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LA Times' Bill Shaikin is reporting the Angels are close to acquiring Tampa Bay Rays left-handed starter Scott Kazmir. In return the Rays will be getting minor league left-hander Alex Torres and infielder Matt Sweeney. Marc Tompkin of the St. Petersburg Times is reporting that an announcement will be made after the Rays game tonight. Kazmir, a 25-year old two time All Star with a 8-7 record and a 5.92 ERA, is due $8 million next season, $12 million in 2011 and a club option of $13.5 million in 2012.

San Francisco Giants defeat LA Dodgers 4-2 (10 innings). With Tim Lincecum starting for the Giants and the Dodgers countering with a string of bullpen pitchers, things didn't look good for the Dodgers. However the Dodgers hung in tight down 2-1 in the top of the ninth. After a questionable safe call to Rafael Furcal at first who then tagged up to second on Russell Martin's deep fly ball to center, Andre Ethier hit an RBI single to tie the game. But Guillermo Mota in the 10th inning would give up a two-run walk off to Juan Uribe (of all people) to give the Giants a win. In the fifth inning with Pablo Sandoval at the plate, Jame McDonald made a pitch inside. Sandoval took exception taking a couple of steps towards the mound pointing his bat at McDonald while yammering. Martin tried to get at Sandoval protecting his pitcher leading to a benches-clearing scuffle. Once order was restored no ejections were issued. By the way that pitch was called a strike.

LA Dodgers defeat San Francisco Giants 9-1. "It's all over at AT&T," Vin Scully proclaimed after Matt Kemp hit an Earl Weaver to give the Dodgers a 9-1 lead in the seventh inning. "Sorry, wrong number for the Giants." In the fifth inning with Rafael Furcal on first, Russell Martin hit a grounder up the middle fielded behind the back by Giants starter Joe Martinez. What looked like a sure double play was muffed by second baseman Eugenio Velez at second leaving both Furcal and Martin safe. Andre Ethier and Manny Ramirez would hit back-to-back doubles and James Loney would single in Manny giving the Dodgers a four-run inning. In the seventh inning Manny would hit a two-run homer and Kemp hit his three-run shot to deflate the sold out crowd in San Francisco. The Dodgers with this win break the streak of three straight losing series.

LA Dodgers defeat San Francisco Giants 4-2. Well if only the Dodgers could play the NL West all 162 games. Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda made only one mistake that Travis Ishikawa took out over the right field wall. The Dodgers took out their frustration in the fourth inning when with the bases loaded Matt Kemp hit a bases-clearing double. Mark Loretta would hit a single to score Kemp. All was quiet until the bottom of the ninth when Jonathan Broxton gave up a home run to Bengie Molina with on out then gave up a single to Randy Winn to bring up the tying run at the plate. But Fred Lewis would ground into a force out at second and Ryan Garko would ground to second to end the game. Before the game it was announced the Chad Billingsley was scratched from his start on Wednesday.

San Diego Padres defeat LA Dodgers 3-1. Ah the frustration of youth. Clayton Kershaw could not find the strike zone to save his life. He gave up three runs in his short 2 2/3 innings which in reality felt much longer. After giving up a Dodger run in the first inning thanks to shoddy defense behind him, Kevin Correia just kept getting the Dodgers hitters out picking them off like a sniper. While the Padres bullpen was shaky, they did just enough to prevent another Dodger run to score. As for Kershaw he's young. He'll be all right. As for the Dodgers they head to Dallas to face the Andruw Jones and the Texas Rangers in interleague play.

Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies 2-2 (bottom of 6th inning). There have been rainouts in the World Series before. But never before has a game been suspended in the World Series. Cole Hamels had managed to keep the Rays down to only one run until the top of the sixth inning when the Rays manufactured a run to tie the game. Although the commish Bud Selig promised that even if the Rays hadn't scored the tying run the game wouldn't have been called, it allowed the Rays to take a sigh of relief. Meanwhile the Phillies once again regressed to the team that couldn't get a hit with runners in scoring position. The final 2 1/2 innings will be played tonight at 5pm. The Phillies still lead the series 3-1.

