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Final Score: Los Angeles 7 - San Diego 1

San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Japanese import Hiroki Kuroda sparkled in his major league debut, throwing seven innings and the Dodgers scored six times in the seventh for a 7-1 win over the San Diego Padres.

Kuroda (1-0), who signed a three-year contract with the Dodgers in December after a strong 11-year career with the Hiroshima Carp of the Japanese Central League, allowed three hits and a run, which came on a Brian Giles tying homer in the sixth. The 33-year-old right-hander didn't walk a batter and logged four strikeouts.

Russell Martin and Andre Ethier each drove in two runs for Los Angeles, which was coming off winning two of three at home against the Giants to start the season. Rafael Furcal had two hits and scored once for the Dodgers, who sent 10 men to the plate in the seventh.

The Dodgers have given up five runs over their first four games.

"For his first time pitching in the big leagues, he's looking pretty good," Furcal said of Kuroda. "The splitter, keeping the ball down, he knows how to pitch."

Joe Thatcher (0-1) walked the bases loaded with one out in the seventh and was charged with the loss in the opener of the three-game series.

Justin Germano threw the first six innings for the Padres and yielded three hits and one unearned run.

Blake DeWitt, Kuroda and Furcal walked in succession with one out in the seventh before Martin gave LA a 2-1 lead with a base hit to right. Glendon Rusch then came in from the bullpen to try and put out the fire, but James Loney hit a sacrifice fly to center.

The Dodgers proceeded to score four more runs with two outs. Jeff Kent walked and Ethier slapped an RBI single to right. Rusch's low pitch then squirted between the legs of catcher Michael Barrett, allowing pinch-runner Chin-Lung Hu to come home, and it became 7-1 when Andruw Jones singled up the middle.

Kuroda allowed a two-out single to Scott Hairston in the seventh, but then retired Khalil Greene on a fly ball. Chad Billingsley threw the final two innings for Los Angeles.

"He had good command of the fastball," Padres manager Bud Black said of Kuroda. "His secondary pitches had a great deal of action in the hitting area. He's a little deceptive."

The Dodgers scored in the fourth. Loney singled and Kent reached base on an error from third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff before Ethier came through with a sacrifice fly to left.

Giles homered to right with two outs in the sixth.