LOS ANGELES -- It took Kazuhisa Ishii 59 major league starts to finish one.
The Dodgers' left-hander pitched a four-hitter, Milton Bradley homered twice and Los Angeles beat the San Francisco Giants 9-0 on Sunday.
Ishii's first complete game since he came over from Japan's Yakult Swallows in 2002 also was his first big league shutout.
"I'm just glad I can give the other pitchers some rest," Ishii said through a translator. "I just tried to concentrate, and I will try to be consistent from now on."
Alex Cora hit a three-run homer, and Cesar Izturis added a solo shot. The Dodgers' first three homers came against Brian Cooper, an emergency replacement for scheduled starter Dustin Hermanson, who couldn't go because of muscle spasms in his back.
Los Angeles manager Jim Tracy was pleased to see Ishii, who threw 128 pitches, go the distance.
"We know how effective he can be when he's pitching ahead in the count and throwing his fastball where he needs to," Tracy said. "If he's throwing strikes with his fastball, he's difficult to deal with."
Catcher David Ross said Ishii (3-1) was determined to get his first pitch to every batter in the strike zone.
"He was very aggressive about throwing strike one and getting ahead of the hitters," Ross said.
Ishii, who struck out four and walked three, appreciated Ross' effort behind the plate, saying, "Ross never encouraged me more than he did today."
The win was the Dodgers' eighth in 11 games, including five of six meetings with the rival Giants. San Francisco has lost nine of 11 overall.
Bradley hit a pair of solo shots for the first multihomer game of his career. He has four homers this year.
Barry Bonds popped up to third and singled to right in his two times up. He left in the fifth inning with San Francisco trailing 7-0.
Cora homered in the second inning, and Izturis in the third. Bradley followed Izturis' homer with one of his own to make it 5-0.
Bradley's second homer was off Kevin Correia in the sixth.
Cooper (0-2) gave up six runs and five hits in three innings. He found out some 2½ hours before the game that he was starting.
Hermanson, scheduled to have an MRI on his back Monday in San Francisco, said he first felt the pain Saturday.
"I've never had a muscle spasm like this in my lower back. When you have trouble putting on and taking off your socks, it's going to be kind of hard to get major league hitters out," he said.
"It's pretty disappointing. I feel like I worked as hard as I can to get prepared for every start, and then something like this happens."
The homers by Cora and Izturis marked the first time the Dodgers' two light-hitting middle infielders connected in the same game.
Cora's homer was his first of the year and only the 18th of his career, spanning 1,605 major league at-bats. Izturis' shot, also his first of the season, was just the fifth of his career and came in his 1,196th at-bat.
The three-game series set a Dodger Stadium record for attendance. The crowd of 54,235 for the final game ran the total for the three games to 163,653.
Notes
- Dave Roberts singled three times for the Dodgers and extended his string of steals to 13 this season without being thrown out.
- The Dodgers traded RHP Rick White to Cleveland for OF Trey Dyson, then assigned Dyson to Class-A Vero Beach.
- Izturis' homer extended his career-high hitting streak to 13 games.
- Bonds has nine homers this season and 667 in his career. His next one will give him and his late father, Bobby, an even 1,000.
- The previous attendance record for a three-game series at Dodger Stadium was 163,376 from May 21-23, 1999, against St. Louis.
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