Mambo # 5

Five is a good number, I suppose. Not as good as the number one, which is the amount of runs the dodgers needed yesterday to win. One run. One stinking run. The Dbacks won and are now 2.5 games behind the dodgers with one week of baseball left to play. The Dback play this evening and the dodgers get a day off. Tomorrow, each team will have six games left to play and the Dodgers will either have a 2 or 3 game lead. I still refuse to believe that this team will be in the playoffs until they literally clinch it, which may or may not happen until sunday afternoon. Consider me a temporary Cardinals and Rockies fan for the next six days. So, the dodgers get a day off to look for their offense, which had already taken sunday off, and then play 3 more home games against the Padres and then finish the year in the city by the bay.