Congrats to Juan Pierre on his thievery milestone

Last night’s Dodgers win over the Giants saw a milestone reached in the bottom of the 7th inning when Juan Pierre stole his 500th base. In doing so, he also became only the fourth player in MLB history to steal at least 100 bases with three different teams.

There was also a bit of odd ball getting played again after Monday night’s double ejections over something that happened in the Dodgers’ third base dugout. In the sixth inning Casey Blake (again) hit a double that caused not one but two umpire conferences to figure out what happened. In the end the umpires went to the rule book and as Wasabi pointed out on the Blue Notes blog Rule 6.09g dictated that the umpire award extra bases, sending James Loney home (I wonder if he collected $200) and Blake to third.Check out the video of Blake’s disputed double on Ken Gurnick’s wrapup of the game for the Dodgers’ website.

I just pray to the Great Dodger in the Sky that the trade deadline passes this tomorrow afternoon without Manny Ramirez becoming a thorn in Joe Torre’s flesh. (Woops! I had the trade deadline a day earlier. Luckily it looks like Manny will go elsewhere. Unless he stays in Boston for the rest of the season.)