Pretty decent Kuo-tation

I know Matt will bring the full (and joyful) game report from the blanking of the Mets pretty soon, but in the meantime I just wanted to bring you attention to two things I noticed during last night's game:

[1] How composed Hong-Chi Kuo was in between a batter who reached base and the following batter (not that there were too many of the former). He did not flinch, he did not gesture, but went about his business from one batter to another. Minding his own business which was getting outs and preventing the other team from scoring. I like that from a reliever-turned-starter. I like it a lot. With this mindset, he's not wasting energy on things beyond control and showed last night, with the occasional lucky bounce, he'd be able to sweep the runner out with the double-plkay ground ball.

I'm not going to say too much after his first major league start, but he might have found a place in the next year's spring training roster. And - he's a lefty (mode on: cheers for the departure of Mark Hendrickson, mode off).

[2] Is Rafael Furcal unbelievable lately or what? Seemed like he hypnotized the groundballs to go right to the place where he was or moving to. Apart from Wilson Betemit most Dodger infielders did have good nights fielding.