Freeway Series Comes to a Close

Yesterday I saw some kid rocking a Dodgers shirt and Angles hat while I was out walking my dog, apparently the only person in Santa Barbara with conflicted feelings about the Freeway Series. In any event, the Angles returned the 1-0 favor to the Dodgers today, blanking Joe Torre's crew behind yet another phenomenal performance by John Lackey. Go on ahead and take a look at the Angles' BP page, how dirty are those top 3 starters? A combined VORP of over 66? Sick.

We find ourselves in what has become our default position, firmly entrenched at 2.5 games behind the D-Backs and 5 games under .500. Own it. Also ESPN has done a nice job of including the run differential for the mathematically challenged...one could be an optimist and say the Dodgers should have a better record than they do based on the positive differential, if one were so inclined. Good God the Madres are bad.

WEST	W	L	PCT	GB	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Arizona	41	41	.500	-	366	359	+7	Lost 1	3-7
LA Dodgers	38	43	.469	2.5	331	328	+3	Lost 1	5-5
San Francisco	36	46	.439	5	335	372	-37	Won 2	5-5
Colorado	32	50	.390	9	341	417	-76	Lost 7	2-8
San Diego	32	51	.386	9.5	302	390	-88	Lost 8	1-9