National Leauge
Derrek Lee hit a three-run, eighth-inning double against his former team, and the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Florida Marlins 5-2 Saturday and maintain their NL wild-card lead.
The Cubs began the day one percentage point ahead of San Francisco, which played at Arizona later Saturday. Houston fell one game back and the defending World Series champion Marlins and San Diego dropped 2 1/2 games off the pace.
Ryan Dempster (1-1) won in relief of Carlos Zambrano, and LaTroy Hawkins pitched the ninth for his 21st save. Guillermo Mota (9-6) was the loser, and Rudy Seanez allowed Lee's go-ahead hit.
Phillies 11, Mets 9
In New York, David Bell's second home run of the game, a drive off Vic Darensbourg (0-1) that broke a 13th-inning tie, capped a comeback from a 6-2 sixth-inning deficit. The Phillies, 4 1/2 games out in the wild-card race, have won five straight and eight of nine.
Bell and Jason Michaels hit RBI singles in the ninth for a 9-7 lead but the Mets, who have lost 18 of 20, came back with two unearned runs in the bottom half, tying the score on Wilson Delgado's two-out single against Billy Wagner, who then was ejected by plate umpire Dana DeMuth after throwing two high-and-tight pitches to Cliff Floyd.
Roberto Hernandez (3-5) won and Felix Rodriguez got his first save since July 11 last year. The teams combined to use 18 pitchers, tying the major league record.
Giants 5, Diamondbacks 3
In Phoenix, Barry Bonds broke his major league record for walks in a season and rookie Noah Lowry allowed four hits in seven-plus innings in San Francisco's win over Arizona.
Bonds walked three times, once intentionally, to run his season total to 201, surpassing the record of 198 he set two seasons ago.
Lowry (4-0) struck out four and walked three. The 23-year-old left-hander blanked Arizona on two hits until Chad Tracy's pinch-hit home run with one out in the seventh.
Dodgers 6, Cardinals 5
In Los Angeles, Cesar Izturis hit a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth inning, Steve Finley homered for the fourth time in three games and Los Angeles beat St. Louis for its fifth straight victory.
David Ross led off the eighth with a bunt single against Julian Tavarez. Cal Eldred (3-2) relieved, and Jose Hernandez hit a grounder to second baseman Tony Womack, whose hurried flip to Gold Glove shortstop Edgar Renteria was dropped for an error. Both runners advanced on a passed ball by rookie Yadier Molina, and Izturis drove a 3-1 pitch to center field to put the Dodgers back in front.
Reliever Scott Stewart (1-0) got the win, retiring one batter -- Jim Edmonds on a groundout to end the eighth.
American League
Rookies Bobby Crosby and Nick Swisher hit back-to-back homers in the eighth, and the Oakland Athletics stopped their five-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.
Scott Hatteberg had a two-run double for the A's, who entered with a one-game lead over Anaheim in the AL West. Travis Hafner's three-run homer in the seventh staked Cleveland to a 4-0 lead.
Ricardo Rincon (1-0) pitched out of an eighth-inning jam for his first decision in 57 appearances this season, and Octavio Dotel pitched the ninth for his 19th save. Howry (1-1) was the loser.
Yankees 5, Orioles 2
In Baltimore, Orlando Hernandez pitched seven innings of five-hit ball to become the first Yankees starter to open the season 8-0 since Bob Wickman in 1993. New York, which remained 2 1/2 games ahead of Boston in the AL East, is 11-1 in his starts.
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