Manny being Manny may include more violence than previously thought. The former outfielder for the Dodgers was arrested yesterday in Florida after his wife told police that he hit her across the face with an open palm, reports NBC LA. Juliana Ramirez told police that she and Manny were on their bed at about 4:30 p.m. when they started arguing and he hit her in the face, sending her head into the headboard. more ›

On Friday Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said that the Dodgers would not be inclined to deal away key players while the Dodgers were in playoff contention. He also said that outfielder Manny Ramirez was crucial in the Dodgers making the postseason. Today it was officially announced that the Chicago White Sox would get Ramirez in a straight waiver deal. more ›

The Dodgers have made it official via a press release. Manny Ramirez was sent to the Chicago White Sox in a straight waiver claim. The White Sox will take on the remaining $3.8 million left on Ramirez's contract, and the Dodgers receive nothing. more ›

LA Dodgers defeat Milwaukee Brewers 5-4. The Dodgers responded to the Brewers three-run bottom of the fourth inning right away by getting three runs for themselves in the top of the fifth. While Andre Ethier hit a solo homer off of Brewers’ starter and former Dodger Randy Wolf (L, 10-10) in the third inning to start off the scoring, the story for the Dodgers was their doubles. Manny Ramirez and Ryan Theriot hit two apiece while James Loney and Casey Blake hit one each to help back Hiroki Kuorda (W, 9-11) who went seven innings giving up the four Brewers runs. Jonathan Broxton pitched a perfect eighth inning and a combination of Ronald Belisario, George Sherrill and Octavio Dotel (S, 22) pitched a perfect ninth. The Dodgers are now 3-0 with Manny Ramirez in the starting lineup and are a manageable 5 ½ games back in the wild card race. more ›

Putting it politely, the Dodgers have been offensively challenged since the All-Star break. For one night, at least, the Dodgers bucked that trend doing all the kicking of Cincinnati Reds’ starter Johnny Cueto (L, 11-4) by belting four solo homers off of him en route to an 8-5 victory. “Four home runs - that certainly came out of nowhere,” Torre said. “We knew it was in there somewhere.” After hitting back-to-back homers only once this season when Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier did it in the first inning in a game against the San Francisco Giants on April 16, the Dodgers did it twice: Ryan Theriot and Ethier in the second inning, and Jay Gibbons and Kemp in the third inning. more ›

As hinted at here yesterday, Manny Ramirez will make his return tonight against the Cincinnati Reds in left field. more ›

The return of Manny Ramirez is imminent. And by imminent it means he may be back on the team tomorrow. more ›

The Garret Anderson era for the Los Angeles Dodgers is over. The Dodgers designated Anderson for assignment and brought up outfielder and first baseman Jay Gibbons from Class-AAA Albuquerque. more ›

The Washington Nationals first baseman slugger Adam Dunn was claimed off of waivers this afternoon by an unknown team. The Nationals placed Dunn on waivers Tuesday afternoon Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle confirmed that the Giants were not that team that claimed Dunn. Schulman went on to speculate that the Dodgers were the team to claim Dunn, however nothing has been confirmed. It is typical of teams not to acknowledge any impending waiver wire transactions until they have been completed. more ›

The Dodgers have put outfielder Manny Ramirez on the 15-day disabled list for the third time this season. This time the 38-year old has suffered a significant strain in his right calf as manager Joe Torre characterized it though it shouldn’t keep him out for the remainder of the season. more ›

The Dodgers had a brutal weekend in St. Louis getting swept in four games for the first time since 1987 by the Cardinals. more ›

LA Angels defeat Texas Rangers 2-1. The Angels yet again got on the board in the first inning Howie Kendrick doubled in lead-off hitter Erick Aybar, but after that it was a whole bunch of nothing. A pitchers’ duel emerged between the Rangers’ CJ Wilson and the Angels’ Jered Weaver as they staved off the other team. It wasn’t an NL West type of pitchers’ duel where it was 1-2-3-strike out. It took a lot of pitches... more ›

Both teams quickly forgot about last night’s low scoring pitcher’s duel as the Dodgers walloped the Yankees 9 - 4 in front of a capacity crowd of 56,000 at Dodger Stadium, many home fans waving towels as though the playoffs were here. more ›

Bad pitching by both teams helped drag the game as if this was a Yankees-Red Sox game. At the end of this three hour, forty-eight minute hit-fest it was the Padres who stood on top 10-5. The teams combined for 26 hits and left 22 runners on base. more ›

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros 7 - 3 on Andre Ethier Bobblehead Night in front of a sell out crowd of 55,662 to extend the longest current winning streak in Major League Baseball to nine games and sweep the two game Astros series. more ›

