Braves 4, Dodgers 0

The boys were never really in this one. Tomko was awful, walking six and throwing 96 pitches in 4 2/3, but the offense was even worse. Dodgers have now scored six runs in 47 innings. Granted, they ran into John Smoltz tonight. But they also went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base, six of them in scoring position. Dodgers have stranded 62 runners in their past six games. They got lucky when San Diego blew a late-inning lead at Florida tonight, but their lead is still probably going to shrink to a game, because odds are the D-backs and Giants aren’t both going to lose. Dodgers fall to 17-12 for the year.