Prep sports roundup: Birmingham gets past El Camino Real
Birmingham baseball coach Matt Mowry doesn’t care about West Valley League championships. His focus is on City titles, having won five. His teams have never…
Prep baseball roundup: Jordan Kingston delivers shutout for Calabasas
Jordan Kingston of Calabasas turned in a top pitching performance Monday, limiting Camarillo to three hits while striking out four and walking one in the…
Santa Monica’s Jackson Klein records third straight shutout
Jackson Klein of Santa Monica didn’t throw his third consecutive no-hitter Friday. He had to settle for his third consecutive shutout. Klein gave up three…
Prep baseball roundup: Birmingham opens West Valley League with 1-0 win over Granada Hills
Matt Mowry has never won a West Valley League title as baseball coach at Birmingham. Could 2024 be different? The Patriots started league play Tuesday…
Can James Paxton deliver again? The Dodgers are counting on it
PHOENIX — His check-engine light was illuminated, and his gas gauge was nearing empty, but James Paxton had little choice but to ignore those warning signs…
Prep sports roundup: St. John Bosco digs deep to hold off Windward
It’s been a long, up-and-down basketball season for St. John Bosco. There have been missed opportunities. “We’ve had many opportunities,” sophomore guard Brandon McCoy said,…
Augie Lopez homers as Loyola hands La Salle its first loss
Loyola’s baseball team handed La Salle (7-1) its first defeat of the season Friday with a 5-2 victory. Donnie Morgan had two hits and two…
Harvard-Westlake’s Duncan Marsten dazzles on the mound
“Electrifying.” That was the word being used to describe the pitching of senior right-hander Duncan Marsten on Wednesday. He struck out the first six batters…
Mission League baseball opens with 2 ties because of darkness
The Mission League baseball season launched Tuesday with the usual drama that comes when with so many talented teams. And also the expected game stopped…
Contreras makes history with its first City Section soccer title
The Contreras High boys’ soccer team made history Friday, winning its first City Section championship with a 3-1 victory over Roybal in the Division IV…
How Gavin Stone is making a case for Dodgers rotation spot
Gavin Stone’s statistics tell one story about his rookie season. In his debut campaign last year, the Dodgers starting pitching prospect gave up 31 earned…
Westchester, Birmingham to play for City Open Division girls’ title
Mariah Blake wants another ring. She was a key figure on last season’s 29-2 Westchester girls’ basketball team that won the City Section Open Division…
Corona baseball receives more strong pitching in win over JSerra
No. 1-ranked Corona’s pitching staff is more than living up to expectations. Three games in, the Panthers have given up just two runs in 21…
Prep baseball: Devin Gonor dazzles in debut to help ECR beat Crespi
Calm, cool, collective and possessing a nasty changeup. That’s the best way to describe a dazzling varsity baseball debut for El Camino Real junior left-hander…
Dodgers decide to delay Walker Buehler’s start to season
As eager as Walker Buehler is to return from his second Tommy John surgery, the erstwhile Dodgers ace will have to wait at least an…
Reliever Robert Stephenson signs three-year deal with the Angels
The Angels have frustrated fans this winter with their inability to make a big splash through free agency or trade, but their signing of veteran…
How the Dodgers help pitchers turn their fortunes around
Alex Wood was preparing for his first full season with the Dodgers in 2016 when then-general manager Andrew Friedman approached him in the team’s spring-training…
MLB free agency: Shohei Ohtani is top player available. Here are the rest
The current baseball free-agent market is stocked with quality starting pitchers. Yet it’s a starter who can’t pitch until 2025 that could sign the largest…
Rob Manfred says World Series bullpen games are a problem
PHOENIX — The desire to optimize every facet of every inning of every game over almost everything across Major League Baseball front offices was the genesis…
Texas Rangers defeat Astros and advance to World Series
HOUSTON — Adolis García homered twice and drove in five runs as the Texas Rangers reached the World Series with an 11-4 blowout of the…