San Francisco- The Los Angeles Dodgers concluded their three-game weekend series with the San Francisco Giants by defeating the San Francisco Giants 6-3 Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park.With the score tied 1-1 in the sixth inning Jeff Kent of the Los Angeles Dodgers hot a solo home run, but the San Francisco Giants came right back in the bottom half of the inning as Mike Matheny of the San Francisco Giants singled in Pedro Feliz of the San Francisco Giants to make the score 2-2, in the eighth inning the Los Angeles Dodgers broke the game open as relief pitcher Steve Kline of the San Francisco Giants committed a two-base throwing error on Kenny Lofton's of the Los Angeles Dodgers fielders choice, in which the ball went off the glove of Omar Vizquel of the San Francisco Giants and into shallow left as the shortstop covered third, allowing two runs to score, with Lofton still on base Nomar Garciaparra of the Los Angeles Dodgers singled to score Kenny Lofton of the Los Angeles Dodgers and make it 5-2, in the top half of the ninth inning the Los Angeles Dodgers added another run as Rafael Furcal of the Los Angeles Dodgers singled in Russell Martin of the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the bottom half of the frame Ray Durham of the San Francisco Giants launched a solo homer to conclude the scoring.Jae Seo of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched six strong innings allowing only three hits and one run, before Odalis Perez (4-1) of the Los Angeles Dodgers who was making his first relief appearance in nearly five years came on to pitch the seventh and earn the win, Joe Beimel of the Los Angeles Dodgers got the final six outs to record his first career save, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Ginats went homerless and still stands one home run behind Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees for second place on the all-time homer list, Bonds went 0-for-2 with two walks. He drew his 17th intentional walk of the season in the first, grounded out to the pitcher to end the third in a six-pitch at-bat, walked again in the sixth and popped out to third in the eighth before Jason Ellison of the San Francisco Giants replaced him in left field to start the ninth.Despite his struggles at the palet this season thus far Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants still leads the majors in on base percentage.The San Francisco Giants wasted another strong performance from staff ace pitcher Jason Schmidt who threw seven innings and gave up two runs and three hits, he had won his three previous starts and had went 23 innings without issuing a walk until Jose Cuz Jr. of the Los Angeles Dodgers received a free pass from him.Nomar Garciaparra has a nine game hitting streak and has 13 runs batted in during the streak, the Los Angeles Dodgers improved their record to 19-19 and moved within three games of the first place San Diego Padres, and will next face the Colorado Rockies in a three-game series beginning Monday May 15th at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado.
