Light-hitting Dodgers turn on the power
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The Dodgers seldom win with the long ball. They're a good hitting team, with an NL-leading .275 batting average heading into Tuesday night's game against Pittsburgh, but home runs are for teams such as the Reds, Phillies and Braves. Not the Dodgers.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are closing in on their first playoff berth in eight years, and they&#39;re not about to leave their chances to fate.
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Matt Kemp drove in the go-ahead run for the second game in a row, pulling the Los Angeles Dodgers back into a virtual tie for first place in the NL West.
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Matt Morris had every reason to believe he could dominate the Dodgers again. He&#39;d shut them out with a two-hitter last month -- so what if he&#39;d struggled down the stretch in the regular season?
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Hong-Chih Kuo (1-4) finally gets his first win of the season, blanking the Mets over six innings to lead the Dodgers to a 5-0 win Friday.
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Curt Schilling and Pedro Martinez are revved up. Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt are rarin&#39; to go. Baseball fans are ready, too. The shadows are getting longer, the leaves are starting to turn and pumpkins are showing up.
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When things looked bleak for the Los Angeles Dodgers, they found their power stroke. The Dodgers hit four consecutive homers in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the game, and Nomar Garciaparra's two-run drive in the 10th lifted Los Angeles to an 11-10 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday night.
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St. Louis Cardinals&#39; Albert Pujols (5) swings for a 3-run home run in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004, in Los Angeles.
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Brad Penny became the first starting pitcher to open a season 12-1 for the Dodgers since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and Matt Kemp's three-run homer keyed a comeback from a four-run deficit in an 8-6 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday.
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Bobby Abreu is starting to feel better at the plate. Albert Pujols has been feeling pretty good all season.
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Nomar Garciaparra and Rafael Furcal homered to help Hong-Chih Kuo get his first major league victory in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 5-0 win over the New York Mets on Friday night.
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The Philadelphia Phillies pounded the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching staff so handily that even starter J.D. Durbin got a few hits.
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The New York Mets get dynamic postseason debuts from Carlos Delgado and David Wright and hold off the Dodgers in the late innings to earn a 6-5 win.
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The Dodgers took a 3-0 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals after four innings in Game 3 of the NL division series on Saturday.
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At times, it seems as if the Los Angeles Dodgers throw a bunch of names up on a wall and keep the players whose names stick. Of course, if a team can win division titles with those players, it might not be a bad way of operating.
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Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols perfected their power strokes yesterday.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers were playing great while Nomar Garciaparra was on the disabled list.