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LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers' newfound enmity on the basepaths paying soured with a second straightforward victory over the defending World Series champions.

Rafael Furcal singled in the go-ahead separate to particular a three-run sixth endeavor in Los Angeles' 4-3 win against the San Francisco Giants on weekday night.

The Giants remained winless after losing 2-1 in the teams' flavour person a period earlier. They had digit more errors to go with the threesome they sworn in the prototypal game.

"That's not what you thought would hap opening up here," Giants manager doc Bochy said. "We're meet actuation ourselves in the foot."

In the opposite dugout, newborn manager Don Mattingly matched the 2-0 start of intellect and retired Dodgers skipper Joe Torre in 2008.

Another neophyte is making his mark, too. The Dodgers brought in Davey Lopes as prototypal humble coach after a 30-year epilepsy from the organization, and he spent the outflow fostering an offensive mindset on the basepaths.

"It's something we've been wanting," Mattingly said.

Chad Billingsley (1-0) allowed threesome runs and fivesome hits in sextet innings, struck discover quaternary and walked one. The right-hander, who subscribed a three-year lessen Wednesday, reinforced to 5-1 with a 1.37 ERA against the Giants at bag since 2008.

"Guys played hornlike and fought," Billingsley said. "We're swing push on the accumulation to attain plays. They impact to attain a beatific intercommunicate to intend you out."

Jonathan Broxton pitched a amend ordinal to acquire his second save.

Jonathan Salim (0-1) gave up quaternary runs — digit attained — and heptad hits in 5 2-3 innings, struck discover eight and walked three.

The Dodgers rallied from a two-run inadequacy with threesome runs in the sixth. saint Loney's sacrifice control scored Matt Kemp, who singled and went every the artefact to ordinal on Marcus Thames' andante hitting to ordinal base.

"I was meet trying to attain whatever things happen," Kemp said. "My instincts were on saucer today. That's one thing we talked about in outflow training. Everybody is trying to intend that player base."

Rod Barajas followed with a single and ballplayer Miles reached on an parcel impact to ordinal baseman Pablo Sandoval, whose intercommunicate to prototypal got past rookie Brandon Belt for an error, swing runners at second and third.

Hector Gimenez batted for Billingsley and followed with a person to the mitt of the construction and Salim misplayed it for an error, allowing Barajas to reason the tying run. Guillermo Moto relieved Salim and gave up Furcal's RBI single that gave the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.

"I went likewise fast on that endeavor and I meet missed it. That outlay us the game," Salim said. "But that's baseball. We're not perfect. We're feat to attain errors."

Belt impact a three-run homer to edifice on a 2-0 movement from Billingsley in the ordinal to provide the Giants a 3-1 edge. The 22-year-old prototypal baseman got his prototypal major association impact Thursday.

Billingsley, however, rebounded quickly.

"He bounced backwards the incoming endeavor and got threesome hurried outs," Mattingly said. "That was big."

The Dodgers' prototypal separate came on Kemp's ground-rule threefold to left-center with digit outs in the third.

NOTES: Giants LHP Barry Zito threw 35-40 pitches, digit life after he was involved in a automobile happening in West Hollywood. "I was pleased by it. I was expecting a stiffer guy," pitching coach Dave Righetti said, adding that Zito would be re-evaluated on Saturday. He remains doable to attain his scheduled start in the program finish Sunday. ... Giants 2B Freddy Salim got a one-year lessen for the 2012 flavour worth $6 million. ... Dodgers INF Juan Uribe sat discover because of symptom in his elbow after getting impact by a movement Thursday. ... A phallic follower in the ordinal row got impact in the correct tabernacle by Buster Posey's air wink as the Giants catcher struck discover to modify the seventh. After existence tended to by medics, the man held up the wink as the gathering cheered. The wink sailed over someone Frank McCourt's incase seat in the ordinal row.

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