Giants 4, Dodgers 2: Winning a series in L.A.: always nice. Larry King left the yard in the seventh inning. Dirtbag.
The Giants had their own dirtbag, but the good kind: Steve Kline. A guy who’d rather grow a beard and scratch unmentionable places than throw an inside fastball to Luis Gonzalez. I don’t know how he did it, but Kline bailed out Brad Hennessey in the ninth to preserve the win. Hennessey was as bad in the ninth as he was great in the eighth, as if he couldn’t stand too much success.
A note about Zito: he got squeezed on the run-scoring walk to Russell Martin (since when are belt-high fastballs not strikes?). But more importantly: Joe West was calling strikes below the knees. Why was Zito not throwing there? It wasn’t pretty, but he avoided the type of meltdown from now on known as the Cincinnati Bowtie. Remember, it’s all about connections.
PLODAG: Kline. Runner-up: Pedro Feliz, with two RBI singles. Stop it, Petey, you’re gonna make me love you in spite of myself.
