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Without a glove or a bat in his hands, Jeff Kent is about as miserable at a baseball game as a squirming, screaming toddler.

By his own admission Kent is not a baseball fan, so having to sit out for three weeks with a strained oblique muscle and watch games from the dugout amounted to a mild form of torture.

Kent's exile ended Monday night, to the chagrin of the Colorado Rockies. Adding an established cleanup hitter to a team as hot as the Dodgers doesn't seem fair, and Kent helped keep the Dodgers rolling as he homered and drove in three runs in a 7-2 victory over the Rockies in front of 44,593 at Dodger Stadium.

Starting pitcher Brad Penny continued his season-long dominance of Colorado and the Dodgers matched their longest winning streak — 10 games — since May 2003. They haven't won 11 in a row since May 17-29, 1993.

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