Dodgers Continue Best Run in 107 Years

[Zomby Woof]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Dodgers are on the club's best run since 1899, and they swear they're not giving it much thought.

"It makes for good reading, it makes for a lot of good conversation for a lot of people," manager Grady Little said after Los Angeles beat the Florida Marlins 4-0 Tuesday night for its sixth straight victory and 17th in 18 games.

"We just feel like we're playing good baseball," added Little, whose team extended its NL West lead to 3 1/2 games over San Diego. "All the components are working very good for us right now."

The last NL team to win 17 of 18 games was the 1986 New York Mets, who went on to win the World Series. No team in franchise history had won 17 of 18 since the Brooklyn Superbas went 20-1 during one stretch in 1899.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=260815119&prov=ap

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Go Dodgers!

I've never been to a pro ball game. But I get excited when they do well! :D

[Zomby Woof]

2. They just lost right now!

15-4. Ouch! x(

But it sure was exciting! :bounce: The postseason looks attainable from here. :toast: :beer: :hi:

[huskerlaw]

4. You cursed them!!

Never tempt fate by talking about a run of good luck, you silly boy.

:grr:

[Zomby Woof]

9. Naw!

I was talking about this the past 3 nights! :P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Bummers!

Well it's still a gret streak!

[reyd reid reed]

8. Post season is more than attainable.

Out of all the teams in the NL West, the Dodgers have the most cohesive, talented bunch out there. They're going to lose games here and there -- it's inevitable -- but they've got the talent and the drive and the momentum to do it.

And I think that they will.

And to think I was worried about Little. An AL manager coming in to run a NL team.

Personally, I prefer my crow dipped in batter and deep fried, thankyouverymuch -- I'll eat it, though.

[RagingInMiami]

12. And now it's safe to state for the record that I'm a Marlins fan

In fact, the 15 runs and 16 hits by the Marlins were the most the Dodgers have allowed in either category this season.

''You can put your finger on why you got your brains beat out,'' said Dodgers manager Grady Little, whose team swept the Marlins 10 days ago and had given up 15 runs in their past seven games combined. ``You made some bad pitches. In August we've made a lot of good pitches, but we know that these kind of things are going to happen.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15291343.htm

[Zomby Woof]

15. You gotta love baseball

Some days are better than others. :D

[reyd reid reed]

16. Any day there's baseball...

Especially a good game of small ball...is a good day.

[saltpoint]

3. Dodgers!

A National League top team of mine since the days of Maury Wills and Junior Gilliam.

[Broken_Hero]

6. Go Dodgers

at least one team in the NL is trying to take the bull by the horns and finally start consistantly dominating..

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. yaaay!... I guess. My daughter is a big Tigers fan and I am really

happy for all of the Tigers fans who are living a little bit of the dream right now. The only thing I cannot stand are the "band wagoners" that are running around town right now. :hi:

[Zomby Woof]

11. Yeah, *#(*# the bandwagoners!

One of my best friends back east is a Detroit native and a loyal Tigers fan. We were seniors in high school when they won the '84 Series, and he suffered through the many lean years since. Although we're not fans (nor detractors), my Dad attended a Tigers game in Detroit back in 1957 and still has the program. I have seen them play both the White Sox in old Comiskey, and the Mariners in Seattle. :hi:

[Initech]

10. I want the Dodgers to win the NL West.

At least one LA team is doing something!

[LSK]

13. didnt they just loose 15-4 yesterday?

:P

[Zomby Woof]

14. No

They did lose the game. But they didn't loose it.

[LSK]

17. im always screwing up that word

[ileus]

18. I've been waiting since the 80's for this...

[NNadir]

19. Of course, the 1986 NY Mets won 108 games.

I don't think the Dodgers will go there.

They've had a great streak, but the fact is that they've had lots of bad streaks. To win 17 of 18 and be only 7 games over .500 doesn't necessarily speak to a great ball club.

[Zomby Woof]

20. I am not making that claim

I am not claiming they are the BEST team, just the hottest currently. I am just taking pride in boosting my favorite team when they do well.

As for the '86 Mets, they were a great team, but if not for Bill Buckner, we'll never know if they would have won it all otherwise... :hide: ;-)

[NNadir]

21. When the ball passed through former Dodger Buckner's legs,

the game was already tied.

In fact, I think Buckner was intimidated by Mookie's speed.

