Jeff Kent News

Instead of smirking, sulking or blaming Milton Bradley, Jeff Kent gave Ali Landry a hug.

Dodger manager Joe Torre was peppered with various questions before the game against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday.

The Cardinals' Albert Pujols almost universally is deemed the most feared hitter in the National League, if not all of baseball.

A year ago, Jeff Kent couldn't have done this. He couldn't have thrown out the first pitch prior to a Missions game at Wolff Stadium, then spent the rest of the evening relaxing with his family in a private suite.

With Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus not expected to make his season debut until maybe Aug.

To understand just how much the Dodgers' chemistry has improved, consider the friendship between third baseman Casey Blake and center fielder Matt Kemp.

Having just completed the first third of their season, the Dodgers have the best record in the Major Leagues.

Find out more about Theo: Theo is a former Associate Production Manager for ESPN, where he produced Sunday Night Baseball among other nationally televised sporting events for ESPN and ABC Sports.

The Giants aren't hitting, which means Brian Sabean is taking a pounding. With a quarter of the season complete, the club's long-tenured general manager acknowledged what anyone reading the box scores could detect: The pitching has been sensational, the defense has done the job and the offense usually makes you want to glue your eyelids shut.

Baseball, it should be noted, sometimes works in mysterious ways - a fact that becomes evident in the list of the 100 greatest second basemen in major-league history.

This is the third and final article relating to ranking the decade's most lopsided trades.

Carlos Delgadoa TMs five RBI in the Metsa TM 7-3 victory over Pittsburgh moved him into 48th place on the all-time major-league list for RBI with 1,512. The veteran first baseman passed Mickey Mantle, who had 1,509 in his Hall of Fame career.

In 1989, there were maybe five fantasy second basemen worth drafting - Ryne Sandberg, Julio Franco, Steve Sax, Lou Whitaker and a young Roberto Alomar.

A play at the plate is one of the most exciting plays in baseball, so when there are two plays at the plate it's a real beer-spiller. Such was the case on Tuesday night, in the Padres-Giants game, when Adrian Gonzalez and Chase Headley of the Padres tried to score on a double off the right-field wall.

Even though the Dodgers had their Major League-best eight-game win streak broken in Tuesday's series opener against the Astros, manager Joe Torre thinks that neither the team's early-season success nor the streak-breaking loss will have any lingering effect on the players.

There is a new ballpark from which balls are flying out at a record pace. Home runs are jumping off the bats of both the home team and its opponents, much more so than in the team's road games, ... by Travis Nelson 3 reads Sports There is a new ballpark from which balls are flying out at a record pace.

Like Jeff Kent last summer, Orlando Hudson was initially defensive when asked about the benefits of hitting in front of Manny Ramirez .

Monday was the Dodgers' home opener. While every time the Dodgers open their beautiful stadium is special, Monday was the most special in recent memory.

I work as a produce manager at a grocery store. Today was a beautiful Monday in Santa Rosa.

Reporting from Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Manny Ramirez hit .476 in the Cactus League, but he said he still hasn't regained his rhythm at the plate.