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Don't Make A Correia Out Of It: Giants 7, Dodgers 6
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — ... where John Bowker was already standing safely. A bad job of catcher-pitcher communication to be sure, and things spiraled down from there. The Dodgers rallied for five of their own in the fifth, including Juan Pierre's hilarious RBI infield single to catcher Benjie Molina. An improbable Andruw Jones pinch-hit RBI single in the sixth got the Dodgers one closer, but that was the end of their offense. Really a pretty funny game if you think about it. Yahoo box • MLB.com recap

Dodger Thoughts: The Pivotal Play
Baseball Toaster — Russell Martin shouted at Hiroki Kuroda to throw to first base on the one-out, fourth-inning comebacker with a runner on third and another runner having broken for second, but Kuroda didn't hear him, Ken Gurnick notes at MLB.com . Unfortunately, as the replays showed, Martin didn't point to first base. If only Dodger fans were tamer. "I yelled, 'One, one, one,'" said catcher Russell Martin, instructing Kuroda to throw to first base. "With the crowd, it's hard to communicate. If he doesn't hear the defenders yell, 'Going,' he's taught to turn around and fire [to second base]. ...