Top of the 8th

Those Fudge-um ads for Dominos freak me out, I don't mind telling you.

Chris Woodward pinch-hits and immediately doubles down the left-field line off Brett Tomko, the new Dodgers pitcher.

Reyes is 2-for-11 this series. That was my average in the Connecticut River Valley Baseball League in Vermont. And Reyes lines out to Lofton. Lofton can't throw for shit, so Woodward tags and takes third. Nice work, Chris.

Lo Duca does one of the sweetest things I've ever seen with a bat, and shoots a bloop into right field, sticking the bat out to meet the ball, and scoring Woodward. Boy, that was a nice piece of hitting. I like that gambling, womanizing Lo Duca. Tomko balks, but Lo Duca had already taken the base because Tomko hadn't even looked at him. Lo Duca should get an extra base for Tomko's boneheadedness. Anyway, Lo Duca's on 2nd now for Beltran, who walks. That's first and second with one out. And Tomko's out.

Commercial break for the pitching change. Fox shows a montage that implies the Dodgers are winning. So that was weird.

Takashi Saito now pitches for the Dodgers. So their closer's expected to get five outs. Good luck with that.

On a routine grounder to Speechum Betemit, in an attempt to double up Beltran and Delgado, Speechum throws it into right field. Lo Duca scores, with the Carloses on the corner now. And Wright bats. That was an ugly play.

Wright strikes out on a not-quite-checked swing. Chavez really crowds the plate. I've never noticed that before. So Chavez pops out to end the inning, but what the hell? The Mets get two more.

Mets 9, Dodgers 5.