A look at The Times’ top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the ninth week of the season: Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. ORANGE LUTHERAN (16-3): Went 4-0, won Boras Classic championship game; 1 2. NORCO (18-2): Three-game series this week vs. Corona Santiago; 2 3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (17-4): Swept…
DENVER — Nobody’s perfect, not even the Dodgers. Their steamroll hit a speed bump as they squandered opportunities in Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Even the hottest of Dodgers’ hitters cooled off as the night did. Collectively, they went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left eight runners on base, including…
The Lakers aren’t the only team beginning the playoffs with an injured star. The Houston Rockets will be without Kevin Durant in Game 1 against the Lakers on Saturday, Houston coach Ime Udoka said, because of lingering soreness after Durant bumped knees in practice this week. The fifth-seeded Rockets hope Durant’s injury will be a…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Clippers’ season has come to an end but better than anyone expected. No consolation but a great job by head coach Tyronn Lue for guiding the Clippers from a disastrous 6-21 start and finishing with more than 40 wins. Coach Lue led the team, overcoming major obstacles throughout the season with a…
DENVER — The hottest team in baseball, the coldest game in franchise history. And a California kid on the mound, battling the inclement elements, this time beating the 35-degree chill. Last April, a deluge in Philadelphia derailed the Dodgers and Tyler Glasnow in a frustrating defeat against the Phillies. On Friday, in his first game at Coors…
Senior Jayden Rojas of Bell unleashed his best pitching performance of the season on Friday, giving up one hit and no walks while striking out 14 in a 1-0 win over Roosevelt. He also drove in the game’s only run with an RBI single in the fifth inning. Rojas retired the first 18 Roosevelt batters…
Garret Anderson, the often misunderstood and always lethal Angels slugger who starred in the 2002 World Series, has died of a heart attack. He was 53. Anderson’s most memorable moment was belting a decisive three-run double in Game 7 of the only World Series ever played by the Angels. Yet consistency over 17 seasons —…
The turn this Lakers’ season took, it should go down as one of the franchise’s great what-ifs, coulda-woulda-beens, we’ll-never-knows … Shared regret for a legion of Lakers fans who were, for the full 15-2 month of March, vibing with their team, screaming excitedly like 6-year-olds and riding hard on the MVP campaign trail for Luka…
The Kings looked nothing like a playoff team heading into the NHL’s trade deadline. They had lost six of their last eight games, had just fired their coach and had saw their second-leading scorer go down with a broken leg in the Olympic tournament. They were backing away from the playoffs, not heading toward them….
Bright lights, big stage, same LeBron. Unmoved by postseason pressure, superstar LeBron James said he doesn’t plan to change his preparation ahead of the Lakers’ playoff opener against the Houston Rockets on Saturday. Approaching his record-tying 19th postseason appearance, James has reason to believe in his well-established routine. “Nothing changes for me from the regular…
