PHOENIX -- Friday night's game got out of hand by virtue of its length, but umpires tried to assure it wouldn't get out of hand in another way.

Before the game started, crew chief Jerry Crawford summoned managers Grady Little of the Dodgers and Bob Melvin of the Diamondbacks to the umpires' dressing room for a "non-warning" warning, because these clubs have a history of batters hit by pitches from earlier this year.

Generally, in the game immediately following an incident, umpires will call such a meeting and issue formal warnings that could lead to immediate ejections of pitchers for any act during a game considered intentional.

"This wasn't an official warning," said Little. "But he made it clear there would be no tolerance."

Better late than never, perhaps, because most of the fireworks occurred earlier in the season, involving many players that are no longer on either team.

The official count of hit batters reached 14 on Friday night when Arizona's Johnny Estrada was hit by a Takashi Saito pitch in the 11th inning immediately after the Diamondbacks tied the game at 7, moving the potential winning run to second base. Clearly, it was unintentional.

However, in a season when the Dodgers have been hit by 35 pitches, nine of them by the Diamondbacks (26 percent) -- the clubs have played only 10 percent of their games against each other. That includes Nomar Garciaparra being hit four times in one series and three times in one game.

The only ejections have been two Dodgers -- Tim Hamulack and Danys Baez, who is now with the Braves and currently disabled after undergoing an appendectomy. D-Backs pitcher Enrique Gonzalez has hit Dodgers batters the most -- three times -- yet he has a total of only four hit batters in 88 innings.

Carrara out, Hamulack back: Giovanni Carrara allowed a run on Friday night in two-thirds of an inning, which meant he had been scored upon in seven of his last eight appearances, and that wasn't acceptable.

So management designated the popular Carrara for assignment early Saturday and recalled lefty Hamulack from Triple-A Las Vegas. Hamulack arrived during batting practice.

Little said if Carrara is not claimed by another club in the next 10 days, he would rejoin the Dodgers after rosters expand in September.

"He's been struggling a little bit and this is not the time for somebody to go through struggles," Little said of Carrara. "Hamulack has been doing very well, and we feel like we could use another left-hander in the 'pen, so we made the move."

Hamulack was selected ahead of left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo, in part because Kuo's experiment as a starter is going so well, management doesn't want to tamper with success. Kuo is expected to return in September as well.

Hamulack made the Opening Day roster out of Spring Training, but he was sent to Triple-A on June 4 with an 0-2 record, 6.57 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 24 innings. At Las Vegas, he was 0-1 with a 1.42 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 38 innings.

Carrara leaves with one save and an ERA that soared from 2.16 to 5.04 during the eight-game, three-week stretch from Aug. 5-25. This was his third tour with the Dodgers.

Speaking of left-handers: Joe Beimel, who was unavailable on Friday night because of a sore arm, said he improved enough to be available for Saturday night. Beimel threw only 12 pitches on Wednesday night after Brad Penny's fifth-inning ejection, his first outing since being extended to 44 pitches six days earlier. He said the soreness and stiffness lingered, despite Thursday's off-day.

"I figured it was better to take a day off than end up getting hurt," said Beimel. "I've been up a lot lately. It's almost September, and the arm is not bouncing back as good as it was in April. But I can't complain. I'm getting used."

Beimel arrived in Los Angeles from Las Vegas on May 1. Despite missing the first half of the season, he's made 45 appearances and thrown 53 innings with a 3.57 ERA.

More left-handers: As Friday night's game went into the ridiculous late hours, Beimel headed down to the bullpen sore arm and all, and he wasn't alone.

Mark Hendrickson, scheduled to start on Monday night, was also told to put on spikes and prepare to be the emergency long man. Even though that wasn't necessary, as Aaron Sele pitched the last 3 2/3 innings, Hendrickson was designated the emergency long man for Saturday night.

If it does not appear that Hendrickson will be needed, he will probably have his regular between-starts bullpen session during Saturday's game.

Coming up: Chad Billingsley (4-3, 3.19 ERA) opposes Livan Hernandez (10-10, 5.19) in Sunday's series finale at 1:40 p.m. PT.