Kuo's arm, and bat, help Dodgers win The pitcher, Betemit and Kemp hit successive home runs. By AL BALDERAS The Orange County Register LOS ANGELES Hong-Chih Kuo is continuing to get better as a pitcher — and a hitter. 小小郭投打越来越棒 Kuo, Wilson Betemit and Matt Kemp hit second-inning home runs off New York Mets pitcher John Maine, leading the Dodgers to a 4-1 victory Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Maine被小小郭等人干了三响炮 The victory allowed the Dodgers to creep back to percentage points behind first-place San Diego Padres. The Padres lost their fourth consecutive game and have a .571 winning percentage (36-27). The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks are in a virtual tie with the Padres but have a winning percentage of .569. 躲人胜率只差第一名的教士队0.02 Kuo pitched seven strong innings, scattering five hits. But the talk in the clubhouse centered more on Kuo's home run. 小小郭投的很棒,不过大家只记得他开轰 "I played with him in Triple-A, and I've seen him take batting practice," Kemp said of Kuo. "Even in a game he went straight-center so it didn't really surprise me too much." Kemp说在3A就看过小小郭偷练了 James Loney was aware of Kuo's power as well, saying Tuesday's home run reminded him of a grand slam that Kuo hit in the minors last season. Loney gave Kuo one of his bats, and Kuo used it during batting practice but not in the game. Loney想到小小郭上季也在小联盟轰过，他还有送小小郭1只球棒，小小郭没在比赛时用过 "It's a little too heavy for me," Kuo said. 他说太重了(Loney说….我天生神力阿) The Dodgers were trailing, 1-0, when Betemit hit an 0-1 pitch from Maine into the bleachers in left-center field. Kemp hit Maine's next pitch around the left-field foul pole and into the loge-level seats. Kuo finished it off with a first-pitch, 412-foot drive that landed in the right-field pavilion. He also scored some style points in the way he flipped the bat away after making contact. 飞阿飞阿，就三颗球飞出了全垒打墙 "We know how good of a team they are, and we know how good of a pitcher Maine is," said Kemp, whose home run was measured at 447 feet. "He gave us some good pitches to hit, and we took advantage of it." 梅子队很棒，Maine也很棒，我们还是打出去了 The three home runs were the most the Dodgers have hit consecutively since they hit four in a row last Sept. 18 against the Padres. The last time the Dodgers hit consecutive home runs in a game this season was on April 29 when Jeff Kent and Luis Gonzalez went back-to-back in San Diego. 3连轰离上次4连轰差了半年，上次有连轰是4/29的事了 Kuo became the first Taiwanese player in major-league history to hit a home run. He and New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang are the first Taiwanese pitchers to earn victories on the same day. Wang was the winning pitcher against the Diamondbacks. 小小郭是第一个台湾在大联盟打出全垒打的选手，他和小王今天都是台湾之光 Kuo's first victory as a starter came last season against the Mets. His winning formula in Tuesday's victory came from pitching out of the stretch throughout the game and following the signs put down by catcher Russell Martin. 小小郭的第一胜是梅子队贡献的，今天又来进补 The Mets failed to get a runner past second base after scoring in the second inning. 梅子队只拿下1分 "Me and (pitching coach Rick) Honeycutt talked it over and he said to do what I am more comfortable with," Kuo said of pitching from the stretch. "I pitched a little better (Tuesday) because Russell called the pitches. I tried to follow him." 小小郭说他今天因为Martin 所以 投的比较好 Martin was quick to shovel some of the credit back to Kuo. Martin马上回拍马屁 "He took advantage of the inside part of the plate and that allowed him to get some swings and misses on his offspeed pitches," Martin said. "He kind of has like a sneaky fastball. He hides the ball really well. When he has that plus-velocity going, hitters have a hard time laying off that heater that's a little bit off the belt." Martin说小小郭今天直球很棒 --

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