Streak at 11(tied for Wild Card,and a half game back in division.)Started to do some stuff that looked more like themselves(Furcal gets a 1 run home run ,but strikes out when bases were full etc.,)but to be honest,they seem to own Colorado in this ballpark.Colorado seems to hit in this ballpark about as well as the Dodgers hit in St. Louis.Reliever/set- up man Broxton seems to have grown a set,and has a pretty lively power fastball of 94-100 mph right now(amazing what 10 wins in a row and 50k people can do for a guy.)If you haven't seen the closer for this team(Saito,)then I would say he is the one player most fun to watch on the team.Loves to compete,and has awesome stuff.I still don't know why anybody would think Larry Drew is worth 10 mil a season.He was one of the hi priced players signed in the Winter of 2004-5(when the G.M. seemed to want to replace his best Latin players by paying 3 white free agents what their former teams obviously thought was way too much....or,in the case of Boston,they simply didn't wan't a drunk pitcher anymore.)Lowe(drunk in L.A.) goes to the mound for 12 in a row tonight.Never know what this guy will do.Unreliable doesn't begin to describe this guy.Seeing how Colorado struggles here,he may get through it.If he can survive the atmosphere re-entry of the 2nd and 3rd innings,he usually pitches o.k.
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