To the editor: I've never written to the L.A. Times before. But after the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, I felt compelled to share a few thoughts about one of the nicest people I ever met. ("Why ...

Fernando Valenzuela has been traded to the Angels. I’m sure he will be a star there. Rest in peace. When I was hosting Dodger talk in the 1980s on KABC, I tried to be objective on the club’s play and ...

Fernando Valenzuela was part of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcast team from 2003 until he stepped away in Sept. 2024 to focus on his health. A month later, as the Dodgers prepared to ...

LOS ANGELES – Fernando Valenzuela died this week at 63 only two days before the 43rd anniversary of one of his most prolific games for the Los Angeles Dodgers – a 147-pitch, complete game victory over ...

Jorge Jarrín was engrossed in an important task Wednesday: scheduling interviews for his father, Jaime. The elder Jarrín, who was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame for his broadcasting career with ...

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. We interrupt the postseason with a sad newsletter. Fernando Valenzuela started pitching for the Dodgers at the end of ...

LOS ANGELES – Julia Mendez carefully positioned three candles in a row under a sign welcoming fans to Dodger Stadium. Then she pulled out a foil-wrapped burrito and rested it against the post. “I know ...

Sixty-two-year-old Dodger Stadium will host the World Series starting on Friday, but it will be a bittersweet day for fans, hosting the first Dodger game since the death of franchise icon Fernando ...

Fernando Valenzuela, the famed left-handed pitcher whose fairy-tale rookie season revitalized the connection between the Los Angeles Dodgers and their city’s Mexican American fanbase, died Tuesday at ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield was 0-for-3 in five plate appearances against Fernando Valenzuela in Game 3 of the 1981 World Series between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.