/ STAFF WRITER
LOS ANGELES – Live in Southern California long enough and you learn the proper strategy in a high-speed chase is to let the speeder burn himself out or run out of gas.
But sometimes they end with a spectacular crash.
Stifled by a second night of power pitching from the New York Mets’ high-velocity hurlers, the Dodgers finally broke through with four runs in the seventh inning of Game 2 Saturday night, taking the game 5-2 and evening the series.
But the Mets left town smoldering after a borderline – if that – slide by Chase Utley knocked their shortstop, Ruben Tejada, from the game with a fractured right fibula and ignited the winning rally.