Tonight is Joe Kelly Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium, and the team celebrated by getting this mural painted on the Reserve Level near the escalator to the Top Deck. It’s a great image, and I hope this will be a great night, too. Like last night! We beat the Giants, 7-2, and Emmet Sheehan showed he’s ready for (at least four innings of) the postseason. Got my tickets, and I’m ready for October!
I know I haven’t written in a while, but, let’s be honest, the Dodgers haven’t done much to write about lately. And when they do show promise, it’s almost always squandered by what’s got to be the worst bullpen the Dodgers have EVER had!
I hate being negative. I want to BELIEVE so badly! (Thank you, Ted Lasso!) But it’s getting really hard to do it. I mean, seriously? With the sweep over the weekend, the dreaded Giants overtook us. Not for FIRST PLACE, mind you, but for SECOND! Arizona still has the top spot.
Let’s see how it goes with the smokin’-hot Angels tonight and tomorrow. Because the Cheaters (those a-holes from Houston) are coming to town on Friday.
But, I have to be honest. I’m not at all optimistic at this point.
Matt Kemp about to make the last out in the top of the ninth with two men on to save the Dodgers’ bacon.
OK. It’s official: The Dodgers are hot all of a sudden.
The way this season has been going, the fact that the Dodgers won their fourth in a row (for the first time this year) and advanced one game on every other loser in the division means the team is on roll.
The 6-5 win over the Giants was a nail-biter, huh? I stopped watching when they brought Brandon League in, because it’s kind of like watching “Of Mice and Men.” You know what’s going to happen, and it’s just too sad to think about.
“Brandon, as you know,” Vin Scully so gently put it, “has been through some frustrating times this year.”
So have us fans, but we have other beautiful things to remind us why we love the Dodgers: Scully himself, for one; Mark Ellis; Matt Kemp.
I feel so very sorry for Brandon League. He really does seem to want to excel, but something is making that not happen. He cannot pitch, and it would be very depressing to be a pitcher who cannot pitch. I just hope Don Mattingly will admit what all the fans already know. There is no scenario, except — maybe — a lead of 7-10 runs, in which League should be allowed to take the mound. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point, and it just makes it worse for everyone.
But on the bright side, we won! We beat the Giants! We took the series! Clayton K-K-K-Kershaw is pitching tonight! Home runs are popping out all over! It almost feels like we might be somewhat going someplace. (I don’t want to jinx it.)
Blog note
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