Braves 4, Marlins 3
At Atlanta, Jeff Francoeur, Ryan Langerhans and Brian McCann had RBIs in the eighth inning and Atlanta moved a step closer to a 14th straight division title.
McCann's two-out single off closer Todd Jones (1-5) capped the rally that reduced the Braves' magic number to five for winning the NL East.
Josh Beckett extended his scoreless streak against the Braves to 19 innings this season, leaving after the seventh with a 3-0 lead. The Marlins have two wins in their last nine games and remained three games behind Houston in the wild-card race.
Carlos Delgado drove in all three Marlins runs with an RBI single in the first and a two-run homer in the third off John Smoltz.
Giants 7, Rockies 6
At Denver, Barry Bonds, who had his streak of four straight games with a homer stopped, drew a key walk in San Francisco's rally over Denver from four runs down in the eighth inning.
The Giants (72-81) improved to 7-1 with Bonds in the starting lineup and remained five games behind first-place San Diego in the NL West. San Diego beat Arizona 5-3 on Friday night.
Bonds finished with two singles, a walk and an RBI. The unintentional four-pitch walk came off Mike DeJean (5-4) with the Giants trailing by four and two men on. Moises Alou followed with a two-run double and Ray Durham followed with a two-run single to tie it. Pinch-hitter J.T. Snow singled in the go-ahead run to complete the five-run inning.
Jeremy Accardo (1-4) pitched the seventh to pick up the win. Tyler Walker got the final two outs for his 23rd save.
Matt Holliday and Danny Ardoin hit homers off Matt Kinney, who was making his first start of the season, to help Colorado to a 6-0 lead after three innings.
Mets 5, Nationals 2, 10 innings
At Washington, Carlos Beltran's three-run homer in the 10th lifted New York, which led 2-0 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth when pinch-hitter Carlos Baerga hit a two-run homer off reliever Roberto Hernandez, who has blown six of seven save opportunities this season.
Beltran hit his 16th homer off Gary Majewski (4-4) with two outs in the 10th. He also had a single and double. Cliff Floyd also had three hits, including a 380-foot single off the wall that drove in the Mets' first two runs.
Floyd threw out Nick Johnson at third base in the fourth inning for his league-leading 15th outfield assist.
Hernandez (8-6), who gave up a single to Ryan Zimmerman before Baerga's homer, earned the win. Aaron Heilman pitched the 10th for his second save.
Padres 5, Diamondbacks 3
At Phoenix, Khalil Greene homered and drove in three runs and San Diego maintained its five-game lead over San Francisco in the NL West and trimmed its magic number to five with nine games to go.
Ramon Hernandez had an RBI single and Brian Giles added an RBI double off Arizona reliever Oscar Villarreal in San Diego's two-run eighth inning.
The Padres (77-76) moved back over .500 with their sixth win in nine games after a four-game losing streak. The Giants kept pace with a 7-6 victory at Colorado.
Pedro Astacio (3-2) allowed two runs and six hits in six-plus innings.
Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his 38th consecutive save and 41st overall.
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