Astros-Dodgers.

Jeezus.

Official MLB Recap. But don't read that shit.

I'll sum it up for you.

In the 9th inning (7-3 Astros), the Dodgers mounted a late rally (sort of). Andre Ethier hit a double off of Mark McLemore, and is driven in by Mark Sweeney on a PH RBI single (7-4 Astros). Brad Lidge enters, strikes out Furcal, then gets professional out-maker Juan Pierre to pop out to Brad Ausmus. As Matt Kemp prepared to step in and try his luck, Sweeney lays down in-between 1st and 2nd to make snow/dirt angels. Ausmus throws down to 1B to double him off. Game over.

Take-home quote? Former Red Sox manager Grady Little:

"Those kind of things happen, and they happen to the best of players," Little said. "He just lost track of the outs, I'm sure. It's a shame what happened to him there in that ninth inning, but it happens to the best of them." Jeezus. "Happens to the best of them" "just lost track of the outs". Absolutely. People do this while a team is clinging to feeble playoff hopes and has actually scratched a run across in the 9th inning, and the guy who knocked it in is almost always not paying attention to the number of outs.

The entirety of this story is first-rate idiocy, and despite happening in the NL West to a team that wouldn't get to the World Series even if it somehow makes the playoffs, needs to be covered just about everywhere.