Doug Mientkiewicz

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING|  Flandreau Quadrangular |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL|  Aberdeen Central at Watertown, 7:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Christian vs. Hitchcock-Tulare at Tulare, 6:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Roncalli vs. Mobridge-Pollock at...

Almost two months remain in the season andA.J. Pierzynskialready has a career high in home runs. Does that surprise you? Pierzynski insists he's not surprised. He says he called this shot during a spring training conversation with former Twins...

ST. PETERSBURG — If you read the programming note blog below this one, you saw where yours truly didn't make the trip to Omaha, Neb. with the Florida State Seminoles for this year's College World Series. (We do have two people there representing the...

1987 -- Ipswich's Shelly Gisi set a new record in the Class A 1,600-meter run and ran on a pair of record-setting relay teams to earn Athlete of the Meet honors at the Watoma Relays in Watertown. Gisi clipped more than two seconds off the 1,600-meter...

1986 - Mike Cutler had four hits, including two home runs and a double, to lead Claremont to a 13-8 amateur baseball victory over Aberdeen's Dahme Construction. 1991 - Scott Kusler will return as head boys' basketball coach at Aberdeen Roncalli. He...

If the Dodgers are about to sign Reed Johnson as their No. 4 outfielder, as Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com says is the case, I think you can firm up what we speculated about earlier this week: Ronnie Belliard will start......

Tony Jackson of ESPN.com/LA has a story on four free-agent candidates to be the Dodgers' fourth outfielder: Garret Anderson, Brian Giles, Gabe Gross and Reed Johnson. None of them really appeal to me a whole lot, not because Xavier Paul......

The Blake DeWitt train will have more stops before it reaches its intended destination. Ken Gurnick of MLB.com is reporting that Ronnie Belliard has re-signed with the Dodgers on an $825,000 deal. The Dodgers now find themselves with two right-handed-...

Based on reports by Ken Gurnick of MLB.com and Jon Heyman of SI.com, three more Dodgers have signed contracts for 2010: James Loney, $3.1 million (predicted: $3.5 million) Hong-Chih Kuo, $950,000 (predicted: $1.5 million) George Sherrill, $4.5 million...

The following worksheet reflects players under contract to the Dodgers for the coming season. This is not a prediction of the 2010 Opening Day roster. (Most of the dollar figures below are estimates to begin with, but feel free to......

Recent Dodger infielders Doug Mientkiewicz and Angel Berroa have signed minor-league contracts with the team and will have invitations to big-league camp at spring training, joining Justin Miller, John Lindsey, Prentice Redman, Francisco Felix, Juan...

Utility man Doug Mientkiewicz, who missed most of the 2009 season because of a dislocated shoulder, has re-signed with the Dodgers, agreeing to a minor-league contract that includes an invitation to spring training. The contract was similar to the one.......