It wasn't a pretty night for Clayton Kershaw (6.2 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 6 Ks), but he soldiered on long enough to get the Dodgers in position to win their fourth in a row; Matt Guerrier came on to finish the seventh and Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth to close it and get the save.
The Dodgers only managed four hits, half as many as the Rockies, but scored three runs in the fourth inning, thanks in large part to Ty Wigginton's error on a routine Rafael Furcal fly ball to left (go ahead and speculate which words "routine" is modifying there). Furcal ended up on second base to lead off the inning, and a Matt Kemp 2-RBI double scored Furcal and Andre Ethier (who walked), while Juan Rivera added another run off a weird fly ball to the second baseman, who then tripped and was taken out by Ryan Spilborghs, allowing Kemp to score (you should watch this highlight).
Those three runs was all the Dodgers needed to notch the win and inch to 12 GB of the division lead.
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Pittsburgh-Atlanta is in the 18th inning tied 3-3.
Andre McCutchen has a badge available with two hits. Should be no problem, right, given the 18-inning game?
Wrong. He's 0-for-5 with three walks.
In fact, no one has four hits in the game. Martin Prado is 0-for-9 right now.
To the 19th!
End of the 18th, still tied. Neither team has scored since the third inning. The fans in Atlanta must have melted to the floor by now.
It's so bad, even George Sherrill pitched for the Braves
@Sax - You misspelled "Scott Proctor."
Guy on DodgerTalk said the team should trade for Heath Bell.
(vomits uncontrollably)
TERRIBLE call ends it in the 19th.
Wow wow wowwie wow.
ALL HAIL THE HUMAN ELEMENT.
I take it ATL won.
Too bad, I didn't get my "goes into the 20th inning" badge
Dammit the MLB.com video highlight isn't working for me
Ok, just saw it.
Pittsburgh was ROBBED
Had to watch this this morning - at normal speed from above the plate, it looks like a no-brainer. On replay, you can see how the ump missed it. The catcher swiped through him without laying down a solid tag. But on slo-mo it looks like he did touch him with the glove, so it was definitely a blown call
What I am trying to figure out was what happened to the batter? He does a complete belly-flop 5 steps out of the batters box. If they had called the out at home, they had an easy double play at first
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