Slumping Dodgers refuse to press panic button

Los Angeles ended its skid Saturday in a ​tight 2-1 victory before falling 4-2 to the Diamondbacks to close out a 1-5 trip Sunday. The ‌Dodgers are ‌11-17 since July 5.

Freddie Freeman was the one who tried hardest to calm the waters. In the wake of a loss Wednesday at Wrigley Field, which extended the Dodgers’ season-long losing streak to six games after back-to-back sweeps by the Cubs and Red Sox, Freeman first downplayed the severity of a hand injury that had knocked him out...