Read More: Ramon Troncoso (P – LOS), Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves, Sep 4, 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Before Sunday’s series finale at Turner Field in Atlanta, the Los Angeles Dodgers recalled relief pitcher Ramon Troncoso from Triple A Albuquerque. Troncoso gives the Dodgers 16 pitchers, and pushes the active roster to 29 players. More moves are expected in the upcoming week, as Triple A Albuquerque ends their season Monday. Double A Chattanooga will be in the Southern League playoffs, but a few pitchers might be recalled from that level as well.

This is Troncoso’s third stint with the Dodgers this season. He has a 6.23 ERA with three walks and just seven strikeouts in 17 innings, though he showed marked improvement in his second call-up, with a 3.68 ERA in 10 appearances. Troncoso was 2-4 with a 5.05 ERA in 57 innings in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League this season.

Here are the starting lineups in the series finale with the Atlanta Braves:

Dodgers (68-70)

Bourn CF
Prado 1B
Diaz RF
Uggla 2B
Ross C
Gonzalez SS
Wilson 3B
Constanza LF
Delgado P

Braves (81-57)

Gordon SS
Loney 1B
Kemp CF
Rivera LF
Ethier RF
Miles 3B
Barajas C
Sellers 2B
Kershaw P

Sunday morning’s 10:35 a.m. PDT game will be televised on KCAL. For more news and information on the Dodgers, be sure to read True Blue LA.

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers got their first hit with two outs in the ninth inning and still beat the San Diego Padres 1-0 when Dioner Navarro singled in Juan Uribe for the unlikely victory.

Uribe was down to his last strike when he drove a pitch from Luke Gregerson (2-2) over the head of left fielder Chris Denorfia for Los Angeles’ first hit and only the second hit of the game for either team. The Padres have never had a no-hitter in their 43-year history.

Navarro then looped a 3-1 pitch into short right-center to give the Dodgers three consecutive shutout victories for the first time since July 1991. Los Angeles has won nine of its last 19 games, and seven of those victories have been shutouts — including the last five.

Aaron Harang started for San Diego and worked six innings, finishing with six strikeouts and three walks. Josh Spence came on and struck out his only batter, Andre Ethier, before Chad Qualls escaped a jam to keep the game scoreless.

Blake Hawksworth (2-2) pitched a perfect ninth for the win.

BRAVES 4, PHILLIES 1 (11 INNINGS): At Philadelphia, Alex Gonzalez hit the go-ahead RBI single and Brian McCann added a two-run homer in the 11th to lift the Atlanta Braves. It was the second straight extra-inning game for the teams, following Philadelphia’s 3-2 victory in 10 innings Friday. The Braves (54-37) have won 10 of 12.Philadelphia (56-34) remains one win shy of tying the club record for victories in the first half.

CUBS 6, PIRATES 3: At Pittsburgh, Ryan Dempster won for the first time in five starts despite arguing with manager Mike Quade after he was lifted after five innings. Dempster (6-6) was pitching on nine days’ rest after being scratched from his scheduled start Monday because of back pain. He was cleared to start Saturday after making it through a pregame workout Friday without incident. He allowed three runs on seven hits and three walks in five innings and was seen throwing equipment and arguing vehemently with Quade when he was pinch-hit for to lead off the sixth.

ROCKIES 2, NATIONALS 1: At Washington, Ubaldo Jimenez allowed one run in eight innings and Todd Helton homered, doubled and drove in both runs. Jimenez (4-8) retired the first 13 batters before Michael Morse singled with one out in the fifth inning.

MARLINS 6, ASTROS 1: At Miami, Ricky Nolasco tossed a seven-hitter for his sixth career complete game, Logan Morrison hit a bases-loaded triple in Florida’s four-run fifth inning. John Buck added a solo homer for the Marlins.

REDS 8, BREWERS 4 (10 INNINGS): At Milwaukee, Jay Bruce hit a solo homer to start the 10th inning and Cincinnati exploded for five runs to beat the Milwaukee Brewers after the Reds met before the game to clear the air following more than a week of frustration.

