Mark Saxon is a staff writer for ESPNLosAngeles.com. He spent six years at the Orange County Register, and began his career at the Oakland Tribune, where he started an 11-year journey covering Major League Baseball. He has also covered colleges, including USC football and UCLA basketball.
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers shed a bit more light Thursday on the mysterious circumstances that made their closer unavailable to them as their bullpen was blowing a two-run, ninth-inning lead to the Colorado Rockies the night before.
