LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Ricky Gutierrez homered and drove in four runs, and Ruben Quevedo scattered seven hits for his first major league victory as the Chicago Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 Monday night.

Quevedo (1-3) struck out eight and walked two in his sixth career start, and spoiled rookie Matt Herges' first career start. The complete-game victory was the seventh by a Cubs pitcher this season.

Sammy Sosa hit his 35th home run in the ninth to tie Gary Sheffield for the major league lead.

Quevedo, recalled from Triple-A Iowa on July 28 after Ismael Valdes was traded to the Dodgers, is in his fourth stint with the Cubs this season. He lost 5-2 against Atlanta in his first start on May 30 and followed that with no-decisions in each of his next four. Quevado's ERA as a starter is 3.34.

Herges (8-1) threw 79 pitches in six innings, allowed three runs and five hits before he was removed for a pinch-hitter.

Among the 31,697 in attendance for the right-hander's first big-league start was his older brother, Toby, who underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in January for a brain tumor.

After 61 major league relief appearances _ including an 8-0 record this season _ Herges, 30, got the starting assignment when manager Davey Johnson demoted the ineffective Carlos Perez to the bullpen. Oddly enough, Perez pitched 5 2-3 scoreless innings Sunday night against Milwaukee in his first relief outing since June 26.

Tom Goodwin led off the Dodgers' first with a single and scored on Mark Grudzielanek's double.

The Cubs took a 3-1 lead in the third on singles by Jeff Reed and Eric Young, Gutierrez's triple and Mark Grace's sacrifice fly.

Los Angeles closed to 3-2 when Shawn Green led off the fourth with his 20th homer.

But the Cubs increased their margin in the seventh when Antonio Osuna walked Young and surrendered Gutierrez's eighth homer.

The four RBIs gave Gutierrez 46 for the season, equaling his career best in 1998, and also matched the RBIs total he had in his previous 64 career at-bats at Dodger Stadium.

Adrian Beltre added an RBI single in the ninth to make it 7-3.

Young, traded by the Dodgers to the Cubs with Valdes last December for Terry Adams and two minor leaguers, was 3-for-4 and scored twice. He drove in Reed from second with a single after Quevedo bunted into a 5-6-4 double play.

Notes: Sheffield, who sat out Sunday night's game because of a sprained right thumb, returned to the lineup and was 0-for-4. The Dodgers are 0-5 when Sheffield isn't in the starting lineup. ... Sosa's next two-homer game will tie Ernie Banks' club record of 42. ... Young, who hit his 32nd double in the first, needs one more to match the career high set in 1997. ... Dodgers OF F.P. Santangelo served the last game of his five-game suspension, which he received in the aftermath of the Dodgers' May 16 brawl with fans at Wrigley Field.