Giants upended
By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Greg Maddux won his fourth straight decision and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped the San Francisco Giants’ five-game winning streak with a 14-7 victory Saturday night.
Maddux retired the final 22 Giants batters in his previous start last Sunday at Dodger Stadium, then 10 straight to start Saturday’s outing before Omar Vizquel blooped a one-out single to shallow right in the fourth. If the two were added together for 32 straight outs, Maddux had five more than a 27-out perfect game.
Jeff Kent and Andre Ethier each hit two-run triples and Maddux added a double, a run scored and a sacrifice fly in the Dodgers’ seven-run second. Ethier finished 4-for-5 with three RBIs and J.D. Drew added a two-run single in the eighth to go with his RBI single in the second.
Maddux (11-11) struck out six in six innings and didn’t walk a batter for the second straight game and is 2-0 since coming to the Dodgers in a trade from the Chicago Cubs on July 31. The 40-year-old right-hander pitched six strong innings for first-place Los Angeles, which lost Friday’s series opener 7-3 for only its third defeat in 20 games.
Moises Alou hit a three-run homer in the fourth for the last-place Giants, sending the first pitch from Maddux into the seats in left-center for his 14th of the year. Vizquel’s single started a stretch of four straight hits against Maddux, who gave up a single to Ray Durham, Todd Linden’s RBI double and Alou’s homer before getting the next two outs.
Durham pulled San Francisco within 10-6 when he hit a two-run triple in the fifth.Eliezer Alfonzo hit a solo homer leading off the seventh for the Giants.
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