Lost in an episode of Happy Days

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They have taken this Turn Back the Clock Thing a little too far, even though the pregame ceremony honoring Don Zimmer was outstanding and included appearances by Duke Snider, Carl Erskine and Johnny Podres, as well as some old photos shown on the big board of Zim at Dodgertown (now home of the Single-A Vero Beach Devil Rays) during his playing days. But do we really need all this 50s music? Do we really need all these poodle skirts and black leather jackets worn over white T-shirts? Do we really need the scoreboard to read BKL and SPT (the old St. Petersburg Saints of the Florida State League)? ... Something else the Dodgers don't need: a lot of early-count outs agianst Scott Kazmir, a guy who has consistently fallen behind any hitter who will take enough pitches to let him. His first trip through the lineup, he walked two and hit a batter. Not one of them advanced. Kazmir hit Tony Abreu on the back of the left buttocks to begin the third, and Rafael Furcal, who was 1 for 19 at that point, made it 1 for 20 on Kazmir's very next pitch, flying weakly to right field. Kazmir didn't give up a hit until James Loney followed a one-out walk to Saenz (Saenz's second of the game) in the fourth with a line single over the 2B's head. Randy Wolf got roughed up in the first inning, as he often does, and would have gotten roughed up again in the second and third (he walked the leadoff man both times) if he hadn't made some big pitches to get avoid it. D-Rays 2, Dodgers 0, but the Dodgers have the bases loaded and one out for Ethier, top 4

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Tony Jackson has covered the Dodgers for the Daily News since 2004 and has covered Major League Baseball on a regular basis since 1995. He previously covered the Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds. He is a native of Springdale, Ark., and a graduate of the University of Arkansas.

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