It proved to be all the offense the Dodgers needed, as Hiroki Kuroda was locked in, hurling shutout ball into the sixth; the first 11 outs he recorded were all ground ball outs before he struck out Rich Harden to end the fourth.
On January 26, 2012 he was designated for assignment to make room for Hiroki Kuroda.
Hiroki Narimiya | Kazuya Kuroda | Hiroki Matsukata | Yōsuke Kuroda | Kuroda Yoshitaka | Kuroda Puppet Troupe | Kuroda Kiyotaka | Hiroki Suzuki | Hiroki Kuroda | Hiroki Kokubo | Kuroda Nagamasa | Kuroda | Hiroki Tanaka | Hiroki Takahashi | Hiroki Morinoue | Hiroki Kikuta | Hiroki Azuma | Haruhiko Kuroda |