The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Bronson Arroyo outpitched Hiroki Kuroda for the second time in 11 days and singled home the go-ahead run for the Cincinnati Reds, who got homers from Joey Votto and Chris Heisey in a 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.

Arroyo (5-6) allowed four runs and seven hits over 7 2-3 innings with no walks in a rematch of his June 3 duel with Kuroda, which Cincinnati won 2-1.

The Reds’ right-hander is 4-0 with a 2.60 ERA in his last four starts against the Dodgers, after going 1-4 with a 4.67 ERA in his other nine starts against them.

The Dodgers narrowed the gap to 6-4 in the eighth with a run-scoring triple by Dee Gordon, his first RBI in the majors, and a sacrifice fly by Aaron Miles. But Bill Bray struck out Andre Ethier to end the inning and Francisco Cordero fanned the last three batters after a leadoff walk to NL home run leader Matt Kemp.

It was Cordero’s 13th save in 15 chances this season and the 303rd of his career to tie Doug Jones for 20th place.

Kuroda (5-8) was charged with four runs — two earned — and seven hits over 6 1-3 innings with six strikeouts and no walks. The 36-year-old right-hander is 0-5 with a 4.39 ERA in his last five starts, but his teammates have totaled just nine runs during that stretch.

The Reds capitalized on a pair of errors by the Dodgers’ infield in the seventh to break open a 2-2 game.

Gordon, a 23-year-old shortstop making his Dodger Stadium debut after getting called up from Triple-A during the team’s 5-5 road trip, botched a routine grounder by Ryan Hanigan leading off the inning.

Paul Janish followed with an apparent double-play grounder to Gordon, but the relay to first by Miles sailed into the photo well — allowing Janish to take an extra base on the error. Arroyo drove him in with his second single of the game, chasing Kuroda, and Votto hit a three-run homer off Matt Guerrier after a two-out walk to Brandon Phillips.

Votto, the reigning NL MVP, is vying for his first batting title with a .333 average. The home run was his ninth of the season and first since his three-run shot against Clayton Kershaw on June 4 at Cincinnati.

Gordon’s first error in the big leagues compounded an egregious mistake he made in the second inning — when he failed to touch second base on a potential double-play grounder by Miguel Cairo after taking the short flip from Miles. That cost the Dodgers an out — and a run, as Janish drove in Heisey with a two-out single.

James Loney drove in the game’s first run with a first-inning single after Arroyo gave up a two-out single by Ethier and hit Kemp with a pitch.

Kemp scored the Dodgers’ second run on a double-play grounder by Juan Uribe in the third. But Heisey tied it 2-all in the sixth with a two-out solo homer on the first pitch, causing an exasperated Kuroda to put both hands on his head before the ball landed in the left-field pavilion.

Gordon, the Dodgers’ minor league player of the year in 2009 and the son of former major league closer Tom Gordon, made back-to-back defensive gems in the third, and another in the sixth. After robbing Phillips of a hit toward the middle of the diamond, he charged another ball that ricocheted off Kuroda and barehanded it before throwing out Votto. Four innings later, he made a diving grab of Votto’s line drive toward second.

NOTES: Reds 3B Scott Rolen, who fouled a ball off his left foot in the second inning Sunday and finished the game, was not in the lineup for the opener of the three-game series. … In a game featuring two of the NL’s top three home run hitters, Kemp and Jay Bruce, neither went deep. Kemp’s league-leading 20 homers are seven shy of the Dodgers’ franchise record at the All-Star break, which Gary Sheffield set in 2000. The team has 24 games left before the Midsummer Classic. … The two homers ended a five-game drought by the Reds, their longest since a five-game stretch in June 2006. … Miles hasn’t hit a home run in 507 at-bats since Sept. 16, 2008 — against Arroyo while playing for St. Louis at Cincinnati. … Uribe and Reds SS Edgar Renteria were teammates last season and helped San Francisco win the World Series. Renteria was the Series MVP, combining with Uribe for nine RBIs against Texas. … The Reds had won only two of their previous 15 games at Dodger Stadium since the start of the 2006 season. Both came last year.