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By Jon Weisman
Technically, the Giants remain in first place in the National League West. By .001. If you want to be technical.
Either way, go ahead and say that the Dodgers have erased a 9 1/2-game deficit in the National League West for the second consecutive season – and have done so in 20 games, even more quickly than the 25 games it took in 2013.
They did so by pummeling the St. Louis Cardinals for the second consecutive day, 6-0, with Andre Ethier’s three-run homer – his first tater trot in more than a month – in the fifth inning providing the crowning blow behind the continued unparalleled efforts of Clayton Kershaw.
It took the Dodgers until the fourth inning to get their offense going, and in fact, it took a shift-defying bunt single by Adrian Gonzalez to generate their first hit off Cardinals righty Shelby Miller.
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Gonzalez’s effort moved Yasiel Puig, who had walked, to second base, before Matt Kemp singled in the first run and Juan Uribe hit a sacrifice fly for the second.
In the fifth, Puig doubled, Gonzalez singled and Kemp doubled ahead of Ethier’s blast. And that, as some would say, was that.
Ballgame
— Eric Stephen (@truebluela) June 29, 2014
oldbrooklynfan
I don’t think anybody thought that the Dodgers would catch up to the Giants that quickly. The mystery is, What happen to the Giants? Whatever it was I hope it doesn’t happen to the Dodgers.