It’s a good thing the Los Angeles Lakers effort to obtain center Dwight Howard is dominating the headlines. The news is allowing the Dodgers to sneak out of town after a home stand in which they stunk up Los Angeles worse than the smog.
Matt Kemp’s 12th inning “walk off” home run versus the Phillies Wednesday afternoon was one of the few highlights Dodgers fans witnessed this week.
The Dodgers dropped four of six games in their first week of post-All Star break play. They held a half-game lead in the NL West entering the break and now find themselves three games behind the first-place Giants. The reward for this tailspin is a ten game road trip that will pretty much see the Dodgers either rise like the Dark Knight or become a bunch of Jokers.
The Dodgers head to New York for a weekend series versus the tough Mets, then to St. Louis, a place where they have only won six of their last seventeen, for four games and wrap up the trip in San Francisco for three more. All of those tea...
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