Post-Game 145 Thread: Pirates Sink, Dodgers Roll

DODGERS 6, PIRATES 2 It may have been 2-2 in the fifth, but this was one of those easy games that you knew the Dodgers would win. All Dodgers starters got hits, with 12 total for the team, including a two-run HR from Andre Ethier (scoring Kemp, in the bottom of the fifth, to take a 4-2 lead), 2 RBI from eight-hole Orlando Hudson, who finished the night 3-for-4 with a double (and knocked in another run when he GIDPd in the fourth), and a Manny Ramirez double in the first to score Furcal. Jon Garland went six innings and gave up two ER, and Hong-Chih Kuo, George Sherrill, and Jonathan Broxton each took a scoreless inning (and each got one strikeout) to secure the victory. The Rockies' 9-1 loss to SF means our offical magic number shrinks to 14, as we open up a four-game lead in the NL West, with only 17 games left for both the Dodgers and Rockies to play.