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With the Dodgers about to play the Braves, we look back at a third baseman who played for only those two teams, but in Brooklyn and Boston over a century ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mookie Betts is on the injured list with a broken rib, and is expected to miss at least two weeks. It comes at an interesting time for the Dodgers, who will need to reduce to 13 pitchers on Monday and bring up an extra position player on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recap of a rather weird week for the Dodgers, which included getting swept in San Francisco and Walker Buehler needing to miss three months with a flexor tendon strain. But Los Angeles is being kept afloat by the likes of Tony Gonsolin, and his resurgent season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dodgers pitcher Tyler Anderson took a no-hitter into the ninth inning before the Angels' Shohei Ohtani, the reigning American League MVP, broke it up with a triple. Anderson had to settle for another win in a resurgent season with Los Angeles, improving to 8-0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler is already on the injured list with a Grad 2 right flexor tendon strain. On Monday, he also had surgery to remove bone spurs in his right elbow, which he says won't affect his timetable for returning to the majors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look back at longtime outfielder, first baseman, and announcer Tom Paciorek, who started his playing career with the Dodgers, played in the majors for 18 seasons, and broadcasted games for another two decades after that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dodgers opening day starter Walker Buehler suffered an elbow injury and will be shut down for 6-8 weeks, putting his return this season in jeopardy. For now at least, it looks like he won't need surgery, which is a sliver of good news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Answering several Dodgers questions, like whether the team would use a six-man rotation once Andrew Heaney returns from the injured list, what's going on with Walker Buehler, what is Dellin Betances up to now, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that the Dodgers season is one-third over, we take guesses at some performances for the middle 54 games of the 2022 campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin is on the best run of his career, lowering his ERA to 1.58 through 11 starts, with a 7-0 record, making a bid to make the All-Star Game, which this year is in his home stadium in Los Angeles. That included six innings to beat the White Sox Wednesday in Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A single in the seventh inning on Tuesday night in Chicago was the 1,000th hit of Justin Turner's time with the Dodgers. That was one of the few highlights of the Dodgers' series-opening loss to the White Sox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look back at third baseman Ken McMullen, who started twice on opening day for the Dodgers and in between was involved in a pair of star-studded trades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recapping the four-game weekend series between the Dodgers and Mets, a split for the teams with the two best National League records. Plus, Clayton Kershaw makes a rehab start and is close to a return to the Los Angeles rotation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heading into the weekend with updates on several injured Dodgers. Kevin Pillar fractured his shoulder and will be out a while. Clayton Kershaw makes a minor league rehab start this weekend and could return next week. Max Muncy and Andrew Heaney are headed to Oklahoma City and could be back soon as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking back on the Dodgers' May, plus injury updates. But the most important thing is the MLB-wide glorious distraction that is the Tommy Pham vs. Joc Pederson fantasy football kerfuffle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look back at the incredible May for Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts, which he carried over into June with a home run in his first game of the month. But it wasn't enough to prevent a sweep at the hands of the Pirates at Dodger Stadium for the first time in 22 years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers lost two games in a row at Dodger Stadium to the Pirates, something that hadn't happened since 2016. After winning 23 of the last 25 meetings between the two teams, the Dodgers have dropped four of five games in 2022 to lose the season series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Pignatano, a Brooklyn native who debuted with his hometown Dodgers in 1957 and caught the final five innings of the last game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, died at age 92 in Florida. Here's a look back at his career, which included four years with the Dodgers and about 15 years as a coach across baseball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The True Blue LA podcast is branching out, and adding a weekday morning podcast that will run every Monday through Friday, called Leading Off with True Blue LA, hosted by Eric Stephen. We will bring you insights, analysis, interviews, and reaction to Dodgers news on a daily basis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dodgers are currently operating with four starting pitchers and a series of fill-ins while Clayton Kershaw and Andrew Heaney rehab their injuries. What that means for the next few weeks, especially with active rosters reducing to a 13-pitcher limit beginning Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices