Ethier Ether

Raise up, cause you can't have it back
You said "I ain't never got gaffled like that"...

Throughout their first nine games of the year, the Dodgers simply crushed the meager Rockies. The local nine looked like a little league team versus Manny and the mighty blue. Then suddenly the Rox remembered they were a National League baseball franchise and on grit, gut, clutch hitting, and stellar pitching got them selves back into this thing.

Cue the proverbial "huge series" opener versus those same Dodgers. Cue the same result: a 4-2 13 inning loss...ugh. Albeit this one was there for them, and it could serve as a game that gets in the head of the Purp; the "man, what do we have to do to beat these guys" type game.

A good start would be to hose down Andre Ethier, who ended the 13 inning affair and looks poised to take the Dodgers' top dog role after a torrid weekend.

The Rox stumbled all night: balks, sketchy baserunning, three Ks in a row with a runner on third. They wasted a great performance by the Great Ubaldo, who pitched som damn fast that I was able to catch most of the weirdness that is A&E's "Obsessed" in between innings.

The Dodgers and their veteran manager Joe Torre were able to finally capitalize, in the process burning some valuable Colorado bullpen innings, taxing the bench, and further getting into their domes.

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