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(8-10) Atlanta Braves – 10

(8-10) Los Angeles Dodgers – 1

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Braves Break Out in Walks:

The Braves may have scored 10 runs in a game for only the second time this season, but that wasn’t the most exciting part of the game for the struggling Atlanta offense. The team recorded eight walks.

For a team ranked 13th in the National League in BB% at 7.6%, having eight walks in a game is a pretty solid number. It’s made even better when you factor in a combined seven walks in the three previous games.

The Braves may not have managed much off Hiroki Kuroda in the first five innings, but they did put together three walks over the duration of his outing and made him throw 101 pitches. Kuroda has always been a control pitcher, evident by a 0.87 BB/9 through 20.2 previous innings this season. To get him for three walks and 100+ pitches is good news for an offense that has struggled to do either off any pitcher lately.

Martin Prado walked twice, which is probably the best news of all. Brian McCann also walked twice. Only Jason Heyward and Chipper Jones didn’t reach base from a walk, which I doubt I will ever type again.

Stat of the Day:

Before the game: 0 hits for Braves pinch hitters…Tonight: 3-3, HR, 3 RBI for Braves pinch hitters

The Game Changer:

Martin Prado’s solo homer in the sixth put the Braves ahead 1-0, worth .174 WPA.

WPA Winners:

(ATL) Jonny Venters: .388

(ATL) Brandon Beachy: .353

(ATL) Martin Prado: .210

WPA Losers:

(ATL) Scott Linebrink: -.296

(LAD) Casey Blake: -.225

(LAD) Marcus Thames: -.148

Courtesy of FanGraphs:

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitching staff surrendered four home runs against the Atlanta Braves. Two of them came off Hiroki Kuroda, who had an otherwise solid outing and got no runs to work with while he was in the game.

Kuroda allowed two runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings on Tuesday night before the Braves exploded for eight runs in the ninth against Kenley Jansen and Ramon Troncoso in a 10-1 victory — Brandon Beachy’s first in the majors.

“That’s a tough thing for us because we were down by two, and then we get back in the game in the seventh,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “The final score looks different than what the game really was. It’s a 2-1 game going into the ninth, and then you just can’t stop them.”

Los Angeles got on the board in the seventh against Scott Linebrink when Juan Uribe led off with a scratch single off Linebrink’s glove. Uribe scored from third when third baseman Chipper Jones robbed rookie Jerry Sands of a possible double down the line with a diving stop and threw him out by a step.

“I was a little out of position for where he hit it, because he’s been inside the ball the last two nights and hitting it the other way quite a bit,” Jones said. “Apparently, we ran one in on him and he got around on it. It was just a reaction play, trying to knock it down and keep it on the infield. It stuck, and I made a good enough throw to get him and preserve the lead there.”

The run ended a scoreless streak of 18 2-3 innings by the Braves’ bullpen. Jonny Venters replaced Linebrink, striking out pinch-hitter Marcus Thames and retiring Casey Blake on a bases-loaded grounder after a two-out walk to Jamey Carroll.

In the Braves’ ninth, Eric Hinske batted for Venters and deposited Jansen’s 3-1 pitch into the first row of the lower seats in the right field corner for a two-run homer. It was Hinske’s first of the season and sixth of his career as a pinch-hitter. He also capped the rally with an RBI single after Dan Uggla’s three-run homer off Troncoso and RBI singles by Brian McCann and Alex Gonzalez.

“Those are all major league hitters, and any time anyone can pop it out of the yard,” Dodgers catcher Rod Barajas said. “The guys who hit them tonight, they all have power. They’re not slap guys, who you wouldn’t necessarily say have no power.”

Kuroda, a control specialist who came in averaging 2.02 walks per nine innings during his four-plus seasons in the majors, walked his first two batters in the fifth before starting a 1-6-3 double play on Nate McLouth’s comebacker and retiring Beachy on a groundout with Freddie Freeman at third.

But in the sixth, Martin Prado led off with a drive that barely cleared the fence in left-center. The homer was just the second hit off Kuroda to that point, including Prado’s leadoff single in the first. Kuroda got behind Freeman 2-1 before his next pitch cleared the fence just to the left of center field.

