Article: GROUND GAME DOES IT FOR LOWE SINKER FLUSTERS ASTROS AS DODGERS WIN AGAIN DODGERS 6, HOUSTON 2.(Sports)

Byline: TONY JACKSON

Staff Writer

For two consecutive sunbaked afternoons, Derek Lowe stood alone in the Dodgers bullpen, hours before game time, clad in a T-shirt and shorts.

There was no catcher, and there was no pitching coach. Heck, there wasn't even a baseball.

Determined to fix his mechanics, which he felt had been out of whack since the moment he had injured his left hip almost a month ago, Lowe went through the motions of his delivery, throwing phantom pitch after phantom pitch with a small white towel in his right hand.

"I had thrown my first real bullpen in three weeks (on Monday), where I didn't have to worry about any physical ailments, and ...

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