Cubs 7, Rockies 6
DENVER — The Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Ryan Theriot’s RBI single with two outs in the 10th inning Wednesday night, giving the franchise its 10,000th win.
Both teams blew ninth-inning leads with their closers, but it was the Rockies who ended up losing their fourth straight game when leading after seven innings.
Theriot’s single to right field scored pinch-runner Mike Fontenot from second base as the Cubs joined the Giants as the only franchises in major league history to reach 10,000 wins.
Carlos Marmol pitched a perfect the 10th for his second save in as many chances.
Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run homer off struggling Colorado closer Manny Corpas with one out in the ninth to put the Cubs ahead 6-5, but Ryan Spilborghs tripled home the tying run off Kerry Wood with two outs in the bottom half.
Wood (2-0) struck out Clint Barmes to strand the winning run at third, then picked up the win when the Cubs rallied off Kip Wells (1-1).
Mets 7, Nationals 2
WASHINGTON — Johan Santana hit two doubles and went seven solid innings for the Mets.
Santana (3-2) allowed seven hits, none after the fourth inning, struck out four and walked one. As a batter, he had the second two-hit game of his career.
The Mets improved to 4-0 against the Nationals this season.
New York broke open a 2-all tie in the sixth with only one hit — Carlos Beltran’s leadoff single — leaving the infield. After Beltran’s hit, Ray King relieved Tim Redding (3-2) and Ryan Church hit a weak grounder to third. Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman charged, but his running throw to first was wide. Beltran scored and Church wound up on third on Zimmerman’s throwing error.
Church scored two batters later on an infield single by Angel Pagan, who stole second and third on consecutive pitches and scored on a groundout by Brian Schneider.
Marlins 7, Braves 2
ATLANTA — Mike Jacobs hit a two-run homer, Hanley Ramirez added a solo shot and Dan Uggla had three hits including a two-run triple in the ninth for Florida.
The Marlins jumped on Atlanta starter Jeff Bennett (0-1) for three runs in the first inning on the leadoff home run by Ramirez and Jacobs followed with his two-run shot after a single by Josh Willingham as Florida won for the fourth time in five games.
The Marlins added two runs — one unearned — in the eighth.
Andrew Miller (1-2) pitched five innings and gave up nine hits, two walks and didn’t strike out any. But he was a big part of the Braves stranding 13 runners on base.
Pirates 7, Cardinals 4
PITTSBURGH — Jose Bautista and Doug Mientkiewicz had RBI singles during a three-run eighth inning, and Pittsburgh erased a four-run deficit to beat St. Louis.
Jason Bay added a two-run homer for Pittsburgh, which has won two in a row after snapping a six-game losing streak.
With the game tied at 4 in the eighth, Ryan Doumit singled to lead off the inning and scored on a two-out base hit by Bautista. After Brian Bixler doubled to left, moving Bautista up to third, Mientkiewicz singled down the left-field line off Anthony Reyes (1-1) to make it 7-4.
Damaso Marte (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings in relief to earn the win, and Matt Capps pitched a perfect ninth for his sixth save.
Astros 9, Reds 3
CINCINNATI — Kazuo Matsui sparked Houston’s seven-run rally with a two-run single, and the Astros coasted to their fourth straight victory.
Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 597th career homer off Chris Sampson (1-2), the only bright moment for the struggling Reds, who changed general managers before the game. Walt Jocketty took over for Wayne Krivsky, a show of impatience by team owner Bob Castellini.
The Astros knocked Bronson Arroyo (0-3) out of the game by sending 11 batters to the plate in the fourth inning for seven runs. Matsui, who has delivered three pivotal hits since he returned from the DL, had the first of six straight off Arroyo and reliever Mike Lincoln.
Brewers 5, Phillies 4
MILWAUKEE — Prince Fielder hit a pair of two-run homers, including a go-ahead shot in the eighth, as Milwaukee rallied past Philadelphia.
The homers snapped a relative power drought for Fielder, the defending National League home run champion who had 50 a year ago. Fielder went homerless in his first 14 games this season.
Both of Fielder’s homers came off Philadelphia ace Cole Hamels (2-3), who lost despite striking out a season-high 11. He gave up eight hits and five runs in seven innings.
Mitch Stetter (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth to get the win as the Brewers overcame Chase Utley’s major league-leading 10th homer.
Giants 3, Padres 2 (13)
SAN DIEGO — Trevor Hoffman blew another save and the Giants went on to beat the slumping Padres.
Rookie Emmanuel Burriss doubled off Glendon Rusch (0-2) leading off the 13th and scored the go-ahead run on Fred Lewis’ single. The Giants’ rally came four innings after Hoffman couldn’t hold the lead for what would have been Greg Maddux’s 350th career victory.
The Padres loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the inning against Brian Wilson before rookie Colt Morton hit a sacrifice fly for his first RBI. Khalil Greene flied out to center and Josh Bard walked to load the bases again. Tadahito Iguchi forced Bard to end the game.
Wilson got his sixth save in seven chances. Keiichi Yabu (2-1) pitched two-thirds of an inning for the win.
Dodgers 8, Diamondbacks 3
LOS ANGELES — James Loney had a pair of RBI singles, Chin-lung Hu singled home two more runs and the Dodgers handed Dan Haren his first loss of the season.
Derek Lowe (2-1) pitched just five innings for the victory, allowing a run and three hits with two strikeouts and a walk. The right-hander was removed for precautionary reasons because of tightness in his elbow, but is expected to make his next scheduled start.
Takashi Saito gave up an RBI single to Stephen Drew, but managed to get four outs for his second save.
Haren (3-1) was charged with six runs — five earned — and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings. It was the most runs the right-hander allowed in 42 regular-season starts since Sept. 18, 2006.
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