“He went out there and competed. When you give up two solo home runs in seven innings, that’s not a bad outing,” said Barajas, who got the night off while A.J. Hinch caught Kuroda for the third time in his four starts. “Every now and then those mistakes are going to be hit out of the park. But he pounded the strike zone. He struggled in his last outing. And to come back and give us that kind of performance, it was a game we could have won.”

Kuroda was lifted with one on in the seventh when Brooks Conrad came up as a pinch-hitter for Beachy. Kuroda lost a 1-0 decision to Tim Hudson last August in Atlanta when Conrad homered against him in the seventh inning. The right-hander also pitched a one-hit shutout against the Braves at Dodger Stadium on July 7, 2008.

“He throws a four-seamer that can ride up in the zone, a two-seamer that he spots on the outside corner, a tight little slider 85-86 miles an hour and a split that was very effective for him in the first inning,” Jones said. “After that, he had a little trouble throwing it for strikes. That’s a big strikeout pitch for him.”

Andre Ethier hit a two-out double to right field off Jason Heyward’s glove at the warning track with two outs in the first, but was stranded. The hit extended the longest active hitting streak in the majors to 16 games and matched the longest streak of Ethier’s career, which he established as a rookie in 2006.

Beachy (1-1) yielded just two hits over six scoreless innings, struck out seven and walked two in his seventh big league start. He came in with a 5.19 ERA over his three previous outings, including a 6-5 loss on Thursday against Florida at Turner Field in which he was charged with five runs and four walks in 5 1-3 innings.

“It’s not a bad place to get the first win. I don’t think any place would have been a bad place for that, but I think it’s pretty cool that it happened here,” said Beachy, who struck out the side in the fourth. “It took a lot longer than I had hoped to get it, but it feels good.”

Notes: Mattingly will celebrate his 50th birthday on Wednesday. He spent his entire 14-year playing career with the Yankees, who were 6-4 when Mattingly played on his birthday. In those games, he was 12 for 38 with nine RBIs, including home runs on his 26th and 29th birthdays. … Beachy did not give up a home run for the first time this season. The Braves’ staff has gone 50 consecutive innings without allowing a homer.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandon Beachy needed seven starts to get his first win and was happy to have done it at one of the league’s most famous venues.

The 24-year-old right-hander yielded just two hits over six scoreless innings, and the Atlanta Braves got home runs from Martin Prado, Freddie Freeman, Dan Uggla and pinch-hitter Eric Hinske to rout the Dodgers 10-1 on Tuesday night.

Beachy (1-1) struck out seven and walked two. He came in with a 5.19 ERA over his three previous outings this season, including a 6-5 loss on Thursday against Florida at Turner Field in which he was charged with five runs and four walks in 5 1-3 innings.

“It’s not a bad place to get the first win. I don’t think any place would have been a bad place for that, but I think it’s pretty cool that it happened here,” said Beachy, who struck out the side in the fourth with 17 of his 111 pitches. “It took a lot longer than I had hoped to get it, but it feels good. I commanded the fastball tonight, and that was key.”

The Dodgers trimmed Atlanta’s lead to 2-1 in the seventh against Scott Linebrink when Juan Uribe led off with a scratch single off Linebrink’s glove and scored from third when third baseman Chipper Jones robbed rookie Jerry Sands of a possible double down the line with a diving stop and threw him out by a step.

“I was a little out of position for where he hit it, because he’s been inside the ball the last two nights and hitting it the other way quite a bit,” Jones said. “Apparently, we ran one in on him and he got around on it. It was just a reaction play, trying to knock it down and keep it on the infield. It stuck, and I made a good enough throw to get him and preserve the lead there.”

The run ended a scoreless streak of 18 2-3 innings by the Braves’ bullpen. Jonny Venters replaced Linebrink, striking out pinch-hitter Marcus Thames and retiring Casey Blake on a bases-loaded grounder after a two-out walk to Jamey Carroll.

