LA Dodgers 7, San Francisco 5
When: 8:00 PM ET, Sunday, April 3, 2011
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Temperature:
65°
Umpires:
Home -
Adrian Johnson, 1B -
Gary Cederstrom, 2B -
Lance Barksdale, 3B -
Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance:
50896
By SportsDirect Inc.
Matt Kemp belted a two-run homer and Marcus Thames hit a go-ahead triple as the Los Angeles Dodgers recorded a 7-5 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Sunday.
Thames tripled off the glove of Giants right fielder Aubrey Huff to snap a 3-3 tie in the seventh inning as the Dodgers won three of four games in the season-opening series against the 2010 World Series champions.
Hiroki Kuroda (1-0) gave up three runs and six hits in seven innings for Los Angeles. Jonathan Broxton allowed a homer to Aaron Rowand in the ninth before retiring Buster Posey on a grounder with one man on for his third save.
Thames’ hit off Dan Runzler (0-1) was part of a four-run seventh-inning uprising. Aaron Miles added a run-scoring single and scored on Rafael Furcal’s double. Andre Ethier singled in Furcal to make it 7-3.
San Francisco’s Pat Burrell homered to tie the score in the top of the inning prior to Los Angeles’ big inning.
Kemp’s homer followed Jamey Carroll’s RBI-triple and capped a three-run first inning against San Francisco starter Barry Zito.
The Giants struck on Pablo Sandoval’s second-inning homer and pulled within 3-2 in the sixth on Buster Posey’s run-scoring single.
Zito allowed three runs and three hits in six innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Francisco |
|
LA Dodgers |
|
Barry Zito
|
Player |
Hiroki Kuroda
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
Win |
|
6.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
3 |
Hits |
6 |
|
4.50 |
ERA |
3.86 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
9 |
3 |
20 |
.257 |
13 |
6 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| LA Dodgers
|
9 |
1 |
17 |
.273 |
11 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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