Hell Freezing Over

Scoring Summary, Los Angeles:
Top 6th: LA Dodgers – J. Pierre homered to deep right
Don’t try to adjust your computer monitors friends. MLB even has video proof if you happen to have missed it (I was driving home from work and almost crashed my car). That was JP’s first home run since September 18, 2006. Does that date look familiar to you? It should, as Jon Weisman points out—it’s the date of the 4 straight home runs off of Trevor Hoffman (plus Nomar’s walk-off). So yes, things are looking pretty good. In fact, the current front page of CoolStandings looks like this:

West	W	L	PCT	GB	RS	RA	EXPW	EXPL	DIV	WC	POFF
Los Angeles	78	72	.520	-	636	591	85.2	76.8	97.9	0.0	97.9
Arizona	73	76	.490	4.5	661	654	79.8	82.2	2.1	0.0	2.1
San Francisco	68	82	.453	10	596	701	73.2	88.8	<0.1	0.0	<0.1

Which is reason enough to celebrate. You know what the real story is though? San Francisco. I picked this team to lose 100 games and as you can see above they’re projected to drop less than 90, thanks largely in part to a better-than-advertised pitching staff and of course the relative suckiness of the whole NL West. And there was much rejoicing.