Pulling Away?

Welcome back Cory Wade. The kid just looks confident out there now, as though there's nothing he can't handle. Shuts down six in a row without ginv up so much as a walk. Fs Brad Penny's ERA by giving up a sac fly, but that's the price you pay for loading up the bases and not getting anyone out.

Is it just me, or does it look like Penny ate Andrew Jones while he was on the DL? He was never exactly svelte, but he seems ever more like Larry the Cable Guy than a professional athlete. As I recall, it was his shoulder that needed rehabbing. Maybe he was compensating by eating twice as much with the fork in his left hand.

Simers is already slotting him into the 3-spot for the playoffs. The only three spot I'd put him in right now is the third pitcher to enter the game after the first two suck. Some combination of Maddux and Kershaw probably gives you a better shot of winning a game. And frankly, if the Dodgers use Lowe and Billz in Games 1-2, Game three will be here in LA, where Kuroda has been good.

Apparently, hitting behind Manny is good too, as James Loney will attest. Manny is just sick. That first home run he identified as a slowly breaking pitch and he just would up and socked the hell out of it.

Would somebody tie Jeff Kent to the training table so that FAJ and Penny might mistake him for food. Please.

The Dodgers are playing so well right now that I didn't even mention how pathetic Weeney is. See, I definitely didn't mention it this time. Torre must be playing the law of averages. After all, a stopped clock is right twice a day. Because of those incriminating pictures WY has of Torre, all we can do is hope that the clock reads 10:03 on 10/03 for Sweeney to get right.