<p>LOS ANGELES — Max Muncy hit a three-run homer during the Dodgers’ eight-run second inning, and Clayton Kershaw racked up a season-high 11 strikeouts in Los Angeles’ 9-6 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday night.</p>
<p>Mookie Betts and Austin Barnes had RBI doubles for the defending World Series champions, who appear to be coming out of their three-week tailspin. Los Angeles has won three straight and four of five after jumping to an early 8-0 lead and hanging on after the Marlins scored five runs on Kershaw.</p>
<p>Los Angeles lost 15 of 20 after its 13-2 start to the season, but the Dodgers have opened a nine-game homestand with their first three-game win streak in four weeks. All nine starters got a hit in the series opener against Miami.</p>
<p>Kershaw (6-3) won for the sixth time in eight starts despite yielding a season high-tying five earned runs over six innings. Kershaw also contributed an RBI single and scored during the Dodgers’ impressive second inning, which included six consecutive hits.</p>
<p>Adam Duvall hit a three-run homer and Garrett Cooper drove in two runs for the Marlins, who have lost three straight and five of seven.</p>
<p>Miami’s Sandy Alcantara (1-3) didn’t get out of the second inning in the shortest start of his five-year major league career, yielding eight runs on seven hits and two walks while getting just four outs.</p>
<p>Alcantara had lasted at least five innings in each of his first eight starts this season, but he has allowed 14 runs in only 6 1/3 innings in his two career starts at Dodger Stadium.</p>
<p>After Chris Taylor drew a leadoff walk in the second, the next six Dodgers delivered hits — including an RBI single by AJ Pollock, who then left the game after straining his left hamstring while running to third on Barnes’ double to the wall.</p>
<p>Muncy’s 424-foot homer was the fifth in eight games for the veteran slugger during a scorching stretch. He reached base for the 18th time in 36 plate appearances with a seventh-inning single.</p>
<p>Miami halved the Dodgers’ 8-0 lead in the third with Cooper’s RBI single followed by a 417-foot shot from Duvall.</p>
<p>Miami loaded the bases with a two-out rally in the eighth and trimmed LA’s lead to 9-6 when Sandy Leon was grazed by a pitch, but Victor González struck out Jon Berti to end it.</p>
<p>Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in nine opportunities.</p>
<p>TRAINER’S ROOM</p>
<p>Marlins: RHP Elieser Hernández (biceps) will start a rehab assignment next week. He hasn’t pitched for Miami since April 3. … SS Jazz Chisholm (hamstring) homered in a minor league game. He should be back this weekend or shortly afterward.</p>
<p>Dodgers: Pollock was making his first start in a week after straining his hamstring in Anaheim. … LHP David Price (hamstring) threw two simulated innings. He is close to returning. … OF Cody Bellinger (hairline leg fracture) is running at 80% in Arizona, and he could go on a minor league assignment next week. … INF/OF Zach McKinstry (oblique) will go to Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday or Monday.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Trevor Bauer (3-2, 2.50 ERA) takes the mound against Miami, which hadn’t announced its starter. Bauer is 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 13 innings at Dodger Stadium this season.</p>
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