LA Dodgers 4, San Diego 3
When: 10:05 PM ET, Friday, May 14, 2010
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature:
66°
Umpires:
Home -
Eric Cooper, 1B -
Bill Miller, 2B -
Chad Fairchild, 3B -
Mike Reilly
Attendance:
42056
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Matt Kemp hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to their fifth straight win with Friday’s 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Andre Ethier continued his torrid May with a pair of hits and an RBI and Manny Ramirez drove in a run for the Dodgers, who moved to within four games of their first-place counterparts.
Trailing by a run entering the seventh, Russell Martin doubled with one out before Kemp blasted a shot to deep center off Luke Gregerson (0-1) that bounced off the glove of outfielder Tony Gwynn, who had climbed the fence in hopes of robbing the home run.
The blast made a winner of Jeff Weaver (2-1), who worked one perfect inning as five relief pitchers combined for five scoreless frames. Jonathan Broxton didn’t allow a base-runner in the ninth for his fifth save.
The Padres took a 3-2 lead in the fifth on Chase Headley’s fielder’s choice. They had two other leads prior on Adrian Gonzalez’s first-inning homer and Wil Venable’s run-scoring single in the third to make it 2-1.
Ethier’s double to deep right-center in the fifth narrowly missed clearing the fence, but scored Kemp for a game-tying double.
David Eckstein had three hits for San Diego, which snapped a three-game winning streak.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| LA Dodgers |
|
San Diego |
|
Ramon Ortiz |
Player |
Jon Garland
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
4.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
6 |
Hits |
6 |
|
6.75 |
ERA |
3.00 |
Hitting
| LA Dodgers |
|
San Diego |
|
Andre Ethier
| Player |
David Eckstein |
|
2 |
Hits |
3 |
|
1 |
RBI |
0 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
3 |
TB |
4 |
|
.667 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| LA Dodgers
|
10 |
1 |
16 |
.286 |
19 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
| San Diego
|
8 |
1 |
12 |
.235 |
13 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
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