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... Coulda Shoulda Woulda ... (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

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... Coulda Shoulda Woulda ... (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Final Score in the Elysian Landgrab: Angels 6, Dodgers 5

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In a battle of LA natives (the Angels) and psychic powered Bostonians (the Brooklyn Dodgers), Southern California's finest turned out to be the team that trusted in Dodger great Mike Scioscia. Hideki Matsui went 3 for 4 with 2 RBI and a run scored, Jered Weaver pitched into the 7th, but sketchy defensive placement by the Angels let the blue crew back into the game. Lousy relief pitching had taken a game off for the Halos but reappeared in force with Kevin Jepsen and Fernando Rodney deciding that a human performance art reenactment of toilet bowl cleaner swirling around on flushes could occur on the basepaths.

A late Mike Napoli HR turned out to be the difference, but the result in the win column was exactly the same as the two previous nights: just another road W.

After a first ever sweep of the Cardinals in their crumbling stadium on stolen land, the Dodgers were humiliated by their former tenants, the superior Los Angeles Angels of Ax-Kicking Anaheim. The Angels swept the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for the first time in interleague history. Mike Scioscia thus retained his paisoano pwnage of Joe Torre. Remember him?

The Angels wrap up a 14-game Road Trip going 11-3. A big thanks to U2 for scheduling that concert at Anaheim Stadium just when the Halos needed to hop on a plane to get the juices flowing. Whether or not the streets had no name, the Angels won wherever they roamed.

Angels starters allowed 5 runs in 20 IP against the Dodgers. The Angels outscored the Dodgers 20-8 in the three game series. The Angels hit 4 HR in the series. The Dodgers had 2 solo shots. The teams face off again for three games in Anaheim beginning a week from Tuesday.

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Poll
Panther of the Game
Jered Weaver
196 votes
Hideki Matsui
171 votes
Brian Fuentes
32 votes

399 votes | Poll has closed

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Awesome SWEEP of the Doyers at the Latrine

FUCK THE DODGERS

Time to break this out

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a sonicare toothbrush?
I was thinking butane charcoal lighter.
LIGHTSABER
It's a cricket bat with a nail sticking out
I think our impressions are more threatening.
ASCII ART FAIL?

No, really, I have no idea. Shrimp catcher from the side?

A Narwhal tusk?
It's something

you need to run across your kitchen floor to get that Dodger shit up.

Whoops

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It is Yoda's

B R O O M S A B E R

I still

don’t see it…

But I'm assuming you were going for something like this (This probably won't work)

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i think i finally got a pregame guess right

after going 0 for 9 :o

Cry me a river… I’m like 1 for 40.

Even more awesome about this series

Them Doyers never had the lead. Halos holding them down going wire-to-wire

Napoli for panther!

Come on Rev you got to pander to the Nap fans.

"pander" and "naps" in the same sentence just feels soooo right
Pander bear.

Give that slugger some bamboo.

Nappy pander hugs all around!
Naps is SO getting laid...
"... let the blue crew back into the game."

Where “blue crew” = umpiring crew. Simply awful, those clods.

OTOH, this is a SWEEP to be proud of. The Dodgers had the best record in the National League coming into this series. Now they’re in second place in their own division.

The Mariners managed to somehow not lose to the Padres so that helped them a tiny bit.
C. Santana was just called up...

and this shit happened.

what site is that from?
sbnation.com

but Hardballtalk.com hooked up the link.

Did Dunn just pus
push over Santana?

It looked like he just kinda shoved him

There's only room for one phenom

Hyahh!

He stayed in the game
Who did the Dodgers get for that guy?
Casey Blake

Really Santana was traded to save the Dodgers 2 million of Blake’s contract

Thanks.....could end up like Delino for Pedro.
Daniel Cabrera also made his first appearance.

in AA, he pitched a scoreless inning allowed one hit and one walk

Two nice extra inning wins today at Salt Lake and Rancho, as well.

Dominating two innings from Kohn, with three Ks.

And Tyson Auer continues to put together a nice little season for himself at Rancho. On base four times today, with two triples and a walk. He now has the highest batting average on the club, surpassing Amarista — he’s doing what we’d like Bourjos to do at AAA.

Pat Corbin had to be stoked at Auer’s effort, since he helped preserve his 9-0 undefeated record on the season, even when he lacked his best stuff. (Corbin have up two blasts and was out of the game after the fifth inning.)

It seems like Bourjos has been doing better at least, though he's still quite a bit short of what we would like to see so far
SB Nation boxscore on front page kept by a Dodger fan?

Their error is mysteriously gone.

well it is in the mlb one

and on the pregame guess as well. BAMMO !!!!

Dang good road trip...........
Isn't Brooklyn a borough of NYC, thus making the Doyers New Yorkers and not Bostonians?

Or am I utterly confused?

owned by a Bostonian
The parking lot attendant.

Simers visited said parking lot and wrote about it this week. The Bostonian no longer owns that piece of property that he used to leverage the $200 million to buy the Dodgers: he defaulted on it.

Ted Lilly has a not hitter ^8 2 out
Juan Pierre ruined it
Quentin flew out to center

for the final out of the game. What? What?

HA !
The Lakers lost.

Hoe does Kobe feel. What is the reaction of Angkers fans? Oh wait, ESPN could care less what Angkers fans feel.

NAPS!

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Thank you for posting this

my night is now complete

Watching the relay

After giving up a eleven pitch double to Mammy Ramirez, WTY blows up. Stomping around the infield, and the mound, yelling things that had poor ol’Vinny struggling for the proper translation.

Who was Weave snapping on?

Hunter and Willits. Weaver thought one of them should have caught the fly ball and saved

Weave’s ass. They did’nt and Weaver was gone shortly after. Weaver always wants to pitch deep in to games because he doesn’t trust the bullpen, but he has no problem bitching at the position players if they mess up something for him.

He was voicing his displesaure about the OFers

yelling at everyone in the dugout, the ones who could hear him.

Sounds like

he picked up some of Lackey’s bad habits…. That’s a cause for concern

Much of the outfield play this season

can be seen a s a cause for concern as well

I think they deserved his wrath,

as they did at times when it was Lackey pitching.

I just don’t want WTY so angry that he can’t pitch, which was the case yesterday.

Problem with Pre-Game Picks for monday!!!!!!

What if neither Naps or Cecil GET a hit????!!!!!
Closest to getting a hit?
Longest ball hit?
Who gets laid the most? (we know the answer to that…)

Then the correct answer is

“they have the same amount of hits”

results updated

same disclamer. if you made your pick before now, your bet has already been deducted from your total

Today we didn't even have to blame our AK

I gotta say it was a good day

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