![]() Diamondbacks third baseman Mark Reynolds tags out Los Angeles' Jeff Kent for the first out of a double play in the first inning of Arizona's loss to the Dodgers at Chase Field.
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Los Angeles pulls evenLoney makes sure D-backs no longer lonely at the top
The associated press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.19.2008
PHOENIX — James Loney homered leading off the 11th inning to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.
Nomar Garciaparra had his first multihomer game in nearly six years and Matt Kemp also homered for the Dodgers, who won their second straight to pull into a first-place tie with the Diamondbacks in the NL West.
Loney's home run off Doug Slaten (0-3) was the Dodgers' fourth solo shot of the game.
Cory Wade (1-1) pitched the 10th for the Dodgers and one-time closer Jonathan Broxton, Los Angeles' eighth pitcher, came on in the 11th for his first save in six opportunities. He's filling in for injured closer Takashi Saito.
Garciaparra finished 3 for 4 with two runs scored and three RBIs. He hit two homers in a game for the first time since August 4, 2002, for the Boston Red Sox against Texas.
Chris Young was 2 for 5 with a triple and two runs scored, Chad Tracy drove in a pair of runs and Conor Jackson was 3 for 5 with two walks for the Diamondbacks.
Young tripled into the right-field corner and scored in the third inning to put Arizona ahead 7-5, but the Los Angeles bullpen held the Diamondbacks scoreless on six hits over the final eight innings.
Garciaparra hit his second home run to lead off the sixth inning against reliever Yusmeiro Petit and pull the Dodgers to 7-6. Kemp then hit a one-out homer off Leo Rosales in the seventh to tie the game at 7.
The teams combined for seven runs on nine hits, two walks and three errors in the first inning as the D-backs took a 4-3 lead. Andre Ethier and Russell Martin had RBI doubles for Los Angeles while Tracy and Mark Reynolds had run-scoring singles for Arizona.
The Diamondbacks added two more runs in the second on an RBI double by Tracy and a run-scoring wild pitch by Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda to make it 6-3.
Garciaparra pulled the Dodgers to 6-5 in the top of the third with his first home run, a 416-foot shot into a bowl of food in the pool area beyond the fence in right-center field off Diamondbacks starter Doug Davis.
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● The Diamondbacks placed right fielder Justin Upton on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 9, with a strained left oblique. Upton is hitting .242 in 83 games with 11 home runs and 31 RBIs.
● In his first at-bat since returning to the D-backs, Tony Clark struck out as a pinch hitter in the ninth. Clark was reaquired from San Diego in exchange for a minor-league pitcher on Thursday.
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