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Gibbons hits 2-run homer in 11th inning to give Dodgers 4-2 win over Houston Astros

Jay Gibbons hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped a six-game slide with a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Friday night.Matt Kemp singled before Gibbons connected against Fernando Abad (0-1), hitting a drive over the wall in right-center for his fourth homer. Gibbons also had a pinch-hit RBI single in the sixth that gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead.Octavio Dotel (3-3) struck out three in two scoreless innings for the win. Humberto Quintero singled with two outs, but Dotel struck out Angel Sanchez to end the game.Michael Bourn had three hits and two RBIs for Houston, which had won three straight. Rookie Brett Wallace went 2 for 3.Bourn singled in a run in the seventh, tying it at 2, but was caught in a rundown to end the inning. Wallace set up the run with a one-out double off Ronald Belisario that rolled up the hill in center field before bouncing off the wall.Bourn also tripled with one out in the 10th before Dotel struck out Jeff Keppinger and Hunter...

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