Alexander: Dodgers’ Ryan Madson still has, um, electric stuff

LOS ANGELES — Ryan Madson knew exactly where he needed to go when a nerve irritation in his lower back threw him out of whack a month ago: To the same guys who saved his career four years before that.
While with Washington in August, Madson tried pitching through the discomfort of a lumbar nerve root irritation, with pain that affected not only his back but his right leg and hindered his ability to push off the rubber. He thought he could handle it, but when he gave up a walk-off gran