Robb Quinlan dances out of the way of a Mark Hendrickson curveball in the dirt. Q extended his hitless streak today, and while I'm sympathetic to Scioscia's attempt to get him at bats, it's a bit late in the season for him to be slumping. Put it this way: nobody worried about facing Quinlan if they couldn't get Vlad out.

BTW, you may notice I got a bit of the fence in the shots of the plate. My fault for telling Helen that tickets behind the plate would be fine.