Scoreboard watching and different time zones

When your team is in a pennant race, you watch the scoreboard.

When the Yankees are blanking your Dodgers you gaze at the scoreboard and wonder if San Diego can knock off San Francisco two nights in a row to preserve the lead in the standings.

Living on the East Coast with our team on the West Coast often means waiting until morning to see the results of a game that started at 10:10 p.m. Eastern.

The Giants blew a ninth-inning lead to lose to the Padres last night, easing the pain of a 3-0 shutout to the Bronx Bombers. I didn’t know about it until this morning.

MLBTV’s online package provides highlights and condensed games for the fan who can’t get enough and the MLB Channel is chock full of highlights and analysis.

But you still gotta sleep.

For the Dodgers, the pennant race is now down to 17 games after today’s rubber match with the Yanks.

The Dodgers have four games in Arizona; three at home against the Giants; four at home against the Rockies and finish the season on the road with three against the Padres and three games in San Francisco.

I will sleep when the playoffs are over.