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The Sports Xchange By Jerry Beach, The Sports Xchange Dodgers take small step against Mets NEW YORK -- The Los Angeles Dodgers, built during one of the splashiest spending sprees in baseball history, hope their fortunes began turning Thursday afternoon...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Mets 7, Dodgers 3 (10) Mets 7, Dodgers 3 (10): Jordany Valdespin crushed a walk-off grand slam with one out in the 10th inning to cap a comeback victory for New York. The Mets scored once in the ninth off Los Angeles closer...

The Sports Xchange By Jerry Beach, The Sports Xchange Mets 7, Dodgers 3 (10) NEW YORK -- Jordany Valdespin's grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning Wednesday night lifted the New York Mets to a dramatic and stunning 7-3 win over the Los Angeles...

(Fixes repeat in first par) April 24 (Sports Direct) - Highlights of Wednesday's Major League Baseball games. - - - Rays 3, Yankees 0 Alex Cobb allowed three hits in 8 1/3 strong innings and Ben Zobrist doubled in a pair of runs as Tampa Bay took...

And here the Dodgers were looking like they were going to bring in such a nice, little victory Wednesday. Instead of this: Allowing the Mets to tie the score with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and then watching reliever Josh Wall’s...

The Sports Xchange By Jerry Beach, The Sports Xchange Mets win on Valdespin's slam in 10th NEW YORK - Manager Terry Collins has penciled Jordany Valdespin in as the New York Mets' leadoff hitter seven times this season -- and just about every time, he'...

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Dodgers at Mets The Los Angeles Dodgers will have little time to get over a damaging loss when they wrap up a three-game series at the New York Mets on Thursday afternoon. The Dodgers held a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH The perception had become such accepted baseball wisdom that Dodgers manager Don Mattingly felt he needed to bring it up when he went to visit Carl Crawford in Houston last winter....

Clayton Kershaw is pitching like a man who expects to be perfect. And when he is not, he actually gets upset with himself. Kershaw needed to skirt with perfection Saturday night, making a lone run stand up for a 1-0 victory for the Dodgers over the...

The Dodgers were one desperate team Sunday in Baltimore. In the rotation, in the lineup, in those early standings and in spirit. Hours after learning Chad Billingsley’s elbow had flared up again and the Dodgers had placed him on the disabled list,...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH Right-hander Chad Billingsley was able to postpone Tommy John surgery -- but not avoid it. Billingsley will undergo the ligament-replacement procedure Wednesday in Los Angeles...

BALTIMORE — When Chad Billingsley was put on the 15-day disabled list Sunday because of pain in his throwing elbow, Manager Don Mattingly wondered if the former All-Star's season would end on an operating table. "It's hard not to think about it,"...