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Dodgers' streak ends, but there's no panic - Blowout loss to defending NL champs snaps eight-game run

DENVER - Not one player made a beeline for the video room to review his at-bats or pitching mechanics. Nobody tried to convince the media there is a long season ahead and there is no reason for panic.

As the Dodgers dressed amid a stunning lack of silence following their first defeat in more than a week, 7-2 to the Colorado Rockies before 43,726 on Sunday at Coors Field, it was plainly evident that this team had forgotten how to lose.

And that might just be a sign that these Dodgers have learned how to win.

Their eight-game winning streak, the club's longest in twoseasons, was history, having dissolved into a combustible mix of Derek Lowe's first-inning ineptitude and Rockies right-hander Aaron Cook's complete domination of the Dodgers' lineup. But for the first time in recent memory, the Dodgers found that they could lose with dignity, that they could fall without the sky falling with them   Read Full Article...