Don't...stop...believin'?

Apparently, because not only did Schmidt not get bombed, he actually pitched kinda sorta well. He gave up three runs in five innings, but all of those came in the first, and at least one was due to iffy defense behind him. Sure, he had more walks (3) than strikeouts (2), but he didn't even give up a grand slam or a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch, which I was fully expecting. And he picked up the win, his second as a Dodger and first in 28 months. Frankly, this 2009 Dodger season has thrown me completely, completely off. Up is down, black is white, right is left, etc. If Brett Favre came out of retirement to play for the Dodgers and then threw a complete-game shutout to clinch the pennant, I'd probably just shrug (although ESPN would explode). It's been that kind of a year, ya know?