PHOENIX Diamondbacks sneak past Dodgers



Arizona snapped an eight-game losing streak.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Shea Hillenbrand didn't feel like gloating after the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was too close for that.
"The situation wasn't easy," Hillenbrand said after his single lifted the Diamondbacks to a 2-1 win over the Dodgers in 15 innings Friday night.
"You've got to realize that those pitchers can make good pitches and get guys out. Our whole team did awesome -- no errors, great pitching, great defense."
The Diamondbacks snapped a six-game losing streak with the win, their sixth in 12 extra-inning games this year. The Dodgers played their second straight after beating Colorado 1-0 in 11 innings Thursday.
Dodgers lack offense
"When you only get one [run] -- we've done it in nine, tonight it's 15 -- the other team has to get zero or there's no way you can win," Los Angeles manager Jim Tracy said.
Hillenbrand was 0-for-5 in the game and 0-for-5 against Dodgers reliever Paul Quantrill (1-3) until his line drive into the leftfield corner with two out.
David Dellucci, who struck out as a pinch-hitter in the 10th, scored from third after singling to open the inning.
The Dodgers nearly broke the 1-all tie in their half when Arizona reliever Stephen Randolph (5-0) walked Shawn Green and Paul Lo Duca with one out. Randolph got Alex Cora on a groundout and fielded Jeromy Burnitz's attempted sacrifice bunt to throw Burnitz out at first.
"It's just not that tough, whether you do it or don't do it," Burnitz said. "You just have to bunt it to third base and not the pitcher."
Matt Kata homered in the fourth off Dodgers starter Odalis Perez for Arizona's first run.
Burnitz homered off Randy Johnson in the second, the only glitch in Johnson's eight impressive innings in his first home start since April 11.
Luis Gonzalez, who went 0-for-3 against Perez, doubled off Tom Martin in the ninth and Eric Gagne in the 11th.
But Steve Finley popped up to left field and Junior Spivey hit a grounder to third off Paul Shuey, allowing Adrian Beltre to easily tag Gonzalez for the third out of the ninth.
Two innings later, Gonzalez hit a two-out double, but was stranded again when Hillenbrand grounded out.
Not hitting when it counts
The Dodgers showed even less punch late in the game.
Johnson, Eddie Oropesa, Jose Valverde, Matt Mantei, Oscar Villareal and Randolph retired 22 batters in a row after Johnson gave up a single to Beltre leading off the eighth before Randolph broke the spell by walking Green and Lo Duca.
Green hit a pitch to the warning track in center off Mantei in the 12th, but Finley ran it down. In the 13th, Hillenbrand dived to his right to stop Burnitz's hard grounder and throw him out.
In his second start since surgery on his right knee May 1, Johnson allowed one run on three hits and a walk, striking out six.
But he left the game with a 1-1 tie because of the mistake to Burnitz. Johnson also gave up a solo shot to San Diego's Lou Merloni on Sunday, when his return after 21/2 months of rehabilitation was spoiled by a 3-2 loss to the Padres.