NOOOOOOMMMMAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Wow, two walk-off homers in one week for NOOOOMMAAAAHHHHHH!!! Papi who? Who's Big Papi? Never heard of 'em. I only know NOOMMAMAAAHHHHHHHHH!!! He's definitely been the NL's Papi this season. Remember his first homer of the year? The grand salami off Brad Lidge that won the game for the Dodgers in Houston? NOOOOOOOMAAAHHHH!!!

Alright, back to sanity. Let's not forget the other hero of the game. Once again doing the family name proud, Hong-Chih Kuo pitched 7 great innings of what should have been shutout ball had Wilson Betemit not muffed a double play ball in the third. But, I'm glad he did, since it allowed for Nomar to come in and get the big knock. It's amazing the chain reactions that happen in baseball. Another example: In the bottom of the 7th, Grady Little put in Julio Lugo to pinch hit for Kuo against a righty, when he still had Andre Ethier and James Loney on the bench. Lugo, of course, flied out (like he's done so well all year). Then in the top of the 9th, he subbed Oscar Robles in for Betemit at 3rd as a late-inning defensive replacement. Of course, Robles was due up third in the bottom of the inning, and there's nobody you'd rather have up there with the game on the line than Oscar Fucking Robles. While I was screaming for Olmedo Saenz, I realized that Grady had left himself without a defenseive third base option should the game go into extras (by stupidly using up Lugo in the 7th), so it had to be Robles. Good going Grady, you bastard. Robles, of course, grounded out. Buuut, it all seemed to work out. It seems Nomar can even make up for dumbass managerial decisions.

The win is huge because San Diego and Philadelphia both won, again (since when did they both become the '27 Yankees?). So instead of 2.5 and 1.5 back in the division and wild-card respectively, the Dodgers are only down 1.5 and .5 games. We now head for Colorado and San Francisco to finish out the season. I'd say we'd have to go 5-1 in the last 6 games to guarantee ourselves a playoff spot. It's not gonna be easy. And knowing the Dodgers, they'll stay in it until the last game of the season when they'll be inevitably eliminated by a Juiceman home run to crush the hearts of all Dodger fans out there. I hate baseball.