I don't like rainy days or Mondays. AP Photo/Julie Jacobson Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies 2-2 (bottom of 6th inning). There have been rainouts in the World Series before. But never before has a game been suspended in the World Series. Cole Hamels had managed to keep the Rays down to only one run until the top of the sixth inning when the Rays manufactured a run to tie the game. Although the......

Ooooh. Basketball! AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi LA Lakers defeat Charlotte Bobcats 102-98. Jordan Farmar led all Lakers scorers with 17 points in just 22 minutes played to help the Lakers squeak past the still-winless Bobcats. After trailing by six at half time and by as much as nine in the third quarter the Lakers started to clamp down on the Bobcats to get back into the game. With an Andrew Bynum slam dunk to open......

Avs Goalie Peter Butaj blocking a shot from the Kings Patrick O'Sullivan. AP Photo/Jeff Lewis Colorado Avalanche defeat LA Kings 4-3. This game was lost in the second period when costly turnovers by the Kings led to three goals scored by the Avs. While the Kings offense is promising, they puck handling and defense needs to be shored up if they hope to make a playoff run. Thankfully it's only the fifth game in......

Russell Martin, Andre Ethier and Manny Ramirez look on as their season goes up in dust. AP Photo/David J. Phillip The improbable season ended tonight with the Dodgers losing to the Phillies 5-1. I just got back home from the Stadium and need time to collect my thoughts. Congratulations on the Dodgers for making it to the NLCS for the first time in 20 years. And good luck to the Phillies as they face,......

What the hell is wrong with you people? Looking at Stubhub, top deck tickets are going for as low as $9 for tonight's NLCS Game Five between your Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. These are seats that are face value $45. Disgraceful I tells ya.......

Casey Blake hits a homer in game four. AP Photo/Chris Carlson Like the cloud of smoke hanging thick over Los Angeles from the annual firestorms, so does the cloud of melancholy hang over Dodger fans in the wake of the most compelling game they played this postseason. Questionable pitching changes, great defensive plays, timely hitting, euphoria, frustration – all signs of a great baseball game. Enough objectivity. Like I mentioned last night the loss......

Phillies Win. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian Of all the losses this one hurts a lot. Watching the highlights right now is too much. I'll write about this one late tomorrow. Discuss.......

Dodgers standing up to the Phillies in the benches clearing kerfluffle. AP Photo/Chris Carlson “We didn’t throw at his head. We threw it over his head.” Russell Martin, with those words, you have endeared yourself even more to my heart. In the first inning of game two, I was at work listening to Vin Scully describe the wife-beater Brett Myers aiming for Manny Ramirez and Martin. I was yelling up and down the cubes......

Matt Kemp can't believe the Dodgers lost. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Admittedly MLB could have scheduled game two of the NLCS in a better time slot, but it turns out to be more of a blessing. Having first pitch scheduled at 1:30 prevented most of us from having to watch that massacre in Philly. But there I was at work listening to the radio feed and could only imagine what the carnage looked like.......

The Bums getting ready for the NLCS. AP Photo/Julie Jacobson The National League Championship Series is finally here. Many people are spinning their heads trying to judge the head-to-head matchups. Whose infield is better? Who has the better pitching? Etc. Etc. If that’s how these playoff series were measured, then the Florida Marlins wouldn’t have won the World Series in 2003. Neither would the St. Louis Cardinals in 2005. The biggest obstacle the Dodgers......

Phillies get the sweep. AP Photo/Tom Mihalek Philadelphia Phillies defeat LA Dodgers 5-0. Figure this one out. The Dodgers outhit the Phillies 13-10 but can't score one stinking run. Really? Is this how a team plays when they're in the heat of a pennant race? Chad Billingsley was not sharp throwing 107 pitches in six innings but gave up only three runs despite the seven hits and three walks he gave up. Phillie's starter......

LA Dodgers defeat Philadelphia Phillies 3-1. Dodgers pitching pretty much shut down the Phillies since the third inning of Wednesday's game. In this game the Phillies managed two hits off Hiroki Kuroda. Meanwhile the Dodgers got just enough timely hits to beat the Phils and get their first four-game sweep of the Phils since 1962. The Dodgers are now three games over .500 for the first time since May 25 and stay tied for......

FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CAUTION. Note to the players. Please be careful with Nomar so he doesn't break. AP/Chris Pizzello LA Dodgers defeats Philadelphia Phillies 7-6. The Dodgers do it again. They comeback from a 6-1 defecit after two innings to tie it 6-6 off of a Jeff Kent two-RBI double in the bottom of the ninth. While they could have shut the door closed, they would go into the ninth inning with a tie......

LA Angels defeat Seattle Mariners 7-4. The Angels looked like they would suffer a letdown after their weekend sweep over the Yankees by falling behind the Mariners 3-0. But aided with a Juan Rivera solo shot and Vladamir Guerrero two-run shot in the fifth inning, the Angels came back to show who's king of the AL West. They got three insurance runs in the eighth inning and just continue to steam through any and......

LA Dodgers defeat Philadelphia Phillies 8-6. The Dodgers were lucky to have a big lead going into the bottom of the ninth or these words would be talking about the Dodgers third consecutive game lost in the ninth inning. It seemed like the Dodgers had finally learned that one Manny an entire team does not make, but that ninth inning almost undid things. Jonathan Broxton gave up three hits and two earned runs in......

Your resident gay-bashing gay sports blogger here amped up for the start of the baseball postseason! And seeing how the regular season ended Monday night in the fabulous game that sent the Padres packing, this should be an exciting postseason. What makes this year’s action exciting is only one of the eight teams were in last year’s playoffs: the New York Yankees. This year there is a team that has only been to the......

With the Dodgers playing a rather boring series at the Washington Nationals, it’s time to take care of some housecleaning. All Star Voting Yesterday, Major League Baseball released the preliminary results of the first period of fan voting for the All Star Game. The fan votes will determine which position players start the game. According to the results, My Boyfriend is running a distant fourth to the fiery whoring gambler Paul Lo Duca (former......

On the heels of taking two games out of three from the San Diego Padres this weekend, the Dodgers have run their record to 8-4, and trail the division leading Arizona Diamondbacks by only one-half game. First place will be up for grabs when the Dodgers travel to Phoenix for a two-game set on Monday. A small component of the Dodgers' on-field success thus far has been the play of veteran utility player Marlon......

There are five more games left in the 2006 regular season. What will the fate of the Dodgers be? Will they be packing their bags ready to hit the greens or packing their bags ready for some October batting practice? Last night, the answer has become clearer. The Dodgers captured sole possession of the National League Wild Card lead by defeating the Colorado Rockies, 11-4. The Philadelphia Phillies, led by homerun sensation Ryan Howard,......