Took the relatively short drive down to San Diego and spent time prior to the game at the USS Midway, which is a floating museum docked downtown. The museum has a mixture of self-guided and guided tours, most of it is self-guided, however the Bridge, navigation and flight operation areas are guided and the whole ship was fascinating to me. Great time to spend a few hours.
The Padres sent Aaron Harang to the hill, the long time Cincinnati hurler has really been the lone bright spot in what has been an overall disappointing year by the San Diego rotation. Going into tonight's game, Harang led the staff in victories (13), the Dodgers countered with Chad Billingsley. With this game playing no role in the championship chase, both managers are trying out some of the kids on the farm, more on that in a moment.
LA's Matt Kemp aspires to be the first NL triple crown winner since Joe Medwick in 1937 and has been blistering the ball as of late. Kemp went 1-4, dropping his average to .325 which trails Ryan Braun (.331) and Jose Reyes (.330), but still leads in RBIs and is tied with Albert Pujols in homers.
In terms of the game, all of the offense came in the home half of the 5th with back-to-back RBI singles by Will Venable and Orlando Hudson, an errant pickoff throw to 1st by Dodger catcher Tim Federowicz allowed Venable to score with the third run.
San Diego shortstop Andy Parrino made two sterling diving stabs on back-to-back grounders to rob both Juan Rivera and James Loney of hits in the 7th.
Another day of photos in LA on tap for tomorrow and I head back to San Francisco for their game Monday night against the Rockies.
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