Here are the two key requirements in determining our region’s best local pro and college squads: Establish dominance and end ...

Clayton Kershaw further cemented himself into the record books Wednesday evening when earning his 3,000th career strikeout in ...

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Clayton Kershaw became the 20th pitcher, and fourth left-handed pitcher, to reach the career accomplishment of throwing 3000 ...

Sandy Koufax remains a Dodgers legend, but Bill Plaschke argues that Clayton Kershaw is the greatest pitcher in Dodgers ...

But there’s another metric that tends to gets overlooked until specific circumstances are brought up, and that is… longevity. In baseball, the go to example of time working against a player’s GOAT ...

Jucker also coached baseball — he knew of Koufax’s baseball skill — and Koufax went 3-1 with a 2.81 earned run average, 51 strikeouts and 30 walks in 32 innings pitched.

Sandy Koufax pitches during Game 7 of the 1965 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, Oct. 14, 1965, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis.

Sandy Koufax pitches during Game 7 of the 1965 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, Oct. 14, 1965, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis.

Sandy Koufax pitches during Game 7 of the 1965 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, Oct. 14, 1965, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis.

Sandy Koufax pitches during Game 7 of the 1965 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, Oct. 14, 1965, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis.