Tonight I’ll slip behind the Orange Curtin and have a Live Brog on SbB from inside and outside Angels Stadium - as the Halos host the Red Sox in Game 1 of the ALDS. (How this series is only five games, I have no idea.)

(No fellas, they still won’t touch your (Rally) monkeys)

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In what is likely to be the most confusing story of any Sunday morning, left coast viewers and those looking for white noise to drunkenly pass out to elsewhere in North America witnessed a highly unusual event: the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Anywhere Else That We Can Sell Ad Time In without once getting a hit.

Dodgers CF Matt Kemp took first on an Angels P Jered Weaver ball fumble in the fifth and then went from first to third when Angels C Jeff Mathis made a special delivery to center field on a throwing error while trying to peg Kemp on a steal of second. A sacrifice fly brought the game’s single scoring effort to fruition.

Weaver lasted one more inning until he was replaced for a pinch-hitter (hooray interleague play?); the Angels bullpen completed the blanking without a win to show for it.
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This baseball season will be the fifth for the Padres in San Diego’s plush Petco Park.

It will also be the fifth consecutive year that beer at the ballpark will be more expensive than the previous season. And that’s just the way baseball likes it.

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