Ten potential ownership groups hoping to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers have advanced to the second round of bidding, a source close to the situation said Friday night on condition of anonymity.

The Blackstone Group, the global investment firm that is handling the sale of the club for outgoing owner Frank McCourt, completed the narrowing down of prospective buyers following the first round of bidding, which took place on Monday, and was hoping to notify each bidder by the end of the night as to whether they had advanced.

One bidder no longer in the running is a group headed by former Dodgers Orel Hershiser and Steve Garvey, a source with knowledge of the process said Saturday.