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Former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías will not be charged with a felony by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, according to a document filed Tuesday, stemming from his arrest last September on suspicion of domestic violence.According to the office’s charge evaluation worksheet, Urías on the night he was arrested was engaged in an argument with his wife when he “pushed against a fence and pulled her by the hair or shoulders.” The document, however, stated, “neither the Victim’s injuries nor the Defendant’s…

New Dodger phenomenon Shohei Ohtani played Santa for a fellow player’s family Friday, gifting a new sports car to Ashley Kelly for her tongue-in-cheek campaign to lure him to the Dodgers by offering Ohtani her husband’s jersey number.Kelly is married to relief pitcher Joe Kelly, who wore No. 17 — the same number Ohtani wore in all six years of his Major League Baseball career with the Angels, where he earned two American League MVP awards and became a two-way phenomenon as a pitcher and a slugger.As Ohtani mulled his…

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. The Dodgers got knocked around by the surging St. Louis Cardinals, and now move on to play Atlanta (best record in NL) and Tampa Bay (best record in baseball). If you have a strong throwing arm and think you can last for five innings or so, you might want to give the Dodgers a call. Julio Urías, after getting rocked in his last start, is the latest to head to the injured list. Let’s take a look at the starting rotation:Clayton Kershaw,…

The Dodgers severed ties with Trevor Bauer on Friday, preferring to pay him to go away rather than to pay him to pitch for their team.Bauer, who has served the longest suspension ever assessed for violating baseball’s policy on sexual assault and domestic violence, was eligible to rejoin the Dodgers for the third and final year of his three-year, $102-million contract.Instead, the Dodgers released him, paying out the remaining $22.5 million on the contract. If Bauer pitches for another major league team this season, the…

Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, right, speaks with Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.(Carlos Osorio / Associated Press) Urías accepted his 20-game suspension and apologized for what he called “inappropriate conduct.” Bauer became the first player to challenge a suspension under the policy and said: “In the strongest possible terms, I deny committing any violation of the league’s domestic violence & sexual assault policy.” Commissioner Rob Manfred and an independent…

Who’s your favorite baseball pitcher? Shane McClanahan? Sandy Alcantara? Justin Verlander? Whoever you said, two of the top sports-tech companies in the U.S. — Rapsodo and Trajekt Sports — have teamed up to build a robot version of them, and the results are reportedly uncannily accurate. Okay, so we’re not talking about walking-talking-pitching standalone robots, as great a sci-fi-tinged MLB ad as that would be. However, Rapsodo and Trajekt have combined their considerable powers to throw a slew of different…

We often think of plants as sedate, tranquil organisms that can't help but keep to themselves. But not all plants are harmless wallflowers.Carnivorous plants, as the name suggests, eat prey – mostly bugs, but also small animals, and other nutrient-rich matter.  While the whole idea seems vaguely nightmarish at first, these "ecologically unique" plants need our protection just like any other threatened organism; and we're still finding examples of these carnivores we've never even noticed before.In the latest such…