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.
| 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 |
| Atlanta | LA Dodgers | |
| Yunel Escobar | Player | Jamey Carroll |
| 3 | Hits | 2 |
| 3 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 4 | TB | 3 |
| .750 | Avg | .500 |
| 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 |