The Braves blew it open with eight runs in the ninth. Hinske batted for Venters in the ninth and deposited Kenley Jansen’s 3-1 pitch into the first row of the lower seats in the right field corner for a two-run homer. It was Hinske’s first of the season and sixth of his career as a pinch-hitter.

Hinske also capped the rally with an RBI single after Uggla’s three-run homer off Ramon Troncoso and RBI singles by Brian McCann and Alex Gonzalez.

“I got into a hitter’s count on the home run — and as a pinch-hitter, that’s all you can ask for,” Hinske said. “I tried to put a good swing on the ball and it just worked out. I believe that’s only the second time in my career that I’ve come up twice in an inning after pinch-hitting. It’s cool to be a part of that.”

Hiroki Kuroda (2-2) allowed two runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings, and was lifted with one on when Brooks Conrad came up as a pinch-hitter for Beachy. Kuroda lost a 1-0 decision to the Braves’ Tim Hudson last August in Atlanta when Conrad homered against him in the seventh inning. The right-hander also pitched a one-hit shutout against the Braves at Dodger Stadium on July 7, 2008.

“That’s a tough thing for us because we were down by two, and then we get back in the game in the seventh,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “The final score looks different than what the game really was. It’s a 2-1 game going into the ninth, and then you just can’t stop them.”

Kuroda, a control specialist who came in averaging 2.02 walks per nine innings during his four-plus seasons in the majors, walked his first two batters in the fifth before starting a 1-6-3 double play on Nate McLouth’s comebacker and retiring Beachy on a groundout with Freeman at third.

But in the sixth, Prado led off with a drive that barely cleared the fence in left-center. The homer was just the second hit off Kuroda to that point, including Prado’s leadoff single in the first. Kuroda got behind Freeman 2-1 before his next pitch cleared the fence just to the left of center field.

Conrad greeted Blake Hawksworth with a single, the first hit by Braves pinch-hitters this season in 26 at-bats to that point.

“We knew it,” Hinske said. “We’ve been talking about it. You know. ‘Come on. Let’s go. We’ve got to start making our money.’ I mean, if you don’t start getting any hits, you won’t be here for very long. So we just tried to make a joke out of it. You can’t be taking it too seriously. You have to have a short memory as a pinch-hitter. It’s almost like being a closer. And ‘Brooksie got the monkey off our backs.”

Prado followed Conrad’s hit with a walk that loaded the bases, but Jason Heyward grounded to first for a force at the plate and Jones popped out.

The Dodgers threatened in the first when Andre Ethier hit a two-out double to right field off Heyward’s glove in the warning track. But Uribe grounded out after an intentional walk to major league batting leader Matt Kemp, who came in 10 for 19 with runners in scoring position. Ethier’s hit extended the longest active hitting streak in the majors to 16 games and match the longest streak of his career, which he established as a rookie in 2006.

Notes: Mattingly will celebrate his 50th birthday on Wednesday. He spent his entire 14-year playing career with the Yankees, who were 6-4 when Mattingly played on his birthday. In those games he was 12 for 38, with nine RBIs, including home runs on his 26th and 29th birthdays. … Beachy did not give up a home run for the first time this season. The Braves’ staff has gone 50 consecutive innings without allowing one.

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Tim Hudson(notes) again had trouble getting through the first few innings, and former teammate Ted Lilly(notes) made it extremely difficult for the Atlanta Braves to recover.

Lilly pitched seven scoreless innings and James Loney(notes) had two RBIs, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-2 victory over the Braves on Monday night in the opener of a 10-game California trip.

The Braves and Dodgers met for the first time since the off-season retirements of managers Bobby Cox and Joe Torre, who are fourth and fifth respectively on the all-time victory list and won a combined six manager of the year awards, five World Series titles and 11 pennants.

Hudson (2-2) gave up four runs and six hits in six innings and struck out four. All 13 runs allowed this season by the right-hander have come during the first three innings. In his previous start against the Dodgers on Aug. 13 in Atlanta, Hudson held them to three hits over eight innings in a 1-0 victory.

