Rollins extends hitting streak to 37

It took eight innings for Jimmy Rollins to turn opening day into a hit -- for himself, if not for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Rollins extended his hitting streak to 37 games with an eighth-inning double Monday in a 13-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

He was 0-for-3 with a sacrifice fly before he lined a shot off Adam Wainwright down the right-field line.

"If he had thrown a ball and I couldn't get to it, I wouldn't have swung," Rollins said about swinging with a 3-0 count. "I wasn't going to give the at-bat away."

Joe DiMaggio accomplished his record 56-game streak in 1941. The major league marks for longest hitting streak in one season and longest hitting streak spanning two seasons are separate records.

Albert Pujols homered twice and Scott Rolen hit a grand slam for St. Louis. Every Cardinals starter, including pitcher Chris Carpenter, had a hit by the time they finished an eight-run fourth.

"There's no way to explain it, coming here swinging the bats like that," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "There were a lot of hits in that ballgame, but in the end, we had a couple of big damaging ones."

In other NL games, it was: San Diego 6, San Francisco 1; Houston 1, Florida 0; Chicago 16, Cincinnati 7; New York 3, Washington 2; Atlanta 11, Los Angeles 10; Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 2; and Colorado 3, Arizona 2 in 11 innings.

At Philadelphia, Carpenter got the win by allowing four runs and nine hits in five innings.

Pat Burrell and Ryan Howard homered for the Phillies, who ended up with their most lopsided opening-day defeat since a 12-3 defeat to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935. Loser Jon Lieber gave up eight runs and nine hits in 3 1-3 innings.

Padres 6, Giants 1

Barry Bonds bounced a ground-rule double on the first pitch he saw this season, but the defending NL West champion Padres won as Mike Piazza homered off Jason Schmidt in his first at-bat with San Diego.

Bonds went 1-for-4. A fan tossed a syringe near Bonds as he came off the field after the bottom of the eighth inning. The syringe apparently did not have a needle.

"I just put it off the field so no one would get hurt," said Bonds, who is under investigation by baseball for alleged steroid use.

Khalil Greene also homered for San Diego, and Jake Peavy got the win by holding the visiting Giants to a run and four hits in seven innings.

Astros 1, Marlins 0

Roy Oswalt and Brad Lidge combined on a five-hitter at Houston. Craig Biggio doubled and scored on loser Joe Borowski's wild pitch in the seventh as the defending NL champion Astros beat Florida in Joe Girardi's first game as the Marlins' manager.

Cubs 16, Reds 7

After President Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch, Matt Murton homered in a five-run first and Todd Walker singled home a pair of runs in a seven-run sixth.

The visiting Cubs scored a club-record 16 runs in their opener for the second year in a row and stretched their first-game winning streak to four. The Reds hadn't given so many opening-day runs since a 24-6 loss to Louisville in 1877.

Will Ohman got the win in relief of Carlos Zambrano. Loser Aaron Harang gave up nine runs -- six earned -- and nine hits in five innings.

Mets 3, Nationals 2

Billy Wagner got a save in his Mets' debut, Tom Glavine outpitched Livan Hernandez in a matchup of World Series MVPs, and newcomer Xavier Nady went 4-for-4

Washington's Alfonso Soriano, who made his major league outfield debut, was thrown out when he tried to score in the eighth on Ryan Zimmerman's double into the left-field corner. Jose Reyes' accurate relay throw to the plate beat a diving Soriano, but replays showed umpire Tim Tschida missed the call -- catcher Paul Lo Duca juggled and dropped the ball after applying the tag.

Making his seventh opening-day start, Glavine allowed one run and six hits in six innings for his 276th career win. Coming off right knee surgery last October, Hernandez gave up three runs and eight hits in six innings.

Braves 11, Dodgers 10

Visiting Atlanta, seeking its 15th straight division championship, built an 8-1 lead and then hung on as Tim Hudson and the bullpen struggled.

Adam LaRoche and Andruw Jones hit three-run homers off loser Derek Lowe, and the Braves spoiled manager Grady Little's debut. Oscar Villarreal worked 1 1-3 scoreless innings for the victory and Chris Reitsma, the seventh Atlanta pitcher, survived a two-run ninth for the save.

Brewers 5, Pirates 2

Jeff Cirillo hit a two-run single in the seventh off loser Damaso Marte for a 3-2 lead and Carlos Lee hit a two-run homer in the eighth at Milwaukee.

Brewers reliever Justin Lehr got just his third major league win, pitching one hitless inning. Brewers closer Derrick Turnbow finished with a one-hit ninth for the save, one day after agreeing to a $6.5 million, three-year contract.

Rockies 3, Diamondbacks 2

Matt Holliday dashed home on Brad Hawpe's grounder against loser Jason Grimsley and dived in ahead of the throw for the winning run in the 11th at Denver. Mike DeJean pitched a scoreless inning for the victory.

Jason Jennings allowed one run on six hits over seven innings for Colorado, his first start since he broke his right middle finger trying to break up a double play at Washington on July 20.