Dodgers 4, Astros 2
Jay Gibbons hit a two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-2 triumph over the Houston Astros and snap their six-game losing streak.
Gibbons added an RBI single and Rod Barajas collected three hits and scored a run for the Dodgers, who improved to 1-4 on their season-high 10-game road trip.
Matt Kemp led off the 11th with a single off Fernando Abad (0-1) and Gibbons deposited a 1-1 offering over the right-center field wall for his fourth home run of the year. Gibbons had entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the sixth.
Octavio Dotel (3-3) tossed two scoreless innings for the win. The former Astro escaped a jam in the 10th, striking out Jeff Keppinger and Hunter Pence with a runner on third and one out.
The game remained scoreless until the fifth, when Jamey Carroll plated Barajas with a two-out single for a 1-0 Dodgers lead. Houston answered in the bottom of the inning on Michael Bourn's RBI base hit.
Los Angeles moved back ahead in the sixth as Kemp led off with a triple and scored on Gibbons' single. But Bourn came through again in the eighth, driving in pinch-runner Anderson Hernandez with two outs to forge a 2-2 tie.
Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda failed to go seven innings for the first time in seven starts, allowing one run and four hits in six frames. J.A. Happ needed 102 pitches to get through five innings for the Astros, giving up one run and seven hits.
Bourn recorded three hits for Houston, which had won five straight at home.