Juan Pierre gets plunked to lift Dodgers

Andre Ethier hit a game-tying home run in the eighth, and Juan Pierre got hit with the bases loaded in the 11th to force in the winning run as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Sunday.

Guzman (0-1), working his third inning of relief, opened the 11th with walks to Ramon Martinez and Wilson Betemit. Martinez advanced to third on a delayed steal before Carlos Marmol replaced Guzman with a 1-0 count on Rafael Furcal. Marmol walked Furcal intentionally to set up a force everywhere, but his 2-2 pitch hit Pierre in the foot.

Chad Billingsley (3-0) pitched a perfect 11th inning for the win after two hitless innings by Jonathan Broxton.

Derrek Lee, who came in with an NL-best .362 average and a .467 percentage with runners in scoring position, snapped a scoreless tie in the eighth against reliever Rudy Seanez with an RBI single. But the Dodgers tied it up in the bottom half.

Chicago right-hander Michael Wuertz was about to start his second inning of relief when Ethier came up to bat for Andy LaRoche. Cubs manager Lou Piniella countered with lefty Scott Eyre _ who had allowed just one earned run over 13 2-3 innings in his previous 18 career appearances against Los Angeles and hadn't pitched since May 20 because of a 7.53 ERA. Ethier drove Eyre's 0-2 pitch into the right field pavilion for his first career pinch-hit homer.

In a spirited duel of left-handers, Randy Wolf and Chicago's Rich Hill each pitched six scoreless innings of three 3-hit ball before they were removed for pinch-hitters. Wolf escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth, retiring Ryan Theriot on a groundout.

The Dodgers' defense sparkled in the seventh. Catcher Russell Martin made the most acrobatic play of the afternoon, hanging onto a popup by Murton after somersaulting over a 3-foot high chicken-wire fence near owner Dodger owner Frank McCourt's private box. Second baseman Jeff Kent made a diving grab of pinch-hitter Daryle Ward's line drive toward the middle two batters later, stranding Pagan at third.

The Cubs also played some slick defense in the second inning. Mark DeRosa, starting at third base for the second time this season, made a fully-extended diving stop of Kent's hot smash in the hole and threw him out. Lee, a two-time Gold Glove first baseman, made a diving grab of Luis Gonzalez's line drive and tagged the bag while on his stomach to double up Olmedo Saenz.

Notes:@ The first four innings were played in a crisp 51 minutes. Wolf threw 57 pitches and Hill 41 during that stretch. ... Hill had allowed 14 earned runs in 17 innings over his previous three starts and surrendered four home runs last Tuesday at San Diego. ... Dodgers' baserunners have been caught stealing an NL-high 17 times in 57 attempts, including Furcal in the first inning after he extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a single and was picked off by Hill. ... Martin, batting a league-leading .361 in night games, is only 8-for-47 in the daytime. He was 0-for-4 Sunday. ... Wolf has allowed four earned runs in 26 innings over his last four starts.