A Dodgers public relations official came into the Angels clubhouse Saturday afternoon looking for a game ball to give to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who wanted a memento from a 6-3 interleague victory that turned into an international event.

South Korean right-hander Chan Ho Park threw four innings, giving up two runs and three hits, before handing the ball to Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo, who threw four scoreless innings before giving way to Japanese closer Takashi Saito, who pitched the ninth.



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It is believed to be the first time in major league history that pitchers from three different Asian countries appeared in the same game for the same team.

"The chances are, it's going to happen again," Dodgers Manager Joe Torre said. "But it definitely wasn't by design."

What ever is with the Dodgers these days? Torre has juggled his lineup virtually every day in an effort to find some combination that clicks, and Park was the third different starter Torre has used in the fifth spot of the rotation.



（今天的真正先發，公園大叔朴贊浩）

Park, a long reliever who hadn't started since April 30, 2007, with the New York Mets, didn't get the win, but he gave the Dodgers a chance to win despite needing 82 pitches to get through four innings on a steamy, 98-degree afternoon.

After giving up a leadoff double to Garret Anderson in the second inning, Park struck out two of the next three batters to escape the jam.

He took a 4-0 lead into the fourth, thanks to Blake DeWitt's two-run homer in the second and run-scoring singles by Andre Ethier and Russell Martin in the third, hits that helped send Angels right-hander Ervin Santana (6-1) to his first loss.

The Angels capitalized on a Dodgers error to score twice in the fourth, as first baseman James Loney threw Casey Kotchman's potential double-play grounder into left field, but Park got Erick Aybar to ground to second with the bases loaded, ending the inning.

"He did a great job," Torre said of Park. "That one inning, he had to get too many outs. We gave them too many opportunities. I'm just glad we were able to hold it together."

Kuo, who had three starts in the fifth spot, relieved Park to start the fifth and gave up three hits, struck out four and walked none over the next four innings to gain the victory and improve to 3-1.

"That was huge," Torre said. "First off, you don't have to go down to that bullpen and keep guys warming up all the time. . . . When he throws strikes with the stuff he has, he's going to get a lot of people out."

The Dodgers added insurance runs in the seventh, when Juan Pierre raced home while Martin was caught in a rundown between first and second, and the eighth, when DeWitt, who'd missed the previous two games because of a sore back, doubled with two outs and scored on Luis Maza's single.

That enabled Saito to easily absorb pinch-hitter Juan Rivera's double and Aybar's RBI single in the ninth, as the Dodgers won for only the second time in 10 games at Angel Stadium since 2005.

"It feels good," said Pierre, who scored twice. "I know we got swept here last year. [Santana] is having a pretty good year, and the way we battled . . . we didn't necessarily beat them with the long ball, but we just scrapped our way to a victory."

Aybar's infield single in the ninth was the Angels' first hit in 10 at-bats with runners in scoring position Saturday. The Angels are now seven for 48 (.146) with runners in scoring position in their last five games and have lost seven of their last 10 games. 

"We got behind early and needed one hit to get back in the game, but we didn't get it," Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said. "Right now, we're in a bit of a lull. We're not driving the ball, and when we set the table, we're not getting the situational hitting.

"We need consistency. We need to get the first or second guy on base in each inning. We need to push the envelope. We need to right this thing offensively, and we will."

mike.digiovanna@latimes.com