SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Los Angeles Dodgers genius Clayton Kershaw build yet another major efficiency at AT& T Park .
His teammates will also be obtaining cozy with the particular Giants' waterfront ballpark - it's true they may be right back the thick from the NL West race.
Kershaw pitched your five-hitter regarding his next shutout in the season, and Los Angeles beat San Francisco 4-0 on Sunday to finish some sort of three-game attract with the division-leading Giants.
''We understand why is actually some of our year. There's no excuses,'' Kershaw mentioned right after his next shutout associated with the season. ''Everybody's doing everything they are able to helping put us within the suitable position to be able to win. We just have to go out generally there in addition to play now.''
That is often a considerably be sad with the emotion while in the Dodgers clubhouse thirty days ago if they ended up shut out there around some consecutive mmorpgs and also enable some sort of three-game head inside category slide away.
San Francisco (55-46) nevertheless sales opportunities Los Angeles (56-47) by way of just one percent stage using eleven mmorpgs outstanding concerning that clubs the following season.
''This is going to end up being a battle throughout the subsequent couple of months,'' Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp said. ''The last occasion all of us arrived the following i was banged up. Now there is certainly that healthy Dodgers in existence along with we're enjoying good.''
Kershaw (8-6) minted available seven plus walked just one throughout their fifth career shutout, conquering the Giants for that beginer in about three gets going this season. He missing together earlier gathering inspite of enabling only four acquired runs in 14 innings.
Kershaw, 5-2 which includes a 0.66 ERA inside eight occupation will begin at AT& T Park , furthermore live through a terrify inside eighth while Marco Scutaro struck a new collection commute that ricocheted there are various pitcher's baseball glove hand. Second baseman Mark Ellis retrieved this golf ball to make the actual out as Kershaw thrown their glove to help the actual ground. He met in short , with a group trainer as well as office manager Don Mattingly on the mound, then struck released Brandon Belt to end the inning.
''It sets people appropriate last that midsection connected with things,'' Kershaw said. ''My fastball wasn't great. I simply couldn't have which tiny further upon it. But (my) offspeed seemed to be fine and I compounded that up. It had been simply just type of a variety of everything, really.''
Ellis, Kemp, Andre Ethier and James Loney had a couple visits apiece, and Luis Cruz added two hits and went with not one but two runs for any Dodgers.
Blanked inside a three-game series at San Francisco from June 25-27, Los Angeles outscored the particular Giants 19-3 during this series in addition to failed to stop trying a work through the remaining 20 innings.
San Francisco, which possesses misplaced four straight, don't receive your athlete past subsequent along with was able merely three strikes while in the final seven innings. The Giants were being swept in the home through the Dodgers for any beginer given that June 28-30, 2010.
''That's what happens if you skin certainly one of the best pitchers amongst gamers suitable now,'' San Francisco starter Ryan Vogelsong said. ''If anything, this will likely make us a very little nutty and also we can require the item out there about this Mets the subsequent time in.''
The slumping New York Mets will certainly check out this Giants for the four-game collection that takes place on Monday.
Vogelsong (8-5), whom had claimed equally connected with their before matchups towards Kershaw this year, helped a pair of works - one earned - as well as half a dozen hits within six innings along with five strikeouts in addition to three walks. He lowered his or her ERA to a major league-leading 2.22.
Los Angeles went ahead of time by using two extends from the fourth, subsequent singles by Juan Rivera and Kemp. With runners for the aspects your decide one out, newly acquired Hanley Ramirez grounded to be able to 3 rd and overcom following baseman Ryan Theriot's inform throw in order to avoid a two bottle have fun with since Rivera scored. After Scutaro decreased Loney's popup that will third for a good error, Cruz reach a good RBI double.
Vogelsong minted out there Kershaw together with the actual angles filled to finish your sixth. The Dodgers additional some works in the eighth towards Jeremy Affeldt following a one-out two bottle by simply Loney. Cruz and Mark Ellis strike RBI singles.
NOTES: Kershaw pitched some sort of six-hit shutout against St. Louis with May 19. . Loney is usually hammering .328 throughout July (21-for-64). . The first seven hitters in the Dodgers' purchase all had a minumum of one hit. No. 8 batter A.J. Ellis walked several times. . Cruz is known for a career-best, 12-game punishing streak this is likewise the best by way of a Dodgers player this particular season. . LHP Madison Bumgarner is rue his or her team-leading 12th win for San Francisco from the Mets on Monday. . Aaron Harang (7-5), knocked released in the fifth inning through Arizona about May 22, commences for that Dodgers within the opener involving some sort of three-game property arranged contrary to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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