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All seemed calm after Dodgers’ loss to the Giants

By Helene Elliott
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The Times’ Baxter Holmes checked out the Dodger Stadium parking lots for signs of friction between Dodgers and Giants fans after the Dodgers’ 8-5 loss to the Giants on Wednesday night. The Giants are visiting Los Angeles for the first time since Giants fan Bryan Stow was brutally beaten in a parking lot after the season opener March 31.

Here’s Holmes’ report:

Beneath a nearly full moon on a chilly Wednesday night, dozens of black-and-white Los Angeles Police Department cruisers weaved through the Dodger Stadium parking lot with their red-and-blue lights blazing following the Giants’ 8-5 win over the Dodgers.

But they were met by a sparse gathering because most of the announced crowd of 30,421 had left earlier. The lots were mostly empty nearly 30 minutes after the game had ended. The cops stayed to keep the peace, but it was already well in place.

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-- Baxter Holmes and Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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