Rafael Furcal and Matt Kemp drove in four runs each as the Dodgers extended their win streak to seven, rallying with a seven-run sixth inning for an 11-6 victory over the Rockies at frigid Coors Field.

The game-time temperature was 40 degrees with a wind-chill factor of 31 degrees, cold enough for the Dodgers to cut short batting practice and for broadcaster Charley Steiner to close the press-box window for the first time in his career.

But the hot streaks continued. Furcal homered, Kemp doubled twice and Brad Penny (5-2) beat the Rockies for the ninth consecutive time, raising his career record against them to 14-2, even though he spotted them a 3-0 lead and pitched only five innings.

Penny was pitching to horseshoe partner and backup catcher Gary Bennett because manager Joe Torre gave Russell Martin his first Major League start at third base. Martin looked pretty natural in his first start there since 2002, making four plays without an error, including one that saved two runs.

One of five Dodgers with at least two hits, Martin raised an average that was .235 eight days ago to .295. He's been as much a part of the recent resurgence as anyone while the Dodgers have gone 8-1 since an April 23 team meeting.

"We're pulling for each other a little more," Martin said. "I don't know if it was what was said in the meeting, but we're playing good baseball. Early on, we had too many guys struggling in the lineup and it was hard to string together hits and runs. Now everybody has warmed up. You put up good at-bats and it wears down pitchers."

The good at-bats in the seven-run sixth started with a Juan Pierre single and an RBI double by Kemp. It included a two-run pinch-hit single by Blake DeWitt, then a three-run homer by Furcal (he leads the club with four). Kemp provided needed insurance with a bases-clearing double in a four-run eighth.

"We knew we could play like this," said Kemp, hitting .316 with a team-high 21 RBIs. "You look at the lineup, there was no excuse the way we started out."

Prior to the team meeting of the 23rd, the Dodgers had dropped to seven games behind Arizona and four games below .500. They've trimmed the deficit to four games and are a season-high three games above .500. Four of the wins have come against Colorado, which has lost six of its last seven games.

Things unraveled for the Rockies in the sixth when starter Jeff Francis hit the 100-pitch mark and was removed by manager Clint Hurdle before he could face Andruw Jones, who had struck out twice. Jones fanned for a third time facing reliever Ryan Speier, but Mark Sweeney walked, DeWitt plated two while batting for Penny, and Furcal homered (three hits raised his average to a team-high .380).

That gave Penny the victory, although this was not his finest outing.

"I thought he was feeling for it the first couple of innings," Torre said. "He walked four, that's uncharacteristic. He didn't look like he was getting into it, but he pitched well enough to win."

Barely. Struggling with his grip in the cold and lacking customary velocity and command, he walked four (two of them scored) with only one strikeout and served up a solo homer to Todd Helton.

"But the guys came back for me," said Penny. "When you're going good, everything works out for you." DeWitt stayed in the game at third base with Martin moving behind the plate, but DeWitt quickly committed two physical errors and a mental one that led to three unearned runs, trimming the Dodgers' lead to 7-6. DeWitt has committed three errors in the last two games.

The Dodgers defense turned three double-plays, including a crucial one to minimize the damage in the seventh that required an acrobatic pivot by Furcal to complete.

Cory Wade, Joe Beimel and Chan Ho Park followed Penny. Despite the four-run eighth, which opened with Jones' opposite-field double, Torre had Takashi Saito warming up in the bullpen in the ninth with a five-run lead. This was, after all, Coors Field.

"A four- or five-run lead in this park," said Torre, "is a save situation."