Sweeping with the Enemy

The Dodgers ran their season-high win streak to six games today, defeating the Marlins 5-3 and completed their second-consecutive series sweep, thanks to a Marlins defense that can only be described as "piss poor." The Marlins committed three errors in today’s game, two coming on a single play in the top of the ninth that proved to be the difference in the game, as Marlins closer Kevin Gregg threw wildly to second in an effort to start a double play on a nubber off the bat of Russell Martin. Dan Uggla was able to come down with Gregg’s throw, but his momentum pulled him off the bag. He then threw wildly to first a la Chuck Knoblauch, allowing two runs to score.

Joe Torre gave the much-hated Andruw Jones the day off, starting Juan Pierre in center. Pierre chipped in with a steal and two RBI giving him 10 thus far in fairly limited time. While hardly the type of output that would cause one to do back flips, he certainly seems to be performing better than Jones at this point and writing that makes me want to puke. It looks like Torre has realized he needs to play Kemp every day and with Etheir already entrenched it remains to be seen how Torre will find time for the $80 million dollar men. Jones was 1 for 6 in the series with 3 walks, 2 runs scored and 0 RBI. Barf.