LA Lakers defeat Charlotte Bobcats 102-98. Jordan Farmar led all Lakers scorers with 17 points in just 22 minutes played to help the Lakers squeak past the still-winless Bobcats. After trailing by six at half time and by as much as nine in the third quarter the Lakers started to clamp down on the Bobcats to get back into the game. With an Andrew Bynum slam dunk to open up the fourth quarter, the Lakers took their first lead since the first half. Although Pau Gasol and Bynum seem to be playing better together, they still have a lot of shore up. Scary moment happened in the second quarter when new Laker Josh Powell and Kobe Bryant both went up for a rebound and collided knees. Bryant landed awkwardly and hyperextended his knee. He will be day-to-day.

Colorado Avalanche defeat LA Kings 4-3. This game was lost in the second period when costly turnovers by the Kings led to three goals scored by the Avs. While the Kings offense is promising, they puck handling and defense needs to be shored up if they hope to make a playoff run. Thankfully it's only the fifth game in the season. Game highlights below.

It’s not that the Angels lacked offense in Game 1 Wednesday night in Anaheim, but like me at the end of every high school dance, they just couldn’t score. The Halos had 9 hits to Boston’s 8. However, their traditional small ball way of playing the game is not going to work against these guys…again. Hey, that’s why they went out and bagged Texiera from the Braves so they wouldn’t find themselves down a game, played at home, after finishing the season with the best record in baseball. But that was then, and this is October. Maybe someone should tell Vladimir Guerrero.

Colorado Rockies defeat LA Dodgers 4-3. Impatient hitting, bad bullpen and awful defense doesn't help any team to win games. On the Kamenetzky Brother's Purple, Gold and Blue podcast Wednesday morning, I said the Dodgers have to be wary about a tired bullpen. The bullpen has been making games more interesting than they needed to be lately, and it will be cause for concern if they continue to falter down the stretch. What more can be said about this game?

Colorado Rockies defeat LA Dodgers 8-3. This time last year the Rockies were seven games out of first place, and after late season sweeps of the Dodgers in two series last season they propelled themselves to nab the NL pennant. Although the circumstances are different this year, it's hard to not to make parallels. While the Dodgers pitching was nothing to write home about, the Dodgers at bats were just plain atrocious. No patience at all. And considering the Dodgers outhit the Rockies 11-10, that was just a poor performance by the Dodger bats. But it's just one game.

Tampa Bay Rays defeat LA Angels 6-4. It seemed conceivable at the beginning of the season that the Angels would be fighting for the best record in baseball with a team from the AL East in August. The inconceivable part of this is the team they are fighting with is the Tampa Bay Rays. The Angels went into St. Petersburg trying to withstand the Rays who had swept the series back in May at Tropicana Field and have won four of six in total from the Angels. Angel's starter Jon Garland giving up five runs in three innings is not the way to win in this sort of situation. Although the Angels had plenty of chances down the stretch to take the lead, the Rays' bullpen made the perfect pitches when needed. Now both teams will wait and see what happens with Tropical Storm Fay (not Fay Vincent) to see if they can play the next couple of games.

LA Dodgers defeat Houston Astros 4-1. They did it with pitching, defense, a squeeze play, power and the bullpen. Whodathunkit? Starter Hiroki Kuroda went seven scoreless innings in his first outing since coming off the disabled list, Luis Maza squeezed in a run in the fourth and Andre Ethier hit a solo shot in the fifth. Meanwhile the Dodgers sent start Clayton Kershaw back down to AA Jacksonville to make room for Kuroda. Hopefully he'll improve on his command. Also word has it the Nomar Garciaparra will be back soon to play shortstop. Though the funniest sentence according to the Dodgers.com piece says, "Garciaparra did not field any balls at short, but he did dive for a couple balls that went up the middle for singles."

