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Aug 31, 2006 12:53 am US/Pacific

Dodgers Win 6-Straight Over Slumping Reds

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Greg Maddux earned his 330th win to move into 10th place on the career list, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-3 Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory.

The Dodgers improved to 21-7 in August, matching their highest single-month victory total since the franchise moved west from Brooklyn in 1958. Six of those wins came over Cincinnati for their first season sweep of the Reds while playing in Los Angeles.

Maddux (12-11) allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings while walking none, striking out three and throwing 77 pitches before being relieved by Brett Tomko to start the eighth.

Maddux, who pitched six hitless innings Aug. 3 in Cincinnati in his first game with the Dodgers, is 5-0 against the Reds with a 2.40 ERA this season. He beat them three times while pitching for the Chicago Cubs before being traded to Los Angeles.

The 40-year-old right-hander also drove in two runs with a single and a suicide squeeze, and started double plays in the second and fourth after fielding grounders. Maddux has won 15 Gold Gloves in his career.

The Dodgers maintained their three-game lead in the NL West. The Reds have lost six straight and trail St. Louis by 4 1/2 games in the NL Central.

Maddux brought a .113 batting average to the plate when he lined a two-out single to center off Aaron Harang (13-10) in the second to put Los Angeles ahead for good. The Dodgers made it 2-0 in the fourth on a run-scoring single by Russell Martin.

Julio Lugo hit a one-out double in the fifth and scored on J.D. Drew's triple, making it 3-0. Drew's liner to center got past Ken Griffey Jr. and rolled to the fence, but he was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into an inside-the-park homer.

Jason LaRue snapped an 0-for-30 slump by hitting Maddux's first pitch of the sixth over the left-field fence for his sixth homer.

Wilson Betemit and Martin hit one-out singles in the sixth before Maddux laid down a perfect bunt, driving in Betemit. Maddux received a standing ovation as he left the field.

The Reds made it 4-2 in the seventh on a double by Edwin Encarnacion and an RBI single by Scott Hatteberg. With two outs and two on, pinch-hitter Javier Valentin hit a liner that appeared headed for right field, but first baseman Nomar Garciaparra lunged to knock the ball down and underhanded to Maddux for the out.

The Dodgers hit three solo homers in the eighth, with Betemit connecting off Scott Schoeneweis and pinch-hitter Olmedo Saenz and Rafael Furcal going back-to-back against Matt Belisle.

An RBI single by pinch-hitter Todd Hollandsworth cut it to 7-3 in the ninth.

Harang allowed 10 hits and four runs in six innings. He walked two and struck out seven.

(© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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