WASHINGTON — Rafael Furcal drove in four runs, Hiroki Kuroda allowed four hits over six innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers had two big innings in a 14-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.
The Dodgers’ sixth win in seven games lowered their magic number for clinching a postseason berth to three. Los Angeles would win its second straight NL West title for the first time since 1977-78 with any combination of Dodgers wins and Colorado losses totaling seven.
Kuroda (8-6) won his third straight start, benefiting from two innings in which the Dodgers sent 11 men to the plate. He allowed no earned runs.
Furcal and James Loney drove in two runs each in a seven-run fourth, erasing a 2-1 deficit. Casey Blake hit a two-run homer, and Furcal added two more RBIs in a six-run seventh.
Adam Dunn homered for Washington, which has lost three in a row.
An error by shortstop Furcal helped the Nationals take a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third inning. Ryan Zimmerman reached when Furcal booted his two-out grounder and Dunn followed with his 38th homer, a shot into the right-field bullpen.
The Dodgers exploited two errors in a seven-run fourth, knocking Nationals starter Livan Hernandez from the game.
