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Haren Has Another Rough Outing As Dodgers Fall To Padres 6-3

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carlos Quentin drove in three runs, Alexi Amarista homered and Jesse Hahn pitched six solid innings, leading the San Diego Padres to a 6-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.

Hahn (5-2) allowed a run and three hits, struck out six and walked four in his seventh major league start. The 24-year-old right-hander has a 1.46 ERA over his last six outings since Pittsburgh beat him 4-1 on June 3 in his big league debut at Petco Park.

Padres right-hander Blaine Boyer took over for Hahn, giving up a leadoff double to Drew Butera and a walk to Carl Crawford. That ended Boyer's season-opening string of 26 consecutive plate appearances by right-handed batters without a hit or a walk -- the longest such streak since STATS LLC. began tracking data in 1974.

First-time All-Star Yasiel Puig chased Boyer with an RBI double, the first run off him this season in 14 innings. Adrian Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly against Alex Torres, but Quentin turned it into an inning-ending double play by throwing to third baseman Chase Headley for the tag on the over-aggressive Puig after Dee Gordon crossed the plate.

Joaquin Benoit escaped an eighth-inning jam, striking out Juan Uribe and Miguel Rojas with runners at second and third and retiring Crawford on a fielder's choice grounder with the bases loaded after a full-count walk to pinch-hitter A.J. Ellis.

Huston Street pitched a perfect ninth for his 24th save in 25 chances.

Quentin, who entered Friday batting .165 with 14 RBIs in 42 games, hit an RBI double in the fifth off Dan Haren and extended the Padres' lead to 6-1 in the sixth with a bases-loaded two-run single against Jamey Wright. The three RBIs gave the Padres' left fielder two more than he had in his previous 34 at-bats combined.

The Dodgers' third loss in four games, coupled with San Francisco's 5-0 win over Arizona, dropped the defending NL West champions into a virtual tie with the Giants for the division lead.

Haren (8-6) gave up four runs and six hits in his third start against the Padres and second loss to them in three weeks, throwing 102 pitches in four-plus innings. He came in 4-1 with a 2.96 ERA in his eight previous home starts this year.

Matt Kemp opened the scoring in the Dodgers' first with an RBI single, but the Padres responded in the second with Amarista's third home run after Will Venable reached on a strikeout-wild pitch past Butera.

Haren has allowed 19 homers -- tying the Padres' Eric Stults for second-most in the NL behind the 27 served up by Milwaukee's Marco Estrada.

The Padres increased the margin to 4-1 with two runs in the fifth. Headley, whose homer in Thursday's series opener ended Clayton Kershaw's string of 41 consecutive scoreless innings, drove in Seth Smith from first base with a double. Quentin followed with another double on Haren's 103rd and final pitch.

NOTES: Former Dodgers assistant general manager Kim Ng was the eighth candidate interviewed by the Padres to replace fired general manager Josh Byrnes. Ng, currently the senior vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball, is attempting to become the first female general manager of any major pro sport. Dodgers vice president of amateur scouting Logan White also was interviewed for the job. So was Padres senior vice president of baseball operations Omar Minaya, the former Mets and Montreal Expos GM. ... Haren has allowed at least one home run in 11 of his last 12 starts. But none of the last 30 home runs hit against him have come with more than one man on base. ... The Padres' rotation has a 1.74 ERA over the last 11 games.
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