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PROGRAMMING NOTE:  Join us for today's edition of Purple, Gold, and Blue.  We'll have John Ireland of CBS/KCAL talking Lakers, and Molly Knight of ESPN The Magazine talking Dodgers.  11 am.  Click on the show widget at right to tune in.

Joe Torre admits it's a nice problem to have, this "too many outfielders" thing.  Especially nice when, as they did in Tuesday's intrasquad game, they start whacking balls all over the place.  Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier both went yard (off James McDonald and Cory Wade, respectively), as did Jason Repko, who after a winter of rehab and paternally aided BP ought to carry some wood around, just to knock on it.  Juan Pierre was also busy.  No homer- this story ain't that good- but JP had two hits and made a nice catch in left to take extras away from Repko.  Toss in Delwyn Young, who is out of options and spent Tuesday not in the OF, but filling in at second for Jeff Kent and a slow healing Tony Abreu, and the Dodgers' depth chart is, for at least today, a very crowded place. "It will be difficult with everybody in the mix, the number of outfielders we have that are capable of playing at this level," said Torre.

On the mound, Jason Schmidt hit his first bump in the road back to health.  Nothing major, but the righty wasn't all that thrilled with his bullpen session yesterday, struggling to get loose and find pop on his pitches.   "Maybe I've hit a fatigue stage. I'm trying not to get frustrated and not put myself under the microscope. I've been through rehab before and I know you don't always feel better each and every time. It's just been going so good, you want it to just keep going all spring. But I know to expect to have dips like this."