Pedro Martinez took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning before giving up Antonio Perez's triple and Jayson Werth's two-run homer, and the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled out a 2-1 victory Sunday over the New York Mets.
Brad Penny (6-7) scattered 10 hits in his first complete game with the Dodgers and third in 155 career starts. He struck out nine and walked none.
Martinez (12-5) struck out five, walked one and retired 20 consecutive batters before Perez drove a 1-1 pitch over the head of 39-year-old Gerald Williams and off the left-center fence.
Marlins 4, Giants 1
In Miami, A.J. Burnett won his sixth consecutive start, pitching into the eighth inning.
Juan Pierre had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run for Florida. He also made a diving catch of pinch-hitter Randy Winn's short fly ball to center field with two men on to end the game.
Burnett (11-6) took a three-hitter into the eighth, then gave up three consecutive singles to load the bases. Antonio Alfonseca got Edgardo Alfonzo to ground into a double play, which scored a run, and Pedro Feliz struck out to end the inning.
Braves 13, Diamondbacks 8
In Atlanta, Jeff Francoeur hit a three-run homer and threw out two runners at the plate, and Atlanta scored seven runs in the third inning.
Francoeur drove in a fourth run with a bases-loaded walk, and Chipper Jones also had four RBIs with a homer and two doubles. Rookies Ryan Langerhans and Kelly Johnson added homers for the Braves.
Pirates 8, Astros 0
In Houston, Dave Williams (10-8) pitched his first complete game and Jack Wilson hit a grand slam for one of Pittsburgh's four homers, leading the Pirates to their second consecutive shutout of Houston.
Jason Bay, Jose Castillo and Ryan Doumit also connected for the Pirates, who have blanked Houston four times this season. The Astros, who hold a slim lead in the NL wild-card race, have been shut out 14 times overall -- most in Major League Baseball.
Phillies 8, Padres 3
In San Diego, rookie Robinson Tejeda (3-2) pitched seven strong innings and Philadelphia beat San Diego, dropping the National League West division leaders below .500.
Chase Utley and Pat Burrell had two-run singles in a seven-run fifth inning for the Phillies, who moved within a half-game of Houston in the NL wild-card race with their first road sweep of a three-game series this season.
Chan Ho Park (1-1) allowed six runs and five hits in four-plus innings for San Diego, which has lost four of five but maintained its three-game lead over Arizona.
Nationals 9, Rockies 2
In Denver, John Patterson (7-3) won his third straight start with eight innings of one-run ball and Washington completed its seventh series sweep of the season.
Nick Johnson hit a three-run home run and Jose Guillen added a solo shot for the Nationals. Former Colorado outfielder Preston Wilson, acquired by Washington in July, had two hits and two RBIs.
Brewers 8, Reds 3
In Milwaukee, rookie Corey Hart hit his first career homer, a three-run shot that capped a five-run eighth inning, and Milwaukee snapped Cincinnati's 10-game road winning streak.
Lyle Overbay hit a go-ahead single in the eighth for Milwaukee, which had lost its last five games.
Cubs 5, Cardinals 4
At Chicago, Mark Prior won for the first time in almost a month, getting help from Kerry Wood out of the bullpen to lead Chicago over St. Louis.
Pinch-hitter Jose Macias hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the sixth inning off Matt Morris (12-5), shortly after he'd been hit by a line drive.
Following an eight-game losing streak, the Cubs won three of four games from the NL Central-leading Cardinals in the spirited series at Wrigley Field.
Prior (8-4) pitched six innings, giving up seven hits and three runs.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
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