And of course, time for baseball. To that end, here are the scores, here are the highlights:
Dodgers 5, Phillies 4: The Phillies took a 4-0 lead after two innings and starter Vince Velasquez held them hitless into the sixth. A few weeks back the Dodgers might’ve buckled at that point but they seem to have found an extra gear of late. Last night that gear took the form of rallies in the sixth and eighth inning — the latter getting a nice assist from some poor Phillies defense that surely had the blokes in Passyunk Avenue going to spare — and five shutout innings from the Los Angeles bullpen.