Jimmy Bramlett

Photo by cindyvazquez-zavala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Cleveland Indians defeat LA Angels 12-3. Angels pitching continued to get battered down on this Independence Day. Drowned by the 92-degree temperature topped with unbearable humidity, Ervin Santana wilted lasting only 1 1/3 innings before getting tagged for eight runs. LA Dodgers defeat Cincinnati Reds 4-1. The Dodgers now have a 1/2 game lead on the San Francisco Giants. Carlos Lee Aftermath. After...

According to Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times, the Clippers will be signing free agent guards Jamal Crawford and Chauncey Billups. According to Turner, Crawford will be signing a three-year, $15.7 million deal while Billups will sign a $4.3 incentive-laden deal for a season.

Kobe Bryant once said that Steve Nash is the best shooter in the NBA. Now Nash will be teaming up with Bryant as the Lakers and the Phoenix Suns agreed on a sign-and-trade deal.

For one day, at least, it felt like May again. You remember the days when the Dodgers didn't have Matt Kemp but still found ways to win. Well the Dodgers reached back into their old bag of tricks and came up with a seventh inning rally to secure the 3-1 comeback victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Photo by cindyvazquez-zavala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Cleveland Indians defeat LA Angels 9-5. What in the world has happened to Angel starter Dan Haren? For a fifth consecutive start he gave up four or more runs. It was death by paper cut for Haren. Shin-Soo Choo led off the bottom of the first with a triple and scored on a Jason Kipnis single. A Shelley Duncan sacrifice fly and and...

The Dodgers were ready to put their week from hell behind them, their semaine d'enfer, that saw them get shutout in five of six games before finally salvaging a win in a blooper-reel affair Sunday night against the Mets. But in their 4-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, la semaine is starting to turn into Une saison en enfer.

Milan Kundera notably bemoaned the unbearable lightness of being. To the contrary, the Dodgers have been dealing with the unbearable weight of their being. The injuries and the offensive ineptitude have been evident the last couple of weeks what with their 56 of 57 scoreless innings — the Dodgers yoke to bear. On Sunday the Dodgers finally came through with a 8-3 victory over the New York Mets, the exhilarating lightness entering their being.

With a 5-0 loss to Johan Santana and the New York Mets, the Dodgers have now been shutout in five of their last six games and scored in only one inning of their last 57 innings. This is an offensive futility of dead-ball era proportions.

Photo by cindyvazquez-zavala via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Toronto Blue Jays defeat LA Angels 7-5. Things were starting to go well for Angels starter Ervin Santana. He pitched a complete-game one-hitter against the Diamondbacks on the 16th and gave up only two earned runs in eight innings against the Dodgers in his previous start. Well that nice little streak came to an abrupt end in the fourth inning. With the Angels...

There are a lot of things happening for the Dodgers. - The Dodgers officially signed 21-year old Cuban outfield prospect Yasiel Puig to a seven-year contract that is reportedly worth $42 million.