The Dodgers won 7-5 on Friday to improve to .500 on the season. The Dodgers impressively came from behind on Friday and LA actually won a game that Josh Beckett started. Although I'd still trade him and his ridiculous contract for a toasted pop tart. Beckett is still 0-3 with a 4.75 ERA this season. Adrian Gonzalez, who was scratched from Saturday's game, continued to sparkle on Friday. Gonzalez had two RBI producing doubles for a total of 3 RBIs. Gonzalez is hitting .363 this season. If he plays like this for the rest of his Dodgers career, that expensive trade with the Red Sox might actually end up being worth it.
LA only enjoyed being .500 for one day as LA lost Saturday 6-4. After Saturday's game LA is now 11-12 and still in 4th place in the NL West. They are 3.5 games behind the first place Rockies.
Here's to hoping Hanley Ramirez and his bat will actually be back with the Dodgers the first weekend in May.
Meanwhile one of my other teams, Boston, is off to their best start since 2002. The Red Sox have won 4 straight games and currently are 17-7. I'm glad the Red Sox are off to their best start since 2002. But in 2002 the Red Sox didn't win the World Series, I'm hoping this season has more similarites with the 2004 and 2007 seasons rather than the 2002 season. Boston leads the nearly as hot Orioles (15-9) by 2 games. The Evil Empire is in third place. Meanwhile the Blue Jays, who allegedly had a talent infusion in the offseason are last place in the AL East. They are 9-16 and trail the Red Sox by 8.5 games. So far the Blue Jays seem to be a lot like the Dodgers and the Lakers, a lot of hype but poorly built. (As always thanks to ESPN.com.)
David Ortiz is absolutely on fire in his 7 games back from injury. He's hitting .519, getting a hit in 14 of 27 at bats so far.
Although bad news for the Red Sox on Sunday, the worthless John Lackey is scheduled to take the mound for the Red Sox today. I'm wondering how many runs he'll give up and/ or how long he'll be injured again. He was an even worse free agency signing than Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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