Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
LA Dodgers 8, Cincinnati 5
When: 10:10 PM ET, Saturday, August 21, 2010
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Temperature: 74°
Umpires: Home - Kerwin Danley, 1B - Angel Campos, 2B - Dana DeMuth, 3B - Doug Eddings
Attendance: 49435
The Los Angeles Dodgers hit four homers in a span of five batters Saturday night en route to an 8-5 victory over Cincinnati, halting the Reds’ seven-game winning streak.

Ryan Theriot and Andre Ethier hit two-out solo homers in the second inning and Jay Gibbons and Matt Kemp hit back-to-back homers to start the third.

The power surge against Reds starter Johnny Cueto helped the Dodgers build a 5-0 lead through three innings.

Los Angeles boosted the lead to 7-1 in the fifth on Gibbons’ run-scoring double and Jamey Carroll’s RBI single.

Cincinnati got back into the game with two runs in both the sixth and seventh innings.

Jonathan Broxton pitched the ninth for his 22nd save of the season, but his first since August 3.

Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley (10-7) went 5 2/3 innings and gave up three runs and seven hits. Billingsley struck out seven and walked one.

Andre Ethier had three of Los Angeles’ 12 hits. Joey Votto went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Reds.

Cueto (11-4) gave up five runs and five hits in three innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Cincinnati   LA Dodgers
Johnny Cueto Player Chad Billingsley
Loss W/L Win
3.0 IP 5.2
2 Strikeouts 7
5 Hits 7
15.00 ERA 4.76
Hitting
Cincinnati   LA Dodgers
Ramon Hernandez Player Andre Ethier
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
0 HR 1
3 TB 6
.667 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Cincinnati 9 0 10 .257 14 10 5 2 2 0
LA Dodgers 12 4 25 .324 19 9 8 5 0 1