Dodgers lose to drop into wild-card tie
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NL batting leader Freddy Sanchez matched a career high with four hits, Shawn Chacon outpitched Greg Maddux, and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the spoiler's role again Wednesday night, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4.
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(Sports Network) - The Dodgers hope to avoid being swept by the St. Louis Cardinals, as they head into Game 3 of their National League Division Series today.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers turned the baseball adage around Thursday. The walks that will haunt them are the ones they received and didn&#39;t get home.
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Jeff Kent homered to lead off the ninth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 Saturday night.
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(Sports Network) - Time is running short on the Padres in their attempt to claim the NL wild card spot. San Diego has lost five of its last six contests and is now 2 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants for the wild card.
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The Dodgers won the game Tuesday night, but only after losing Milton Bradley to ejection in a 5-4 comeback victory over Colorado. Bradley dropped pinch-hitter Mark Sweeney&#39;s
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Ramon Vazquez and Ramon Hernandez each hit a three-run homer for the San Diego Padres, and Adam Eaton beat Los Angeles for the fourth time this season in a 9-4 victory Tuesday night that cut the Dodgers' NL West lead to 1 1/2 games over San Francisco.
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Jeromy Burnitz's RBI single with one out in the ninth inning sparked a three-run rally, and the Colorado Rockies beat host Los Angeles, 4-1, last night to slow the Dodgers' drive to their first playoff berth in eight years.
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Russell Martin scored the go-ahead run on Mike Stanton's wild pitch in the ninth inning after pinch-hitter Olmedo Saenz singled in the tying run, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3 Friday night to tie San Diego for the NL West lead.
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(Sports Network) - The San Diego Padres try to move closer to the wild card and NL West lead as they conclude a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight from Petco Park.
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The Philadelphia Phillies beat the   Chicago Cubs 6-2 on Wednesday to claim a share of the National   League wild card lead with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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LOS ANGELES: San Francisco have denied the Los Angeles Dodgers a division title, with a 4-2 Major League Baseball triumph that kept the Giants in the thick of the National League playoff race.
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Missing two injured outfielders, the San Diego Padres lost their fourth straight game Monday night &#151; and sole possession of the wild-card lead.
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SAN DIEGO - Edgardo Alfonzo's two-run double capped a six-run rally in the fourth inning, and the San Francisco Giants tied the Chicago Cubs for the wild-card lead by beating San Diego 7-5 on Tuesday night.    The Giants remained three games behind NL West leader Los Angeles after the Dodgers' 5-4 comeback victory against Colorado...
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San Diego's offense was missing in the first game of an important series against Los Angeles. It showed up in a big way Saturday night. Mike Cameron, Todd Walker and Adrian Gonzalez each hit two-run homers during an eight-run outburst in the third inning of an 11-2 victory that shaved the Dodgers' NL West lead back to one-half game.
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The National League wild-card race got even tighter over the weekend, with the Chicago Cubs and San Diego tied for the lead and San Francisco less than one percentage point behind.
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Jeff Suppan pitches seven strong innings and Albert Pujols drives in four runs to eliminate the Dodgers from the postseason with a 6-2 win on Sunday.