The Latest Breaking News from Dave Roberts

LOS ANGELES — Ahead of the first matchup between Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner in almost five years, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts predicted the showdown would “bring out the best” in the two decorated left-handers.

LOS ANGELES — After ending the fifth inning with a swing-and-miss cutter, Dustin May skipped down the back of the mound and hung a confident left back toward the dugout.

LOS ANGELES — It was wet, cold and beautiful.

They lost their cornerstone, their shaggy leader, Justin Turner heading off to hated Boston.

PHOENIX — Freddie Freeman chose club over country Tuesday, the Dodgers first baseman pulling himself from Team Canada's World Baseball Classic game against Colombia because of a mild right hamstring injury rather than playing through the pain, a decision that wasn't as easy as it might have seemed.

There is the way Dustin May feels when he's on the mound, and there is the way the fiery Dodgers right-hander outwardly expresses it.

SURPRISE, Ariz. — As he’s done virtually every year since being drafted by the Royals in 2007, Danny Duffy last month checked into the very spring training complex from which he’s launched nearly every season for half his life now.

In all his baseball life, Miguel Vargas had never done anything like this.

There is only one Shohei Ohtani when it comes to multiplicity of greatness, but what Betts is doing deserves its own measure of wonder.

Dave Roberts has created one of the creepiest attractions that can have ever existed

PHOENIX — Of all the things the Dodgers have come to appreciate about Miguel Rojas this spring, two of the biggest have to do with his feet.