National League West foe in the NL Division Series. And for the third time in that span, that foe is the Padres. San Diego fell five games short of Los Angeles in the division standings this season

LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts was the hottest hitter on the planet for the first month of the season. When he returned from a fractured left hand in August, Betts also showed some of those flashes at the plate.

In last year’s National League Division Series, the 100-win Dodgers didn’t lose to the 84-win D-backs because of rust collected during the bye. It was largely because Arizona played well and neutralized the Dodgers' best bats – can’t forget to give credit to a team that made it to the

LOS ANGELES -- In a surprise move before the Dodgers’ workout Thursday, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman announced a switch in the starting rotation for the National League Division Series against the Padres. Right-hander Jack Flaherty was scheduled to pitch Game 1 on Saturday, with righty Yoshinobu Yamamoto set

LOS ANGELES -- While getting five days off before their first postseason game on Saturday does present its challenges, the Dodgers are thrilled to be able to rest given some of the injuries they had toward the end of the regular season. Freddie Freeman and Miguel Rojas have been key

LOS ANGELES -- Heading into the postseason, the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani needed to make a decision on whether or not the two-way star would take his rehab process to the next level by facing live hitters.

LOS ANGELES -- Since the expanded postseason field came into play before the 2022 season, no team has more experience navigating through the “bye week” than the Dodgers. After securing the best record in the Majors, Los Angeles will have a “bye” for the Wild Card Series for the third

With the Dodgers heading into a bye week before their postseason run begins on Saturday in the National League Division Series, MLB.com Dodgers beat reporter Juan Toribio held an Ask Me Anything on Reddit with Dodgers fans at r/dodgers. This mailbag features questions and answers from there. The full AMA