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By Monday, Charlie Manuel probably wasn't having all that much fun at the World Series.

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

Dodgers infielder Doug Mientkiewicz consoles catcher Russell Martin, who is the last to leave the dugout Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park after a 10-4 loss to the Phillies in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.Philadephia won the series, 4-1. The Lehigh Valley Data Center is your search site for crime, education and other public ...

The Dodgers had an exceptional season, but as management so delicately put it, a below-average final week.

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

Reporting from Philadelphia - The games were played so long ago that many of the players in the Dodgers clubhouse say they don't think they'll be of any significance in the coming days.

TOP OF THE THIRD INNING Furcal, 2-for-17 this series, grounds to second. Belliard pops to short.

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.

Dodgers infielder Doug Mientkiewicz consoles catcher Russell Martin, who is the last to leave the dugout Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park after a 10-4 loss to the Phillies in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.Philadephia won the series, 4-1.

Ramirez says he was showering and missed the Dodgers' late collapse in Game 4. He should have been in the dugout, period.

The 1913 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies used a total of three pitchers -- Chief Bender, Joe Bush and Eddie Plank -- to beat the New York Giants in five games.

After watching his team get soundly beaten by the Phillies, 11-0, in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday, Dodgers manager Joe Torre looked on the bright side of things.

Some of the highs and lows of watching Dodgers-Phillies Game 1: Say hey TBS play-by-play man Chip Caray began with, "As Yogi Berra would say, Deja vu all over again." Because the Dodgers were playing the Phillies, same as last year.

Drop is not a word a catcher would want his name associated with. Or one would think.

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.

The home team was trailing, but the crowd at Dodger Stadium felt it was the right moment to unleash one of its loudest cheers of the game on Thursday.

Philadelphia Phillies' Carlos Ruiz hits a three-run home run as Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Russell Martin watches during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the National League Championship baseball series Thursday, Oct.

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

TOP OF THE FOURTH INNING Belliard singles of the glove of Ryan. Martin is out on a chopper to third, Belliard moving to second.

Andre Ethier's home run Thursday was the Dodgers' 22nd in the playoffs since Mike Davis' crowning blast in Game 5 of the 1988 World Series.