Another visit to PNC Park, another win for the Dodgers. With a 5-4 victory at Pittsburgh tonight, the Dodgers have won 18 of their 23 games at PNC since the park opened. The win kept the Dodgers tied for first in the NL West with Arizona, who beat the Mets 5-1. San Diego fell to one game back following a 4-3 extra-inning loss at Washington.
TODAY'S TOP THREE DIFFERENCE MAKERS
3) Chad Billingsley- Held down the fort in the sixth and seventh, fanning five in 2.1 innings pitched.
2) Takashi Saito- Got a rare five out save, retiring all batters he faced with three strikeouts.
1) Russell Martin- Hit a solo homer in the sixth to give the Dodgers the winning run. Martin's homer was his third in as many games. He also had a double.
ON THE HORIZON
Tomorrow, it's Hung Chi-Kuo for the Dodgers against Pittsburgh's Ian Snell. Snell held the Dodgers to five hits and two runs on April 21st at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers would eventually win the game 7-3 when Russell Martin hit a grand slam homer to end the game in the tenth inning. After going 2-1 with a 1.59 ERA in April, Snell slumped to 2-3 with a 4.54 ERA in May.
Pittsburgh's Jason Bay homered tonight against Randy Wolf, giving him four homers in his last eight games.
Dodger rookie Tony Abreu had his first Major League RBI in Washington on Thursday night and got two more tonight in Pittsburgh. Against the Pirates, he went 2 for 4, driving in a pair of runs with a double in the fourth off of Zach Duke.
DODGER FLASHBACK
41 years ago tonight, on June 1, 1966, the great Sandy Koufax shut out the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium as the Dodgers won 1-0 over the Cards. The only run of the game was scored in the seventh when speedy Dodger outfielder Willie Davis tripled and came around to score when St. Louis' Bobby Tolan mishandled the ball. Koufax fanned nine in route to his ninth win in 10 decisions on the year. 1-0 decisions weren't a rarity for the Dodger Hall of Famer on the first day of June. Two years previously, he lost a 1-0 decision to Cincinnati's Joey Jay.
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