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Leading Off: The Dodgers' Hollywood Opening

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Leading Off: The Dodgers' Hollywood Opening

During the nineteen-thirties, when I was growing up in Flatbush, the Brooklyn Dodgers lost six hundred straight games. Nobody remembers this, but then memory is like a trolley car full of chorus girls sipping egg creams: wonderful, but fleeting

But it was the Dodgers who led the day by a mile in hope-generation, a franchise mired in existential muck for so long, suddenly emerging as a glittering pearl with new owners and a gigantic payroll committed to players who might actually earn it.

Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants matched the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw zero for zero through the first six innings. Then Cain had to be taken out. The reason: He had already thrown 92 pitches. That could have been the difference in the Dodgers'

Crawford doubled, singled, and scored a run in the Dodgers' 4-0 victory over the Giants on Monday at Dodger Stadium.

The Nationals and Braves looked great on Monday, but thanks to Koufax and Kershaw, the Dodgers led the day in generating hope.

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