Chipper, Andruw Jones lead way for Braves

The Atlanta Braves might be getting used to playing in San Diego's Petco Park after all. Andruw Jones hit a pair of two-run homers and Chipper Jones had four singles and scored three runs to lead the Braves to a 10-6 win over the Padres on Wednesday night.

Atlanta scored four runs total in the first two games of the series, prompting Chipper Jones to lament Tuesday about the Braves' inability to score runs in San Diego.

"This is a difficult park to hit in," Chipper Jones said Wednesday. "It's a spacious yard, but they have always pitched well against us here and they play good defense, so it's not an easy place to score runs.

"Just as I say that, we come out and score 10. I guess I'm going to have to use the reverse psychology more often."

Edgar Renteria also homered, Andruw Jones scored three runs and Adam LaRoche had three RBIs for the Braves, who took two of three from the slumping Padres.

San Diego lost for the seventh time in nine games.

In other NL games, it was: Florida 9, Chicago 3; St. Louis 10, San Francisco 4; Arizona 8, Pittsburgh 7; Washington 5, Houston 1; New York 5, Philadelphia 4; Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 2; and Los Angeles 7, Colorado 1.

Atlanta's John Thomson (2-3) went 7 1-3 innings for the win, allowing eight hits and six runs, four earned. He struck out three and walked one.

San Diego's Chris Young (3-3) was knocked out after three innings, his shortest start of the year.

Young fell behind 3-0 before he got two outs in the first inning. Renteria hit a solo homer into the home-run porch down the right-field line with one out, Chipper Jones singled and Andruw Jones ended his 71 at-bat homerless drought by going deep into the left-field corner.

"It felt good, period," Andruw Jones said. "Everybody came out swinging the bat pretty good and when guys made mistakes we took advantage. I had a couple of fastballs to hit and I just jumped on them, hit them out of the park."

Cardinals 10, Giants 4

Adam Wainwright homered in his first major league at-bat and pitched three innings of relief to earn the win for the visiting Cardinals.

Giants slugger Barry Bonds had the day off and remains at 714 career home runs. He will resume his bid to pass Babe Ruth and move into sole possession of second place on the career homer list Friday night against the Rockies.

Albert Pujols singled twice and So Taguchi hit a solo homer and finished with three RBIs for St. Louis. Wainwright (2-1) allowed four hits and two runs, struck out one and didn't walk a batter.

Cy Young winner Chris Carpenter was scratched before the game by St. Louis with swelling in the right side of his upper back near the shoulder blade. Right-handed reliever Brad Thompson made a fill-in start for the Cardinals, his first career outing as a starter, and pitched two innings.

San Francisco starter Noah Lowry (1-2) allowed 10 hits and three earned runs in six innings.

Dodgers 7, Rockies 1

Aaron Sele pitched seven shutout innings, Jeff Kent and Rafael Furcal had three hits each, and Los Angeles won its seventh straight game.

The Dodgers swept a six-game homestand for the first time since May 1994. They have 11 wins in their last 12 games at Dodger Stadium.

The Dodgers scored all their runs after two were out in this game -- raising their record to 15-3 since a five-game losing streak dropped them a season-high five games below .500. They are a season-high seven games over .500.

Sele (3-0) allowed three hits while walking one and striking out five.

The Dodgers took a 2-0 lead off Aaron Cook (5-4) in the third on consecutive two-out singles by Kenny Lofton, Nomar Garciaparra, J.D. Drew and Kent.

Marlins 9, Cubs 3

Joe Borchard and Miguel Cabrera hit three-run homers and the Marlins roughed up Greg Maddux to complete a three-game sweep.

The last-place Marlins posted their longest winning streak of the season. They also kept Maddux (5-4) winless in May after he got off to the best start of his career.

Maddux gave up six runs and eight hits in six innings for the visiting Cubs.

Brian Moehler (2-4) pitched seven effective innings to get the win.

Mets 5, Phillies 4

David Wright homered for the third straight game and then drove in the tiebreaking run with a seventh-inning single as New York rallied to get the win.

Pat Burrell tied it for the visiting Phillies in the seventh against Pedro Feliciano (1-0) with his 12th home run of the season and 33rd of his career against the Mets. But New York came right back in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead against reliever Rheal Cormier (2-1). Carlos Beltran, who also homered, singled. Carlos Delgado and Wright, who had three hits, followed with singles to score Beltran.

Billy Wagner worked a perfect ninth for his 10th save and first against his former Phillies teammates.

Brewers 6, Reds 2

Carlos Lee homered for the first time in 14 games, a two-run shot that helped Milwaukee salvage the finale of a three-game series. His homer was his 16th of the season and first since May 9.

Doug Davis (3-3) allowed five hits and two runs in seven innings to get the win.

The Brewers took a 1-0 lead against Brandon Claussen (3-5) before making an out in the first inning. Milwaukee, which had lost four of its last five games, extended the lead to 3-0 in the second.

Nationals 5, Astros 1

Ryan Zimmerman tripled and scored in Washington's four-run eighth inning.

Zimmerman scored on Daryle Ward's pinch-hit RBI single, Matthew LeCroy came home on a wild pitch by Brad Lidge, and Alfonso Soriano and Royce Clayton singled off Lidge to complete an outburst that gave the Nationals their fourth win in five games.

Morgan Ensberg hit his 16th homer for visiting Houston.

Gary Majewski (2-2) got the win and Dan Wheeler (0-3) picked up the loss.

Diamondbacks 8, Pirates 7

Orlando Hudson had four hits, Andy Green drove in a career-high three runs, and Arizona completed a three-game sweep.

Hudson went 4-for-4 to tie a career high for hits and raise his batting average from .218 to .237.

Miguel Batista (4-2) allowed two earned runs and seven hits in six innings for the host Diamondbacks.

Arizona closer Jose Valverde allowed two runs in the ninth before finishing up for his 14th save.

The Pirates have lost four straight and six of seven. Zach Duke (2-6) took the loss, allowing four earned runs and nine hits in six innings.