Dodgers 0-2 without Manny

The L.A. Dodgers were 13-0 at home when they beat the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night. The 10-3 win meant the Dodgers broke the modern MLB record for a home winning streak to start a season.

Then came the 50-game suspension of Manny Ramirez on Thursday.

L.A. lost 11-9 on Thursday night (despite jumping out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning), and made it 0-2 without Manny, when the Dodgers dropped a 3-1 decision to the rival San Francisco Giants.

San Fran is now 4 1/2 games back of the Dodgers in the NL West.

Both losses on Thursday and Friday were at Dodger Stadium.

Jim Kelley on the Fan 590 made an interesting point on Friday afternoon: a team that has a player caught using a banned substance should forfeit the games they won with the player in the lineup. If players know they are responsible for costing their teams victories, then they might not use any substances. Good point.

That means the Dodgers would be, oh, say 0-30 right now. :-)


What's up with Yahoo! Sports?

Tonight on the site, it had the Dodgers beating the Giants 4-1 on the front page of their MLB section. (If you clicked on the link, it was a recap of the ANGELS beating the Royals 4-1.)

Also tonight, on the NHL section's front page, it had "Canes-Bruins series tied 2-2" even though the series was now 3-1 for Carolina.

Last Saturday, the Yahoo! NHL section showed a final score of the Hawks-Canucks game as 5-3 Chicago. (It was actually 6-3.)

A couple weeks before that, the site had St. Louis leading Vancouver 1-0 at the end of two periods. (The score was 0-0 at that point and the Blues ended up losing 3-0.) That one was odd. I was watching the game and had Yahoo! Sports on the Internet too--there wasn't even any puck that was close to being in the Canucks net (ie. it wasn't like the Blues scored and it was under video replay or anything. The Blues never came close to scoring!)

This Yahoo! Sports site has to get its act together. Not good enough.