"Vin Scully had to be smiling somewhere.

The day after he announced his return for 2012, Scully had the day off because the game was a Fox broadcast. Perhaps he foresaw that Saturday's game would be a four-hour, 39-minute affair in 97-degree heat and should just sit it out.

Then again, Dodgers fans would have loved to hear him call Matt Kemp's game-winning home run in the 11 th inning that gave the Dodgers an improbable 7-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies.

The Dodgers have won five in a row, only their second such streak this season, and finally showed signs of their offensive capability in erasing a 4-0 deficit and getting a tying home run from James Loney in the ninth.

"We fought back hard," said Kemp, who has 31 home runs and 100 RBIs. "We've been coming back and we keep fighting. We're winning these close games, and that's what we haven't been doing in the past.

"That's the old Dodgers I remember.""