Giants take series from Dodgers with dingers, Tim Hudson

The game was tied, and then there were dingers.Before the chest-puffing, horn-tooting, BEAT-LA part of the recap, let's take a second to wonder what the heck is different about the Giants on the road. It's not like they're an okay lineup on the road and an iffy one at home. It's not like they're an above-average lineup on the road. They're the best in all of Major League Baseball and they're waaaaaaaay ahead of second place.

I don't want to start a post-Dodgers-defeat recap with this kind of cocked-dog-head confusion, but it's all I can think of. This team is the Big Red Machine on the road, give or take some hyperbole. And do you know who was in the rotation for the Big Red Machine? Don…