DODGERS DON'T LET BONDS BEAT 'EM BRADLEY'S BASE HIT IN 12TH WRAPS IT UP DODGERS 5, SAN FRANCISCO 4.

Byline: Rich Hammond  Staff Writer

The San Francisco Giants entered Friday's game with losses in 10 of their first 16 games, including a three-game sweep by the Dodgers last weekend.

The Dodgers figure it won't last long.

``I think it's safe to say that,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``It's a talented group of players they have over there, but you take nothing for granted in this game, nothing.''

The Giants couldn't even take a three-run lead for granted Friday, as the Dodgers rallied in the middle innings to tie it and eventually won it when Milton Bradley singled home Cesar Izturis from second in the 12th inning to give the Dodgers a 5-4 victory in front of 54,598 at Dodger Stadium.

Izturis led off the 12th with a double to left-center against Matt Herges (0-2). Bradley followed with a bouncing single into left, his only hit in five at-bats. Izturis slid home just ahead of Barry Bonds' throw.

``It was good execution by Bradley and recognition of the change of signs,'' Tracy said. ``We were bunting early (in the at-bat). I think the corners had to respect that and bring themselves up probably closer than they would have liked to be.

``Our intention early in the sequence was that we were bunting to move the runner to third. The ball wasn't hit that hard but because they had moved up they didn't have as much lateral movement as they would have liked.''

Darren Dreifort (1-0) pitched two hitless innings for the victory, which took four hours, five minutes.

Bonds, who hit four homers against the Dodgers in last weekend's series at SBC Park, didn't connect for one Friday - because they hardly let him. He was intentionally walked four times - one short of the major-league record. They even put him on with one out and no one on in the top of the 12th before Dreifort struck out the next two batters.

The 2-for-2 night lifted Bonds' major-league best average to .525.

Bonds did crush a single through the right side of the Dodgers' shifted infield to drive in the first run. That was just part of a terrible start to the game for Dodger pitcher Odalis Perez.

Perez dazzled the Giants seven days prior in eight shutout innings, but they must have learned something as they pounded him for four runs in the first three innings.

The Giants had scored more than five runs in just one of their previous nine games, and even though they didn't get an extra-base hit off Perez in his six innings, they put together enough timely singles to put a dent in what thus far had been a solid month for Perez.

Perez settled down after the third and pitched well enough to allow the Dodgers to rally. He allowed the four earned runs on seven singles, walked three and struck out three. Perez threw 115 pitches.

The Dodgers had a balanced offense. Encarnacion tripled home a run in the fourth, and Green hit a two-run home run in the fifth to tie the game 4-4 against San Francisco starter Brett Tomko, who allowed four runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Izturis, who missed Thursday's game with a sore throat, also singled in the third inning to extend his hitting streak to 11 games, tying a personal best.

But by that time, the Dodgers already trailed 4-1. The first six San Francisco batters reached base, but two of them were retired on fielder's choice grounders and the Giants scored twice.

Bonds' sharp single went between second baseman Alex Cora and Izturis, who was shifted to the right side of second base, and scored Edgardo Alfonzo from second.

Pedro Feliz followed with a bouncer to the mound, and Perez opted to go to second to start a double play, but got only one out, and a run scored.

Cora's bloop single scored Paul Lo Duca in the second, but the Giants pushed their lead to 4-1 on RBI singles from Feliz and A.J. Pierzynski.

The Dodgers closed to 4-2 on consecutive triples by Lo Duca and Encarnacion, the first pair of Dodgers to accomplish that feat in a game since Bill Russell and Ken Landreaux on May 19, 1985.

Green tied the game in the fifth off Tomko when his low-flying drive just cleared the center-field wall.

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Photo:

(color) Dodgers second baseman Alex Cora is upended by the Giants' Pedro Feliz in the third inning while attempting a double-play.

David Sprague/Staff Photographer

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(1) DODGERS vs. SAN FRANCISCO

- Rich Hammond

(2) GAME RECAP