Dodgers 10, Giants 7

It wasn’t pretty — in fact, it was so no pretty that Joe Torre had a brief team meeting after the game to point out the need to clean up the sloppy play — but it was effective. Dodgers won their fourth game in a row, their second-longest winning streak of the season. This game was a textbook example of the hitting approach Torre has been trying to instill. The Dodgers couldn’t do much against Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez except make him work. They worked him over for 110 pitches over five innings, resulting in Bruce Bochy going to his bullpen in the sixth, and the Dodgers then unloaded on rookie reliever Oriris Matos for five runs in the decisive sixth inning, a rally that began when left fielder Fred Lewis dropped Nomar’s fly ball. Dodgers go to 42-44. Snakes play tonight. … Andruw Jones had the same game Jason Repko had the other night, going 0 for 5 with four strikeouts, suggesting nothing has changed since before he had his surgery — he is now batting .159 and averaging a strikeout every 3.2 plate appearances. This is what he had to say about it: “I felt good at the plate. They just made tough pitches on me. Tip your hat to them. There is nothing you can do. I’ll just come out tomorrow and go at it again. (Sanchez) pitched really good, and this was the first time … I have ever faced him.”