Greg Maddux is a man of few pitches and fewer words, and by the time he spoke to the media Sunday night, he already wore a baseball hat embroidered with a fishing company logo.

He might as well have hung a "Gone Fishin' " sign on his locker, which is exactly what he made the Giants do for eight innings Sunday.

Russell Martin still has the exuberance of a rookie, throwing his helmet into the air as he crossed home plate after hitting the game- winning home run in the bottom of the 10th inning.

The 23-year-old kid and the 40-year-old pro teamed up to deliver a meaningful 1-0 victory over the Giants at Dodger Stadium, completing a three-game sweep and keeping the Dodgers lead in the NL West at 1 1/2 games over San Diego. They bid Barry Bonds farewell in what was most likely his last game at Dodger Stadium, at least as a Giant. They mobbed Martin when he crossed the plate.

"I like Rusty," Maddux said. "He sets up the right way. He hits game-winning home runs. You like that as a pitcher."

Martin pulled the first pitch he saw from right-hander Vinnie Chulk (0-1), hitting a low line drive that cleared the left-field fence for the Dodgers, who won each of the three games by one run.

As for Martin, he said he hit two game-winning home runs last year with double-A Jacksonville. He had the same situation on a vastly different stage: a crowd of 55,699 and a national cable audience on ESPN.

"I thought about it before the at-bat," Martin said. "Those homers were in front of about 4,000 people. When I hit it, I thought, 'Please, please get out of here.' "

Martin's sixth home run made a winner of Takashi Saito (4-2), but more importantly, it meant that the Dodgers did not squander a pitching performance that was masterful even by the Cooperstown plaque gold standard of Maddux.

Maddux was so good that he may as well have been pitching to the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds instead of the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium. Instead of the Bonds-style pants wrapped around the shoes, these Giants may as well have been wearing wool uniforms and swinging 40-ounce bats.

He gave up a single to Randy Winn on the first pitch of the game. With one out, he gave up a single to Ray Durham to put runners at first and second for Bonds. On a 1-and-0 pitch, Bonds lined a shot above Maddux's head. The 15-time Gold Glove winner speared the ball and easily doubled off Durham at first to escape the inning.

"Just a great bar story," Maddux said. "It's been a privilege to face the best guy in the game for the past 20 years. There's not even a second greatest."

The next seven innings were perfect. Maddux retired all 21 batters he faced, requiring just 68 pitches -- including 50 strikes. He had a pitch-by-inning total Maddux probably wouldn't mind seeing on his scorecard if he played eight holes at Trump National: 7-7-9- 9-8-11-9-8.

"We had nobody on base for two hours," Giants manager Felipe Alou said. "It's classic Maddux, making us chase the pitches he wants us to. He's in a playoff chase now and he doesn't want to waste the opportunity."

The Dodgers had their opportunities to give Maddux an elusive run, but Giants starter Jason Schmidt refused to budge. Schmidt threw eight shutout innings, walking one and striking out nine. He scattered five hits and didn't blink when it mattered.

With runners at second and third and two outs in the third, Schmidt got Kenny Lofton to line out to left field, where Bonds, running hard on his 42-year-old legs, made an over-the-shoulder catch at the warning track.

Schmidt allowed two-out singles to Nomar Garciaparra and Jeff Kent in the sixth, but struck out Andre Ethier to end the inning.

With one out in the eighth, Rafael Furcal reached on a bunt and Lofton singled to put runners on first and second. But Schmidt struck out Garciaparra on a 92-mph fastball and Kent popped out in foul territory to end the inning.

Maddux was removed from the game in the eighth inning because his spot in the order led off the inning.

Martin, who hit the first game-winning home run in his major league career, seemed more awed by Maddux than he did by his own home run.

"That was 68 pitches?" Martin said. "I've never seen anything like that before in my life."