ESPN.com writer and Dodger Thoughts bonne amie Molly Knight showed Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain who's boss.

The impressive, season-opening pitching duel between Clayton Kershaw and Tim Lincecum ended after seven innings.Hong-Chih Kuo relieved Kershaw to open the eighth.Kershaw's final line: Seven innings, no runs, four hits, one walk and nine strike outs.He threw 96 pitches, 65 for strikes.With Lincecum due to lead off the eighth, the Giants sent up Mark DeRosa to pinch hit.Lincecum's final line: seven innings, one unearned run, five hits, three walks (one intentional) and five strikeouts.He threw 103 pitches, 58 for strikes.Kuo immediately got into trouble by walking DeRosa.Nate Schierholtz pinch ran.Kuo got Andres Torres on a fly to right for the first out after a 12-pitch at-bat.Kuo then struck out Freddy Sanchez and induced Aubrey Huff to fly out to center.Santiago Castilla took over for Linecum to start the bottom of the eighth.Matt Kemp led off with his third walk of the game -- that's a career high -- and stole second on Castilla's first pitch to James Loney.That Davey Lopes base-running instruction makes an immediate impact!
Loney then ended his frustrating night by pulling a double off the right-field fence to score Kemp.Castilla followed by striking out Juan Uribe and getting Rod Barajas and Jamey Carroll out on flies to center..

Dodgers make it a winning opener for Don Mattingly, down Giants 2-1 as Clayton Kershaw shines

If the Dodgers are going to surprise their Doubters this year, it figures it has to be with pitching.No one is expecting them juggernaut to be an offensive.For openers, that's pretty much the way it went down.The Dodgers got a masterful start by opening night Clayton Kershaw, one shut-out inning by Hong-Chih Kuo, and one by Jonathan Broxton shaky ninth to edge the Giants, 2-1, in their 2011 season opener Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.Kershaw threw seven shutout innings, struck out out nine and gave up only four hits and one walk.He needed to be that good, because he was nearly matched by two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.Lincecum allowed only one unearned run in his seven innings.The Dodgers scored their first run on a pair of San Francisco errors in the sixth, and then added one more on a James Loney double off reliever Santiago Casilla in the eighth.Broxton came on in the ninth, and with one out, Pat Burrrell made plenty of Dodger fans nervous, driving a solo home run to left.Broxton then retired Miguel Tejada on a tapper and rookie Brandon Belt on a soft liner to Juan Uribe at third base to end the game.The victory made a winner out of Don Mattingly is a debut as manager..