Backup C Gary Bennett drives in 4, Dodgers erupt for 6 runs in 7th to beat Brewers 7-2

After Jones and Kent hit solo shots, Bennett capped the burst with a three-run homer.

Bennett, a backup catcher who hit an RBI double in the ninth, wasn't even supposed to play, but got the start when third baseman Blake DeWitt's lower back started hurting just before the game.

With DeWitt scratched, regular catcher Russell Martin played third base for the fifth time in his career.

Billingsley (3-5) didn't allow a hit until Brewers starter Ben Sheets, a career .078 hitter, singled with two outs in the fifth.

Billingsley gave up three hits and struck out five. The 23-year-old righty was pulled with a 6-0 lead after giving up Jason Kendall's leadoff triple in the eighth and walking his fourth batter.

Reliever Jonathan Broxton got J.J. Hardy to ground into a double play that scored Kendall. Ryan Braun then homered, having agreed to an eight-year, $45 million contract before the game to stay in Milwaukee.

Still, the Dodgers showed most of the power. After coming in tied for last in the NL with 26 homers, Los Angeles jumped on Sheets (4-1) with a surge in the seventh.

Jones, hitting .182, turned on a fastball high and out of the strike zone for a solo homer to leadoff the inning, his second homer and seventh RBI this season. After an out, Sheets hung a breaking ball and Kent made it 2-0.

Sheets then came unraveled. James Loney tripled and scored off Martin's single. Luis Maza's first career hit put runners at the corners with one out and set up Bennett's homer, the 22nd of his 13-year career.

Sheets was finished after Bennett's homer, allowing six runs off nine hits. He had five strikeouts in 6 1-3 innings to end the first 4-0 start of his career.

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