“I felt like I should have shut them down in the first inning, to be honest,” Hudson said. “I felt really good. I felt like I had good stuff and that I was locating pretty good. But they put together some good at-bats and found a way to push some runs across. That pitch to Loney, obviously I wish I could take that one back. It’s tough for our club to rebound from a three-spot like that. Lilly pitched a good ballgame and had a nice lead to work with.”

Lilly (1-2) recorded his first victory of the season in four starts, after signing a three-year, $33 million contract in October. The 35-year-old left-hander scattered four hits, struck out six and did not allow a runner past second base.

Hudson and Lilly were teammates in Oakland for half of 2002 and all of 2003. In Game 1 of the 2002 AL division series against Minnesota, Lilly inherited a 5-4 lead from Hudson in the sixth inning and surrendered the tying and go-ahead runs in the Athletics’ 7-5 loss.

“He’s pretty crafty and he changes speeds,” Hudson said. “His fastball isn’t as good as it used to be, but he does a good job of changing your eye level with it and mixing in some changeups, curve balls and cutters. So he’s probably a much better pitcher now, as far as that goes.”

Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez moved Jason Hayward up into the second spot in the order and dropped McLouth from second to eighth as a result of his .212 average. McLouth responded with two doubles, one of which drove in the Braves’ second run in the ninth against Jonathan Broxton(notes).

Andre Ethier(notes) singled in the seventh inning against Jairo Asencio(notes) to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, the longest current streak in the majors and one shy of his career best in 2006. He was hitless in three at-bats against Hudson, and is now 3 for 20 lifetime against the three-time All-Star.

Matt Kemp(notes), who gave the Dodgers a 2-1 victory over St. Louis on Sunday with a walkoff two-run homer in the ninth inning, opened the scoring against Hudson with an RBI single in the first. Loney added a two-run single two batters later, after entering the game batting with a .150 average. Kemp leads the majors with a .459 average and has 13 RBIs in his first 17 games.

Jerry Sands, the Dodgers’ minor league player of the year last season, made his major league debut in left field and was 1 for 4 with a sacrifice fly and two strikeouts. The 23-year-old outfielder-first baseman was a 25th-round draft pick in 2008 out of Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C.

Sands hit an opposite-field double to right his first time up and heard it from the crowd of 28,292—whose cheers quickly turned to moans when Loney was held up at third base by coach Tim Wallach.

The next time Sands came to the plate in the third, he was greeted with chants of Jer-ry! Jer-ry!” before driving in Juan Uribe(notes) with his sac fly to right for the Dodgers’ final run. Those same chants started up again when Sands came up in the sixth, and Hudson buzzed him with a first-pitch fastball that made him duck.

“He signed a ball and sent it over. It was a classy move by him and I appreciate that,” Sands said. “He said ‘Good debut’ and told me it got away from him a little bit. But I wasn’t looking into it at all. I watched him growing up, so that’ll definitely go in the trophy case.”

Lilly sent the Braves a message in the seventh when he threw a pitch behind McLouth and to the screen with two out and the bases empty. Both dugouts received a warning from plate umpire Laz Diaz, and McLouth doubled on the next pitch.

“I think that’s just old-school. The warnings were out, no big deal,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t think anything else will happen the rest of the series. Lilly did what he had to do, and that’s it. Go out and play baseball.”

Brooks Conrad(notes) then batted for Hudson and took a called third strike, ending the seventh and stranding McLouth. Atlanta’s pinch-hitters are 0 for 25, including a gave-ending strikeout by Eric Hinske(notes) while batting for Asencio.

Notes: In June 2007, Hudson was pitching for the Braves when he hit Chicago Cubs leadoff batter Alfonso Soriano(notes) in the back with a pitch in the first inning after Soriano hit three solo homers the previous day against Atlanta’s Lance Cormier(notes). Lilly started the series finale for the Cubs and plunked his third batter, Edgar Renteria(notes), with a retaliatory pitch—precipitating a bench-clearing incident that led to Lilly’s ejection. … Cormier, who signed with the Dodgers as a free agent on Feb. 16, has allowed nine earned runs, 12 hits and four walks over seven innings in his four relief appearances.