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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
LA Dodgers 5, Atlanta 4
When: 10:10 PM ET, Friday, June 4, 2010
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Temperature: 71°
Umpires: Home - Gerry Davis, 1B - Mike Muchlinski, 2B - Greg Gibson, 3B - D.J. Reyburn
Attendance: 42459

James Loney had a tie-breaking RBI single in the seventh inning to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday.

Loney singled to center to plate Andre Ethier with the winning run and make a winner out of Hong-Chih Kuo (1-1), who came on in relief to get four outs while allowing one hit and striking out one.

The Dodgers got off to a fast start, scoring a pair of runs in each of the first two innings. Ethier had a sacrifice fly and Ronnie Belliard an RBI double in the first to make it 2-0. Rafael Furcal ripped an RBI triple and Matt Kemp added a sac fly in the second to double the lead.

Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw gave up four runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings. Jonathan Broxton struck out two in the ninth for his 14th save of the season.

Yunel Escobar went 3-for-4 with three RBIs for Atlanta, which had a nine-game win streak snapped.

Kenshin Kawakami (0-8) remained winless and took the loss for the Braves after yielding five runs and nine hits with three walks and four strikeouts.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   LA Dodgers
Kenshin Kawakami Player Clayton Kershaw
Loss W/L No Decision
6.1 IP 6.2
4 Strikeouts 8
9 Hits 5
7.11 ERA 4.05
Hitting
Atlanta   LA Dodgers
Yunel Escobar Player Jamey Carroll
3 Hits 2
3 RBI 0
0 HR 0
4 TB 3
.750 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 6 0 7 .176 18 11 3 5 0 0
LA Dodgers 10 0 16 .323 12 4 5 3 1 1