Dodgers P Hiroki Kuroda allowed a leadoff double in the eighth inning to break up his perfect game in leading the Dodgers to a 3-0 victory over the BRaves and back into a tie for first place in the NL West.

He was trying to join Sandy Koufax as the only Dodger to throw a perfect game. He becomes the 36th Dodger to throw a one-hitter and got it thanks to a pair of amazing defensive plays.

Blake DeWitt charged a ball in the seventh when Gregor Blanco tried to break up the perfect game with a bunt. DeWitt bare-handed it and threw Blanco out at first. In the ninth, Angel Berroa made an amazing spinning throw on the outfield grass deep in the hole to nail Greg Norton at first.

"He was as close to perfect as you could be," said Dodgers manager Joe Torre, who has been a part of two perfect games. "That's the only way to describe it. You couldn't get much closer to perfect than that.

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