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Bill Madden: Braves have the edge on the Mets, now and into the winter

NEW YORK — Hard as it must be for the Citi Field faithful to accept the fact the Mets won 101 games, the second-most wins in their history, and still wound up as a wild card, there is this dose of hard reality: The Braves were simply a better team.

Tribune News Service

Is a World Series title the Dodgers' only definition of success? It depends who you ask.

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw wasn't sure how to answer the question.

Los Angeles Times

Jeff McNeil beats Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman to win batting title

NEW YORK — With Jeff McNeil leading the National League and the entire league with a .326 average, the Mets opted not to play their infielder/outfielder, instead letting him rest ahead of the postseason matchup against the San Diego Padres. As it turns out, he won the batting title anyway.

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Mets complete sweep of Nationals, finish season with 101 wins

NEW YORK — The Mets gave their fans plenty to cheer for in the regular-season finale at Citi Field on Wednesday night, routing the Washington Nationals 9-2 to complete the sweep and reach 101 wins.

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Dodgers put finishing touches on historic regular season with 111th win

LOS ANGELES — The 2022 season began with hyperbole about the Dodgers fielding one of the best teams ever.

The Orange County Register

SI:AM | Atlanta Looks Ready to Repeat

The Braves swept the Mets are looking like serious World Series contenders again.

Sports Illustrated

Dodgers come back to win on big night for Jaime Jarrin and Freddie Freeman

LOS ANGELES — How joyful. How fitting. With the Los Angeles Dodgers already having achieved nearly every conceivable regular-season goal — and adding victory No. 110 by the end of the night — Saturday provided an opportunity to honor a broadcaster employed by the franchise for 64 years and a…

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Cardinals vet Wainwright's September slump persists; Dodgers clinch top seed

LOS ANGELES — As the Cardinals inch nearer a playoff berth, they have a few questions they must yet confront before October arrives.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Amid October pitching questions, Dodgers find ‘right lanes’ in win over Cardinals

LOS ANGELES — It was a straightforward game conducted with a straightforward pitching plan.

Los Angeles Times

Mookie Betts’ pinch-hit, walk-off single lifts Dodgers past Dbacks

LOS ANGELES — Four hours before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 Thursday on a walk-off hit by Mookie Betts, the eyes of everyone in blue were riveted on the Dodger Stadium pitcher’s mound.

Los Angeles Times

Flat Dodgers fumble their way to a doubleheader split with the Diamondbacks

The Dodgers lurched through a doubleheader Tuesday of two oddly similar games with starkly different outcomes.

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers clinch 1st-round bye with win over Diamondbacks

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.

Los Angeles Times

On wet, windy day at Oracle Park, SF Giants wrap equally dreary season series with 15th loss to Dodgers

SAN FRANCISCO — The rain came, the Giants rallied, but nothing could delay the inevitable.

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Dodgers clinch NL West for 9th time in 10 seasons in win over Diamondbacks

Last year, they chased the San Francisco Giants in vain until the final day, falling a game short of a division title and victim to an arduous postseason path as a lower-seeded wild card team.

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Dodgers pounce on Snell for first time, trounce Padres again

SAN DIEGO — It happened again to Blake Snell, and it happened again to the Padres.

Tribune News Service

Radio host Doug Gottlieb admits ‘no credible basis’ for claims about Freddie Freeman contract talks

Always double-check your sources, kids.

The Orange County Register

Dodgers rally for four runs in eighth inning to beat the Giants

LOS ANGELES – It was a rake n’ bake series.

Sports Illustrated

Sports Radio Host Issues Retraction About Freddie Freeman, Agent

Doug Gottlieb claimed that the first baseman wasn’t informed of the Braves’ final offer before leaving for the Dodgers.

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Miami Herald

Pablo Lopez turning corner, but Marlins do not in another extra-inning loss to Dodgers

MIAMI — After struggling to find consistency for over two months, Pablo Lopez may finally be turning the corner.

Los Angeles Times

For Dodgers’ Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman, playing every day is part of the deal

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman, working stiff? The moniker would hardly seem to apply to a guy who makes $27 million a year, flies charter, stays in five-star hotels and receives $100 per diem on the road while playing baseball for a living.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Plaschke: Chasing record wins, red-hot Dodgers need to play it cool

LOS ANGELES — It feels weird issuing this plea to a baseball team bullying its way toward historic ground, but, sorry, somebody has to say it.

Tribune News Service

Mark Bradley: Can the Braves find room for both Ozzie Albies and Vaughn Grissom?

The Braves have a 25-year-old second baseman who’s a two-time All-Star and who’s under a not-lavish contract through 2027. They have an even younger second baseman who, through 14 big-league games, has an OPS of 1.123 and a batting average of .420. The former is Ozzie Albies, who’s rehabbing a…

Los Angeles Times

Theft on the rise: How the Dodgers became baseball's improbable men of steal

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers' preferred method of offense is to bludgeon opponents with a loaded lineup of power hitters proficient at working counts, hunting mistakes and giving themselves self-congratulatory taps on their helmets as they circle the bases.

The Orange County Register

Trayce Thompson drives in 4 runs as Dodgers pound Brewers

LOS ANGELES — Unless that Cash Considerations fella turns into an All-Star, this is going to go down as one very lopsided trade.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernández: Dodgers' destruction of Sandy Alcantara isn't a fluke. This team can hit good pitching.

This game that didn't count for much, this midsummer game against another overmatched and underfunded opponent, was also a statement game.

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