Get By With a Little Help From PR

I didn't know what to write after last night's loss. I'm sure everyone was expecting a tale of sorrow after we arrived home from a brutal 7-5 defeat. A game in which we led 5-3 in the 8th. A game that turned on two swings. A game that put the Dodgers in a 3-1 hole heading into Game 5 of the NLCS. But when we arrived home, my plan to tell the world of my woe was thwarted as the power was out throughout my building. No light, no tv, no laptop, no blogging.

So when I awoke this morning, still unsure what to say, our VP of PR (who is also a competing blogger) made all of us in Dodgertown feel a little better. I'll let him take it from here:

Ten times this season, we’ve won three straight games…

Seventeen times this season, we’ve won back-to-back games on the road…

We’re 12-7 in our last 19 road games…

We’ve won 23 of our last 34 games…

We’ve got Billingsley, Kuroda, and Lowe, each of whom has shown that he can win in the postseason, going on regular rest starting tomorrow night…

And tomorrow, when 56,800 fans will be showing up on our doorstep, marks the 20th anniversary that a guy named Kirk Gibson hobbled up to home plate against the best closer in baseball and with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning and his team down by a run, hit a two-run homer that won Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and took a team that no one said could beat a highly-favored team to its last World Championship…