Following suit with the rest of the year, the Dodgers beat the Phillies back in LA again. The Dodgers did everything right, with Hiroki Kuroda pitching a great game for most of the night, and the few times he made mistakes, he got out of it relatively unscathed, going 6 innings with only 2 runs and 5 hits allowed.
Cory Wade did well out of the bullpen, pitching two excellent innings, as did Jonathan Broxton in the 9th.
The offensive hero of the night was Blake DeWitt. Although he still has a low batting average, his bases-clearing triple in the first inning broke the game open to a 5-0 lead, and giving him 6 RBI in post-season in his rookie year.
There was a strange animosity between the teams, with Russell Martin being hit by pitches twice in the game, and a lot of up-and-in pitches to both teams. At one point it looked like there would be a brawl, but the fire was quickly put out.
Attendance was a new record for Dodger stadium, 56,800, which eclipsed the old record. I guess the Dodgers renegotiated their contract with the city that limits them to 56,000 per game.
The whole team looked good. Let's hope they keep the offense alive tomorrow for Derek Lowe!
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The animosity isn't strange. The Phillies started buzzin' things in Game 2 and the Dodgers had had enough:
http://tinyurl.com/the-reason
and
http://tinyurl.com/the-response
GO DODGERS!
Great game! My friend Drew and I were rocking out in the loge.
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