6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: <i>Tempest:</i> Dodgers 4, Giants 3

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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Tempest: Dodgers 4, Giants 3

If you had told me about this game, I still wouldn't have believed it. After four consecutive home runs and a two-run dinger to beat back the Padres, after another walkoff Nomar shot only days later, after a 19-11 explosion that took the Dodgers back 56 years in the record books and wrote a new line in them with James Loney's name next to Gil Hodges —

— but wait.

Come on. Show me the magic.

First storm, first raindrop: Jeff Kent singles.

Lightning: J.D. Drew's blast, sailing, sailing, sailing over the railing and not quite into the sea.

Second storm, first raindrop: Jeff Kent's single.

Cue Jason Repko.

Cue Russell Martin walk.

Second storm, second raindrop: The Tomato dunks one, way, way to right, just shy of the line by a few feet. Repko races in.

Third raindrop: Lugo grounds out to third, Russell to third.

Show me the magic.

Wild pitch. 4-3. Ballgame.

And Saito, Sammy, whatever you want to call him, nailed it down, bending with a couple of singles, but not breaking, getting a called third strike on Sweeney.

No worse than a tie for the Wild Card now, and thanks to the Padres 3-1 loss to the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers are tied for the division lead, once more. Never in all my days have I seen such an exhilarating pennant race. So many miracles, like beads on a string. And yet, three losses and it's all over just the same. It ain't over yet. Wow.

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