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PITTSBURGH -- A sharp Hyun-Jin Ryu and some clutch hitting enabled the Los Angeles Dodgers to overcome the absence of two top sluggers. Ryu pitched seven strong innings, Adrian Gonzalez reached base five times and Los Angeles beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Monday night. Ryu (11-5) joined Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw in making the Dodgers the first team in the majors with three 11-game winners. The left-hander allowed two runs and five hits with a walk and five strikeouts. "He had a good fastball, a good curveball and he threw his fastball to both sides of the plate," Los Angeles manager Don Mattingly said. "I thought he pitched really well and kept them off balance the whole time." Justin Turner had two RBIs and scored twice for the Dodgers, who snapped Pittsburghs six-game home winning streak. Pirates starter Edinson Volquez (8-7) had won four straight starts, tying his career high. Los Angeles played without right fielder Yasiel Puig (left hand) and shortstop Hanley Ramirez (left wrist) after both were injured when they were hit by pitches last weekend in St. Louis. Puig and Ramirez had X-rays in Pittsburgh that came back negative Monday. To compensate for their absence, Mattingly started Matt Kemp in right field -- his first appearance there since 2009 -- and Turner at shortstop. Turners start was his first since June 28, the day he sustained a strained left hamstring that put him on the disabled list for three weeks. Dee Gordon and Juan Uribe also had two hits apiece for Los Angeles, is two percentage points behind first-place San Francisco in the NL West. Brian Wilson and J.P. Howell combined to pitch a scoreless eighth before Kenley Jansen earned his 29th save in 32 opportunities. Andrew McCutchen had two hits and a run for the Pirates, who were coming off a home sweep of the Colorado Rockies. Turner scored on Kemps double in the third for the games first run. The following inning, Turners sharp liner wasnt handled by Pirates third baseman Josh Harrison and turned into a two-run double. Gonzalez followed with an RBI single to make it 5-0. That was plenty for Ryu, who retired 18 of the 20 batters he faced outside of Pittsburghs two-run fourth inning. "As a team we did a good job of putting good at-bats together when there were runners in scoring position," Gonzalez said. "We got those five runs in those two innings -- and Ryu on the mound made it enough, for sure." Volquez won five of his previous six starts and had a 0.90 ERA over 30 innings during his four-start winning streak. But he allowed 10 hits and three walks as the Pirates fell short of their first seven-game home winning streak in five years. "Everything was off today," said Volquez, who partially blamed the 11-day layoff between starts. "I wasnt executing my breaking balls. "Im just battling all the time. Fighting myself to find a rhythm, to execute pitches and stay in the game." Pittsburgh (52-47) also missed an opportunity to move seven games over .500 for the first time this season. "We battled and stayed in the game the best we could," manager Clint Hurdle said. "We just couldnt add on after the fourth." NOTES: Los Angeles catcher A.J. Ellis was hit in the head with a 78 mph pitch from Volquez in the second inning. The ball bounced off his helmet, and Ellis immediately ran to first and stayed in the game after being briefly examined by a trainer. ... The Dodgers plan to activate RHP Josh Beckett from the disabled list in time to start Tuesday at PNC Park. Beckett has been on the DL since July 8 because of a left hip impingement. RHP Vance Worley will start for the Pirates. ... Pittsburgh RHP Gerrit Cole, on the disabled list since July 9 because of lat soreness, will throw 50-60 pitches in a simulated game Wednesday. 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He fought off a challenge from Columbus rookie Alexander Wennberg and then lunged while pushing the puck past McElhenny for the short-handed goal.Its a momentum swing, for sure, Carolina coach Bill Peters said of Faulks goal. It ends up being the game-winner. A huge play. They were thinking of getting one to tie it and the next thing you know youre down two. Its a lot easier to play in this league with a lead — and a two-goal lead is special.Foligno scored his second with 5:23 left in the third to cut the lead to 3-2. The Blue Jackets threatened the rest of the way with Ward stopping Scott Hartnells point-blank shot and Ryan Johansen on a rush. But Staals late empty-netter put it out of reach.Curtis McElhenny, the backup to the injured Sergei Bobrovsky, stopped 33 shots for the injury-riddled Blue Jackets. They last lost six in a row (0-5-1) from Jan. 19-Feb. 1, 2013. They hadnt lost six straight in regulation since Nov. 10-20, 2006. Coach Gerard Gallant was fired three days later.Ward also made a strong save when he got a piece of Cam Atkinsons unobstructed one-timer from the slot in the waning moments of the second period. He also stopped Matt Calvert — just back in the lineup from missiing four games with a lower-body injury — on a rush early in the third.ddddddddddddhe Hurricanes top-line centre, Staal, said the team is enjoying turning things around.We want to keep the feeling going, obviously, he said. Weve got everyone in the lineup whos supposed to be there and were feeling more comfortable in what were doing. Weve just got to keep it going. Its a lot funner being on the winning side than where we were before.Columbus is not having much fun.(We were) out battled and outskated for most of the game, coach Todd Richards said. It looked to me like they wanted it more than we did.The Blue Jackets are without four top forwards — Nathan Horton (back), Brandon Dubinsky (abdominal surgery), Artem Anisimov (concussion) and Mark Letestu (groin) — along with Bobrovsky and their best offensive defenceman James Wisniewski, the latter two out with broken fingers. One of the teams top defenceman, Ryan Murray, is out with a recurrence of knee problems. And rookie defenceman Cody Goloubef is also sidelined for at least a month with a knee injury.Were on a six-game losing skid and theres no reason for it, Foligno said. How do you win? Usually when you get out of a losing skid its because youre cracking the net and youre getting ugly goals. Youre doing whats necessary to score goals. Were not doing that. Were trying to make an extra play, trying to be too cute.Notes: Earlier in the day, the Blue Jackets activated LW Matt Calvert and assigned C Sean Collins to AHL Springfield. ... Carolina RW Alexander Semin, a healthy scratch in the last two games (both wins), returned to the lineup and was on the first line alongside Staal and Jiri Tlusty. ... D Frederic St. De