[PilotMan]

Game 1
10/2
Valenzuela v. Knepper
4-0 W over the Expos
Fernando pitches his best to start the year going the distance and getting the shutout. He wasn't overpowering, with only 4 strikeouts, but he forced a lot of groundouts and let the defense do the work. LA got on the board in the first when a Willie Randolph double scored Franklin Stubbs from first. In the third, Willie Randolph walked, then Mike Marshall hit a 401ft shot into the power alley in left to put us up 3-0. Bobby Grich added his own, a 390ft opposite field solo shot in the 7^th to finish the scoring.


Game 2
Rhoden v. Candelaria
3-2 L to the Expos
Rhoden went toe to toe with the Candy Man. Lou Whitaker put the Expos on the board first in the 2^nd inning with a 411ft solo shot to left-center. LA would get it's first hit in the 5^th and then another in the 6^th. Jim Fanning then surprised everyone when after 92 pitches thrown, and 2 hits allowed he went to the bull pen for David Palmer. In the bottom of the 6^th Gary Carter tucked a deep flyball into the left field corner to add another run for the Expos. They added another on an error in the 8^th to make it 3-0. Reardon had come on in the 8^th to close it out. The 9^th started with a Randolph walk, then Mike Marshall flied out to left. Evans knocked a single to put 2 on with 1 out. Dwayne Murphy flew out to bring up pinch hitting, Sid Bream, who walked to load the bases. Mike Scioscia then sent a ball back up the middle to score Randolph. With Evans heading home Sid Bream tried for third and the throw home was cut off and Bream was cut down at third to end the game. A critical error for LA. Never make the third out at third base. Any number of pinch hitters could have tied the game up, but instead we get a day off, then head home with a 1-1 tie.