Sure, the Dodgers entered play Monday having erased all but one percentage point off a 9 1/2-game deficit, bringing themselves into a virtual tie with for the NL West lead with the rival San Francisco Giants. But manager Don Mattingly cautioned that there is lots of baseball left."Obviously, we're happy with the way things are going right now, the way we're playing, the fact we've been able to make up a pretty good deficit," he said before his team's interleague game against the Cleveland Indians.