Los Angeles Dodgers’ knuckleball pitcher Charlie Haeger had a rough day at the office. At least it was quick. more ›

This afternoon at Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers (5-6) achieved the second half of that old ballpark saying: “you win some, you lose some.” Two-time Cy Young winner/Longhair, San Franco Giant Tim Lincecum did what he usually does, and gutted the Dodgers bats in front of 44,734. In six scoreless innings Lincecum (3-0) allowed just four hits and seven strikeouts. more ›

A split squad of Los Angeles Dodgers tied a three game series against the Chinese Professional Baseball League All-Stars in Taiwan this weekend. The middle game was rained out (see photo above,) thus the even split of two games in three attempts. After a 11-1 victory, the Dodgers now travel back to Arizona to reunite with the other half of the team. more ›

Diamond Leung still loves baseball and journalism. But you'd understand if he didn't. After five years at the Riverside-Press Enterprise, two of those as the Dodgers beat writer, Leung, 27, was laid off from his post after the paper eliminated most of its baseball coverage. The San Francisco native and UCLA grad, at right, moved back to his hometown and did what any young, self respecting unemployed baseball lover would do: start a blog. The aptly named Diamond Notes is a baseball news source that aggregates some of the more interesting finds others may miss. We caught up with him yesterday, touching on the Dodgers diminishing World Series hopes, life after journalism and why he doesn't watch baseball on T.V. more ›

Dodgers manager Joe Torre made sure that his team would not suffer a letdown after their miraculous 3-2 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals in game two of the National League Divisional Series. more ›

For the second consecutive season the Dodgers sweep an NL Central team in the National League Divisional Series - this season the Cardinals played the role of the victim losing 5-1 in game three. Although Matt Kemp had a golden sombrero (four strikeouts), Manny Ramirez and Andre Ethier went 3-for-5 each. Manny knocked in two RBI while Ethier was a single short of the cycle, hitting a two-run homer in the second inning. Dodgers starter Vicente Padilla threw a gem of a game shutting out the Cardinals for seven innings giving up only four hits and a walk while striking out four. The Dodgers now face the winner of the Philadelphia Phillies and Colorado Rockies series. more ›

The speculation of postseason rosters, pitching rotation and all that rot is over. October baseball has finally arrived for your Los Angeles Dodgers. The club is feeling confident but ready for a good fight. “I obviously know that it’s a tough task obviously going against a guy who probably was the frontrunner for the Cy Young,” game one starter Randy Wolf said Tuesday about going against St. Louis Cardinal’s ace Chris Carpenter. more ›

Seven of eight ESPN "experts" are picking the St. Louis Cardinals to beat the Dodgers. "Baseball Tonight" anchor Karl Ravech is even picking the Cardinals to sweep. The lone dissenter is Eric Neel who is picking the Dodgers in five. I don't get it. Starting Wednesday a new season will begin. What happened in the regular season is irrelevant. So while most people are picking the Cardinals to win because they won the season series 5-2, it means nothing. Just because Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright looked indomitable, it's just hogwash. more ›

Usually weekday afternoon games are sparsely attended. But the Dodgers made a brilliant marketing decision to give away Manny Ramirez bobbleheads at the game leading to an explosion of humanity. In fact 53,193 people showed up to witness the Dodgers sweep the three-game series from the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1, the seventh sell out of the season for the Dodgers. It’s the largest weekday non-Opening Day day game in Dodger history. more ›

It was supposed to be an easy week at Chavez-Ravine. The NL West’s two cellar-dwells were coming to face the Dodgers for seven games. more ›

Last night after the game, I was listening to Dodger Talk with co-hosts Ken Levine and Josh Suchon. I was trying to get any added insight to the retaliation pitch Dodger reliever Guillermo Mota bounced off of Milwaukee Brewer Prince Fielder’s sizable gut. During the broadcast, a caller shifted gears and asked the hosts, “Why doesn’t Manny wear his custom mouthguard anymore?” I knew the answer and decided I’d call in. more ›

The Dodgers have added a fourth bobblehead giveaway on their 12:10 pm game on September 16 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. As a tribute to Manny Ramirez hitting a pinch-hit grand slam on on July 22 on his bobblehead night that gave the Dodgers a 6-2 lead over the Cincinnati Reds, the Dodgers will be giving away a bobblehead of Manny tipping his cap to the fans. more ›

The story is as old as baseball itself -- Dreadlocked Slugger moves to Hollywood... Dreadlocked Slugger earns suspension for female fertility drug use... Dreadlocked Slugger returns. And... more ›