NATIONAL LEAGUE Long ball helps Rockies trip Dodgers, 5-3

Todd Helton and Preston Wilson slammed homers for the streaking Rockies.
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DENVER -- Todd Helton hit his third homer in two games and drove in two runs, and Preston Wilson homered and stole a potential tying home run from David Ross Saturday as the Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3.
Colorado has won four straight and eight of 12 to tie Los Angeles for third in the NL West.
Jolbert Cabrera had two homers for Los Angeles, which lost for the 12th time in 16 games.
Colorado took an early 4-0 lead, but Los Angeles cut it in half on homers by Alex Cora and Cabrera.
The Dodgers nearly tied it in the seventh, but Wilson reached over the wall in center to pull back what would have been a two-run homer by Ross.
Wilson got a series of high-five greetings from his teammates and received a standing ovation from the crowd as he made his way to the dugout.
Wilson blasts 23rd
Wilson hit a solo homer in the eighth inning, his 23rd, and drove in the game's first run with a double in the first to become just the 10th player in league history to reach 90 RBIs before the All-Star break.
Toronto's Carlos Delgado, who leads the majors with 95, became the ninth last week.
Helton is 16-for-33 with six homers and 13 RBIs during a nine-game hitting streak, which started one game after a 17-game hitting streak ended.
The All-Star first baseman has 123 hits, one shy of Dante Bichette's team record for most before the All-Star break, and became the second Rockies player to reach 700 RBIs.
Rockies starter Jason Jennings (9-6) was coming off one of his worst starts of the year, but didn't show any lingering effects.
Breezed through four
He breezed through the first four innings, allowing just one base-runner -- on an error by third baseman Mark Bellhorn -- and let only two balls get out of the infield.
Adrian Beltre had the Dodgers' first hit on a soft liner to right to put runners on first and second with one out in the fifth, but Jennings got Ross to pop out and struck out pitcher Andy Ashby.
Cora gave Los Angeles its first run in the sixth inning with his first homer of the year, and Cabrera made it 5-3 in the seventh.
Jennings, who gave up six runs in 5 2/3 innings Monday against Arizona, allowed two runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings. Last year's NL Rookie of the Year is 6-1 over his last eight starts and 6-0 at Coors Field this season.
Speier gets save
Justin Speier gave up Cabrera's sixth homer in the ninth before finishing for his fifth save.
Helton put Colorado up 2-0 in the third with a solo homer that curled just inside the foul pole in right. It was his 20th of the year and sixth in the past three games against the Dodgers.
Ronnie Belliard made it 3-0 in the fifth on a double that went over Cabrera's head after he charged the ball. Helton followed with a run-scoring single to right on a 1-2 count.
Ashby (2-6), making his 300th appearance in the majors, allowed four runs on eight hits and struck out six in five innings.
LOS ANGELESCOLORADO
abrhbiabrhbi
Izturis ss4000Blliard 2b4121
Cora 2b4111Bllhorn 3b4110
ShGren rf3010Helton 1b4122
L Duca 1b4010PrWlsn cf4122
Hrmns lf4000LWalkr rf4010
JoCbra cf3222Payton lf3010
Beltre 3b4020Estlella c3000
Ross c4000Uribe ss2100
Ashby p2000JJnngs p2000
Mota p0000SReed p0000
LBrnes ph1000MaSwy ph1010
Qantrill p0000Fentes p0000
TMartn p0000Speier p0000
Shuey p0000
Knkade ph1000
Totals34373Totals315105
Los Angeles000001101--3
Colorado10102001x--5
E--Bellhorn (7), Estalella (4). DP--Los Angeles 1. LOB--Los Angeles 6, Colorado 3. 2B--Beltre (22), Belliard (19), PrWilson (32). 3B--Belliard (1). HR--Cora (1), JoCabrera 2 (6), Helton (20), PrWilson (23). SB--ShGreen (3), Bellhorn (5), Payton (5). CS--Helton (2).
IPHRERBBSO
Los Angeles
Ashby L,2-6584416
Mota100002
Quantrill110003
TMartin2-300002
Shuey1-311100
Colorado
JJennings W,9-66 1-352205
SReed2-300001
Fuentes2-300011
Speier S,51 1-321101
HBP--by JJennings (JoCabrera). WP--Ashby. Umpires--Home, Jeff Nelson; First, Kevin Kelley; Second, Tim Tschida; Third, Alfonso Marquez. T--2:47. A--41,696.