J.P. Howell

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH You could choose your metaphors wandering around the Dodgers clubhouse during their weekend series in San Francisco, which ended with Los Angeles falling to the Giants 4-3 Sunday....

The Sports Xchange By Dave Del Grande, The Sports Xchange Giants 10, Dodgers 9 (10) SAN FRANCISCO -- Pinch-hitter Guillermo Quiroz smacked a home run off Brandon League with one out in the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants overcame a seventh-run...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH Dodgers right hander Chad Billingsley admits, "I thought I was in the clear," when he got through spring training without any return of the elbow pain that was diagnosed as a...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH Less than three weeks after surgery to repair a fractured clavicle, Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke has begun a throwing program, giving reason for optimism about his return to...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH The story of the Dodgers' pitching has become part soap opera, part medical drama. The latest twists and turns involve left-handers Clayton Kershaw and Ted Lilly. Kershaw was...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH Cuban outfielder Yasiel Puig was the star of the Dodgers' spring training, batting .517 with three home runs and 11 RBIs in preseason games. But his unpolished skills on the field...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH Offensive production from the left side of the Dodgers' infield has been non-existent. But help might be on the way. Shortstop Hanley Ramirez began a minor-league injury-...

Now that was something of a letdown. The night after the Dodgers’ emotional victory over the San Diego Padres, they flew to Arizona and looked anything but inspired. They could not score a single run for Clayton Kershaw, wasting another strong...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Los Angeles Dodgers - INSIDE PITCH If the Dodgers' best-laid plans had come true, veteran lefty Ted Lilly would never have found his way back into their starting rotation. But injuries have sent three starting...

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 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....

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,...