Good luck, though to the Dodgers, at least to the playoff series. Tell me, does everybody still leave Dodger Stadium after the 7th inning?

[Zomby Woof]

24. Early departures are overstated

I am the kind of purist who does not leave until the game is over... in fact, when I went to a game at Angels stadium, their fans left MUCH earlier, and the game was tied in the 5th! But I don't start seeing mass departures from Dodgers Stadium until the 8th. Fine by me, makes leaving easier...

[NNadir]

26. Back in the 70's everybody left Dodger stadium in the 7th.

I was briefly enthusiastic about the Dodgers, when Lasorda was their new manager.

My father was very angry about it as he was from Brooklyn and the Dodgers were forever traitors, but I lived in LA then, and when in Rome...

Then came the 1977, when the Yankees, or at least Reggie Jackson crushed them in the World Series.

There was so much whining and crying, it became embarrassing to be associated with Dodgers.

Don't get me wrong. I can't stand the Yankees, but I think the Dodgers didn't handle the situation with any dignity or grace.

The thing that put me over the edge with the Dodgers, some time after Reggie Jackson crushed them, was when Jack Clark homered off of Tom Neidenfueur in the playoffs in 1985. To listen to the LA fans, they acted as if Neidenfuer had become a murderer or something.

At least when Bill Buckner returned to Boston, the fans stood and gave him a standing ovation. Well they should have. He was a damn fine ball player, and was too classy for an organization like the Dodgers but the Red Sox fans showed their appreciation to the man who helped get them to the Series in the first place.

Then there was all of that "bleed Dodger blue" crap, and the great Repuke moralist, Steve Garvey, who couldn't keep his pants on while thinking of running for the Senate. (Now Garvey doesn't bother to pay his creditors, apparently.)

I'm sorry but my experience with LA baseball wasn't baseball. It was like a soap opera.

[Zomby Woof]

27. I missed all those dramas

I have been a fan since I was a kid in the early 70's, born in SoCal, but moved away soon after - and followed them from afar as I lived elsewhere - in fact, I was in Spain for the '77 and '78 Series, and had to wait 3 days before I could read about them in the Stars & Stripes. That kind of coverage didn't really go beyond the stats and basic game facts. I knew nothing of Dodger Stadium, the local reactions, and whatnot.

I was on the east coast when the Dodgers took care of the Yankees in '81. The Yankees fans were, and are, an entitled and spoiled bunch - it was my pleasure to hold that over them that year.

I do know Buckner was good, and his bungle was a fluke, very atypical. And I sure as hell know what a creepy shit Garvey is, and I didn't even like him when he played. Now that I live in L.A., I am well aware of his criminal negligence and freeloading - but there was something always so phony about him. But aside from him and Al Campanis, the Dodgers have a great legacy: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax, Don Newcombe, and so many more.

[NNadir]

30. Well, when you refer to the earlier era, you are right.

'Course, mosta does guys played in Brooklyn in da ole days.

Let me tell ya' sumptin' doe. When dem guys lef' Brooklyn, dey los' a lotta class.

;-)

[Ellen Forradalom]

22. My seven-year-old son went to the game on Wednesday

with his day camp. Hottest ticket in town!

[Initech]

23. Colbert just made a great stab at the Dodgers:

"The Dodgers are so hot, fans are staying for a full six innings before leaving early to beat the traffic!"

[Zomby Woof]

25. They leave earlier at Angels games

In fact, I was at an Angels game on a Saturday back in May, where they lost to the Mariners in 13 innings, and I stayed until it was over. But the fair-weather Angels fams started leaving in the 5th and 6th innings when it was tied for the first time. Every time the Mariners would tie the Angels, more and more fans left. Yet when I go to Dodgers games, always on weeknights when people have to work the next day, the so-called mass departures were exaggerated. Win or lose, most people started leaving in the 8th. Myself, I stay until the end, as do most of the fans. It's one of those stale jokes, which only bears a scant resemblance to reality.

[ButtScratchinMike]

28. There is still six weeks left in the season,

so the Dodgers' still have time to rise to their level of incompetence. Go Pads!

[Zomby Woof]

29. Incompetence?

Uh yeah, sure. They made much more of the trading deadline than just about any team. The turnaround owes itself just as much to that as anything.

I have nothing against the Pads, but they are a barely .500 team like last year, and they are facing an uphill struggle now with a revitalized Dodgers team. I's going to take more than finishing 2 or 3 games above .500 to win the NL West.


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