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06/29/08 2:15 AM ET

How the Dodgers won without a hit

Kemp's aggressive baserunning, DeWitt's sac fly plate lone run

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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers are used to getting great pitching, and just as used to struggling for offense. That trend continued on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium, but the result was something extraordinary, as an opportunistic fifth frame gave the Dodgers a 1-0 win over the Angels in a game the winning team collected no hits.

The only run of the game came when Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp took advantage of two errors in the fifth inning to reach third base and Blake DeWitt drove him home with a sacrifice fly.

"It's amazing, that if you do little things right," said Dodgers catcher Russell Martin. "Just like [when we had a] runner at third base, less than two outs -- big at-bat by Blake DeWitt just to get a pitch elevated in the zone, get it out to the outfield. And that was the key to the game right there. [We took] advantage of their mistakes,"

The fifth inning started when Kemp hit what Dodgers announcer Vin Scully called a "little squirt job [with] English all over it" on a 1-0 count. Angels starter Jered Weaver tried to field the ball with his glove, about halfway to first base, but he couldn't pick it up. The play was ruled an error -- keeping Weaver's no-hitter intact -- but now the Dodgers had a baserunner.

"The motion on the ball, it was crazy, so it was a pretty hard play for him," Kemp said. "I'm glad he booted the ball so we could get a run there."

With opportunities looking scarce in what was a scoreless game up to that point, Kemp tried to make something happen. He took off for second on a 0-1 count to DeWitt.

Angels catcher Jeff Mathis' throw sailed. The ball flew past both shortstop Erick Aybar and second baseman Howie Kendrick, who was backing up the play, into center field, and Kemp advanced to third.

"I knew I had to try to get in scoring position to get something going," Kemp said. "So it all worked out in our favor tonight."

DeWitt said he saw Kemp get a good jump out of the corner of his eye, so he took the pitch. On the next delivery from Weaver, with the count 1-1, DeWitt got a changeup up in the strike zone. He elevated the offering deep to right field to bring home Kemp for the only run of the evening.

"I saw the infield in, so you're looking for a pitch you can get up in the air," DeWitt said. "Obviously, they want you to hit a ground ball in that situation, so [you have to] look for a ball up in the zone and just stay off the ground."

And with Dodgers pitchers Chad Billingsley, Jonathan Broxton and Takashi Saito throwing up zeroes of their own, that's all the Dodgers needed.

Michael Schwartz is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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