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9th Inning Woes Cost Brewers Again

This Time Gagne Not to Blame

By Associated Press

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee's beleaguered bullpen blew another game, this time without the help of Eric Gagne. Juan Pierre hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame a three-run deficit to beat the Brewers 6-4 Wednesday night and stop a season-high, six-game losing streak. Los Angeles had been 0-18 when trailing after eight innings. Milwaukee has lost 10 games in which it led at some point. Milwaukee was ahead 4-3 in the ninth when Mota entered. He had gotten his first save of the season Monday as Gagne took a two-day "mental break" from closing. Brewers manager Ned Yost had said before the game that Gagne, who has five blown saves, would be available for the ninth but Mota (1-2) entered. He walked Delwyn Young with one out and allowed a single to Andre Ethier that put runners on the corners. Pierre drove a pitch deep to left-center to put Los Angeles ahead 5-4, stole third and scored on Andruw Jones' groundout. It was just the sixth RBI of the season for Jones, who is hitting .179. Joe Beimel and Jonathan Broxton (2-1) combined on a perfect eighth for the Dodgers, and Takashi Saito threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his sixth save, ending Milwaukee's three-game winning streak. Dodgers starter Derek Lowe allowed four runs and six hits in six innings, while Milwaukee's Manny Parra gave up three runs -- one earned -- and seven hits in 6 2-3 innings. Parra's two-run single and Jason Kendall's RBI single built a 3-0 lead in the second. Blake DeWitt hit a solo homer for the Dodgers in the fifth, but Corey Hart's RBI single made it 4-1 in the sixth. Los Angeles closed with a pair of unearned runs with two outs in the seventh. First baseman Prince Fielder bobbled pinch-hitter Mark Sweeney's grounder for a run-scoring error, and Pierre chased Parra with an RBI single, a ball to shallow left that Ryan Braun unsuccessfully tried to catch with a dive. Dodgers 6, Brewers 4 LOS ANGELES .@. MILWAUKEE .. @. ab r h bi . ....... .@ab r h bi Pierre lf 5 1 3 3 MCmrn cf 4 0 0 0 Saito p 0 0 0 0 Hardy ss 4 1 1 0 AJones cf 5 0 2 1 Braun lf 4 0 0 0 Kemp rf 5 0 0 0 Fielder 1b 3 1 1 0 Kent 2b 4 0 0 0 Hart rf 4 1 2 1 Martin c 3 0 1 0 Mota p 0 0 0 0 Loney 1b 4 0 1 0 BHall 3b 4 0 0 0 Dewitt 3b 3 2 1 1 Cunsell 2b 2 1 0 0 Hu ss 3 1 1 0 Parra p 3 0 1 2 DeYng ph 0 1 0 0 Riske p 0 0 0 0 Maza ss 0 0 0 0 Torres p 0 0 0 0 DLowe p 2 0 0 0 Shouse p 0 0 0 0 MaSwy ph 1 0 0 0 Kapler rf 1 0 0 0 Proctor p 0 0 0 0 Kendall c 3 0 1 1 Beimel p 0 0 0 0 Brxton p 0 0 0 0 Ethier lf 1 1 1 0 Totals ...@36.6 10.5 Totals ....@32.4.6.4 Los Angeles ... ... ... 000 010 203--6 Milwaukee ... ... .....030 001 000--4 E--Fielder (4). DP--Los Angeles 1, Milwaukee 1. LOB--Los Angeles 6, Milwaukee 5. 2B--Pierre (5). HR--Dewitt (3). SB--Pierre (14), Hart (6). CS--Pierre (2). IP H R ER BB SO ..Los Angeles ... ... ... ...... @... ... DLowe 6 6 4 4 3 6 Proctor 1 0 0 0 1 2 Beimel 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Broxton W,2-1 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 Saito S,6 1 0 0 0 0 2 ..Milwaukee ... ... ... ... ... @... ... Parra 6 2-3 7 3 1 2 4 Riske 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 Torres 1-3 1 0 0 0 0 Shouse 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Mota L,1-2 1 2 3 3 1 1 WP--Parra. Umpires--Home, James Hoye; First, Ed Hickox; Second, C.B. Bucknor; Third, Joe West. T--3:04. A--27,562 (41,900). (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-05-14-08 2215CDT