Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
Finis: Dodgers 6, D'backs 5
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.The win tonight was almost beside the point: Olmado Saenz's weak glove cost Gagné his save streak. Gagné left a floater over the plate for Luis Gonzalez to double, and then Chad Tracy somehow squirted a routine bouncer past both Saenz and Cora to score him for the tying run. But it wasn't all bad: Saenz pinch-hit a three-run shot earlier in the game to give the Dodgers the go-ahead, so he was up for the day.-- Ecclesiastes 9:11
The man of the hour was really Shawn Green, who displayed warning track power on a well-hit fly ball to drive in the game winner.
Thanks for the HD, Fox. That said, there were not a few rough moments with the camera work as the mound and playing field went in and out of sun in the early innings. At least one point during the game suffered from a closeup in the sun that got badly overexposed from a camera operator using the wrong f-stop. And the audio was just horrible: the level kept shifting as though the mix were fading in and out. I had to ride the volume control to keep it audible, or from becoming intolerably loud. At several points the audio just disappeared, making me switch back to the NTSC broadcast. Unfortunately, their HD schedule for the rest of the season looks pretty paltry to Dodgers fans, opposite the one hundred games the Padres will have. Get on the ball, somebody. This is the media capital of the world.
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