August 17, 2008
Out of the Park
Chan-Ho Park comes in to a 5-1 game in the bottom of the ninth. There's one out and a man on first. Two errors by Loney puts runners on second and third, setting up a two-RBI single by Ray Durham. Park gets Hardy to ground out, but Ryan Braun hits a home run down the leftfield line to tie the game at five.
After the home run, there was a great shot of Clayton Kershaw in the dugout just shaking his head. Park threw his glove to the ground in disgust as the ball went out, and Torre brought in Beimel. The Dodgers are going to need at least another half inning to try to win the game and claim the lead in the NL West.
Kershaw allowed one run and one walk while striking out six in his six innings of work.
Update: Andre Ethier does Braun one better, hitting a game-winning homer in the bottom of the ninth. It's his second of the day as he goes 3 for 5 and drives in three runs. The Dodgers win 7-5 and take a one game lead in the NL West.
Manny Ramirez homered and drove in three runs. That gives him 21 RBI in 16 games for Los Angeles and 89 RBI on the season.
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I think that was Jason Johnson shaking his head. Also, the NL West is tied.
Ah, the DT proprietor beat me to the correction. ;)