Major League Baseball
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Arizona 3, LA Dodgers 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 16, 2011
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Lazaro Diaz, 1B - Manny Gonzalez, 2B - John Hirschbeck, 3B - Scott Barry
Attendance: 28897

Ian Kennedy set a career high in wins, Brandon Allen hit a three-run homer and the Arizona Diamondbacks ended a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night.

Dodgers' All-Star Matt Kemp moved into a tie with St. Louis’ Lance Berkman for the National League home run lead with his 24th, but it wasn’t enough as Los Angeles had its season-best five-game winning streak snapped.

The Dodgers were slowed by Kennedy (10-3), who surpassed his previous high of nine wins set last season - his first as a full-time starter. The righthander allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings.

Kemp belted a solo homer in the second, but Allen responded in the bottom of the inning. Allen, a 6-foot-2, 235-pound slugger who was called up on from Triple A Reno on Friday, gave the Diamondbacks the lead by ripping a 3-2 fastball from Hiroki Kuroda (6-11) deep into the right field seats.

Kennedy walked in a run in the fifth, but escaped the jam by getting All-Star Andre Ethier to pop out.

Joe Patterson and Sam Demel combined to work the eighth, and David Hernandez pitched the ninth for his eighth save in 10 chances.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Dodgers   Arizona
Hiroki Kuroda Player Ian Kennedy
Loss W/L Win
6.0 IP 7.0
7 Strikeouts 7
5 Hits 5
4.50 ERA 2.57
Hitting
LA Dodgers   Arizona
Tony Gwynn Player Miguel Montero
2 Hits 1
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 1
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
LA Dodgers 5 1 8 .161 7 9 2 3 0 0
Arizona 5 1 11 .179 6 9 3 0 0 0