Crowded at the Top

Behind a truly dominating performance by an absolutely filthy Hideki Kuroda, your Los Angeles Dodgers are now tied atop the NL West. It wasn't exactly how we planned it, hasn't exactly been beautiful, but it's nice to be looking down on the rest of the division (and looking sideways at Arizona).

Great win tonight featuring two defensive gems (both made the Web Gem list on BBTN) courtesy of DeWitt's ridiculous barehand pickup and throw in the 7th to keep the perfecto intact and an insane play deep in the hole by Berroa to start the 9th (despite the great play you know your 6 hole is shaky when Angel Berroa is your defensive replacement for Nomar Garciaparra), but the real story was obviously Kuroda's bid for immortality.

Big night at the Ravine, which probably would have been a little more memorable had our power not gone out for the 5th day in a row courtesy of the Gap Fire in the fourth inning, forcing me to go old school and turn on Jessica's old-ass battery powered radio. Jessica was also pretty excited about the evening, managing to stay awake all the way to the third inning. Nice having you, Jess.