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In 1966, the Dodgers roared into the World Series, in search of their third championship in four years. This year’s Dodgers, a team with a pitching staff cobbled together more by improvisation than master plan, tied the Orioles’ record Sunday, completing a third consecutive shutout — the last two division series games against the San Diego Padres, and the NL …

Former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser throws out the first pitch before Game 5 of the 2018 World Series. Dodgers great Orel Hershiser has teamed up with a couple of professional musicians for a rendition of “We Three Kings” in which the World Series MVP pitcher does a bit of background singing but mostly reads Scripture. The classic song is performed …

He’ll be 65 soon, his hair is graying, he hasn’t officially pitched a baseball for nearly a quarter of a century. “I’ve watched a couple of innings from those games a couple of times, and it was surreal,” Hershiser said. “So here I am yelling, ‘Dick Dietz’ and my teammates are looking at me like, ‘What are you talking about?’” …

As velocity goes up and up, it might be time for MLB pitchers to knuckle down

Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro holds a knuckleball at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland on March 29, 2007. In an era where pitchers are trained to throw harder than ever, and hitters are trained to react accordingly, there ought to be a competitive advantage for a knuckleballer, throwing a pitch that Hall of Famer Willie Stargell compared …

Column: Kenley Jansen considers himself ‘a complete pitcher’ after adjusting to velocity drop

Gas continues to leak from the propane tank. “I feel like I’m a complete pitcher now,” Jansen said in an online videoconference. “I know I didn’t have my best season last year, so I’m not going to sit there at home and feel sorry for myself,” Jansen said. “No, I’m going to try to turn it around and put work …