As we mentioned earlier today, Los Angeles native Baron Davis is headed home and he's bringing his beard and 21 points per game with him. The former Crossroads School and UCLA standout came to a verbal agreement with the LA's other team, making the Clippers suddenly relevant and a playoff contender. Baron credits the community for his decision telling ESPN, "I'm happy with where I'm going. A big reason is because of the impact and the things that I can do going forward. I knew I could have done them here and created all kinds of good things and positive things in the community, and ultimately, me going home helps me make an impact on young kids." Elton Brand, who opted out Monday is expected to re-sign with the Clips for a hometown discount. Baron and Brand! Clipper Nation hasn't been this excited since the Red, White and Blue marched all the way into the second round of the playoffs in 2006.

Hey, did you hear something about gas prices being really high? There was something on the news and a little blurb on the inter-web the other day. So what can you do for dear ol' dad this Sunday that won't burn up your wallet and set your pants on fire like a liar, liar? Well, you can keep the car in the garage, jump on the Metrolink, and head down to Anaheim to see some hot interleague action as the Angels take on Chipper Jones (.414 BA, 15 HR) and the Atlanta Braves (32-35).

LA Angels defeat Tampa Bay Rays 4-2. Backed by homers by Gary Matthews Jr and Vladimir Guerrero and a timely two-run single by Maicer Izturis, John Lackey effectively shut down the Tampa Bay Rays giving up two runs on four hits with seven strikeouts. For the Rays, Scott Kazmir who had an ERA of 1.4 coming into the game gave up only six hits with ten strikeouts. But those three runs he gave up was too much to overcome.

LA Lakers defeat Boston Celtics 87-81. What an ugly game. Pau Gasol was Ga-soft again. Lamar Odom sat on the bench with foul trouble most of the game. So leave it up to Sasha Vujacic to take up the slack. With 20 points he was the only Laker not named Kobe Bryant to score double-digits. The Lakers were more aggressive as perfectly shown by Jordan Farmar in the second quarter. After getting pushed by 6'11" PJ Brown going after a rebound, 6'2" Farmar got into Brown's face. The Lakers defense also did a good job holding Paul Pierce to only six points. MVP of game two Leon Powe had only one point, and although Kevin Garnett got 13 points he yet again retreated to the perimeter. The Lakers now trail the Celtics two games to one.

Tampa Bay Rays defeat LA Angels 13-4. This Rays team is very good. The Rays got things started in the third inning with back-to-back-to-back homers by Evan Longoria, former Dodgers Willy Aybar and Dioner Navarro. The Angels would take the lead 4-3 in the bottom of the fourth, but the Rays came back in the top of fifth with five runs. The way the Rays are going, could a playoff appearance be in their future?

Utah Jazz over LA Lakers 123-115 (OT). With Kobe Bryant visibly affected by a strained back, the Lakers managed to tie the game at the end of regulation after being down by 12 with four minutes to go. But come overtime, the Lakers could not ride that momentum. The Jazz in a complete role reversal got to the line 45 times as opposed to 25 by the Lakers. The series is now tied 2-2 and returns to the Staples Center on Wednesday.

Houston Astros over LA Dodgers 5-0. For the third straight game the Dodger offense looked flat as the Astros were all over start Chad Billingsley who gave up all five runs in the first two innings. The only real positive for the Dodgers was their bullpen with Chan Ho Park pitching a shut out for three innings and Joe Beimel pitching a perfect ninth.

Utah Jazz defeats LA Lakers 104-99. There was a Carlos Boozer sighting in Salt Lake City. After being ineffective in the first two games at the Staples Center, Boozer woke up scoring 27 points with 20 rebounds while leading the way after the Lakers made a 6-0 run to get within three points at the end of the game. While the Jazz out-rebounded the Lakers yet again, the problem for the Lakers was turnovers. Giving the ball up 18 times is not going to win playoff games no matter who you are. It should be noted the Dodger crowd booed when highlights of the game were shown. In the second round of the playoffs the home team has won every game so far. The Lakers still lead the series two games to one.