Skid comes to an end

Waking up in the morning and watching the numbers rise in the L column for the last two weeks, I sat down and finally got to watch a live Dodgers game after more than a week and I couldn't have picked a better day.

Although Beimel allowed the Reds to score a leading run via balk in the bottom of the 7th, things went LA's way after that. Come next inning Martinez leveled the score with a RBI single down the right field line. In the 9th and 10th Dodgers' latest addition to the bullpen, Scott Proctor took the mound and prevented the Reds from scoring. Then top of the 11th, with 1 out and nobody on, Furcal got the Dodgers right to the exit of the dark tunnel that was the losing skid with a 400+ foot dinger to the right field bleachers to take the 5-4 lead. With his 28th save of the season, Saito then drove the LA into the daylight.

But despite feel-good win, a glance at the NL wild card standings reveals that our Dodgers will require a large dose of wins in the coming weeks to climb to that 1st spot. IMO, that should be LA's first priority - start stacking up the wins, not look so much to the standings, but focus (hard) on winning every upcoming game and they will definitely be around come October.

GO Dodgers!

PS
The fun moment of the game (for me) was in the 9th, when Proctor threw a strike three curve ball to Dunn, he obviously thought otherwise and barked something to home plate ump Emmel, who then promptly tossed him. That only fired the 6'6 Texan up and they were face-to-face in a verbal exchange for a couple of secs, until the Reds manager intervened. :)