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The details in the divorce of Jamie and Frank McCourt have been the talk of the World Series.

Blanton gets Game 4 start Joe Blanton, seen after giving up an RBI single to James Loney of the Dodgers during the NLCS, will start Game 4 of the World Series for Philadelphia.

One thing the Dodgers have stressed under the current ownership is entertainment, and it sure looks like it will be an entertaining offseason.

The Los Angeles Times noted the Dodgers' offensive core should return almost entirely intact next season.

Jimmy Rollins #11 of the Philadelphia Phillies flips the ball to Chase Utley to force out James Loney #7 of the Los Angeles Dodgers on a fielder's choice hit by Ronnie Belliard #3 in the top of the eighth inning of Game Four of the NLCS during the 2009 MLB Playoffs at Citizens Bank Park on October 19, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Vicente Padilla reacts after giving up a three-run home run to Philadelphia Phillies' Jayson Werth during the first inning of Game 5 of the National League Championship baseball series Wednesday, Oct.

The Dodgers lost in the same place to the same team in the playoffs in 2008 and 2009, but this most recent one stung more for fans and players.

Reporting from New York - With the fight for ownership of the Dodgers expected to hit the courts this week, the commissioner's office is monitoring the proceedings but expecting little effect on the daily operations of the club.

A little more than eight months ago, when the Phillies gathered for Spring Training in Florida, they talked about creating something special in Philadelphia.

When the season started, the book on the Dodgers was that they had a lot of talent on the field, great young players and a talented bullpen - if they got enough good starting pitching, they could go a long way.

In 1983, former National League Rookie of the Year second baseman Steve Sax became so erratic with his throws to first base that fans behind the Dodgers dugout began wearing batting helmets.

What's transpired in Games 2 and 3 of the NLCS hasn't been what most expected. Not Dodgers hitters.

The National League's top offensive team during the regular season hadn't been much of a hit during the National League Championship Series.

Two at-bats in the first two innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series for Ryan Howard, and both ended with belly-flops, er, head-first slides.

Brad Lidge and the Philadelphia Phillies picked up where they left off a year ago against the Dodgers in the NL championship series.

The rest of us see a five-sided home plate, but Pedro Martinez - on a day like Friday when he reached back across nearly two decades to find his pitches - sees a canvas.

Pedro Martinez got the start for the Phillies in Game 2 against the Dodgers. Times writers Ben Shpigel and Billy Witz are providing updates on Game 2 of the Dodgers-Phillies National League Championship Series.

Posted by Anthony Stalter Nursing a 2-1 lead with two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the ninth, the Cardinals looked like they had Game 2 of the NLDS wrapped up, especially when Ryan Franklin got Dodgers first baseman James Loney to hit a routine line drive to left field.

He'd helped clinch the division a few days before, a six-inning shutdown of the Rockies.

Quick recap: Minus Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers rallied to take the final game, 5-3, in 10 innings after the Phillies had tied the game in the bottom of the ninth.