Carlos Ruiz homered leading off the 10th inning as the Philadelphia Phillies benefited from an umpire’s bad call to complete a three-game series sweep of the Florida Marlins with a 5-4 victory on Thursday.
A ruling by third base umpire Bob Davidson cost the Marlins a victory in the ninth. Gaby Sanchez pulled a grounder over third base for a hit that would have scored Hanley Ramirez from second base, but Davidson ruled the ball foul.
Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez argued in vain, and replays showed ball landed inside the line behind the base.
Ruiz, who had a two-run double in the sixth, broke the tie in the 10th with his fifth homer off Will Ohman (0-1).
Braves 3, Giants 2
At Atlanta, Georgia, Eric Hinske snapped an 0-for-17 hitless streak with a tiebreaking, sixth-inning home run off San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum.
Alex Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in the second inning — his second for Atlanta — for the other runs off Lincecum (11-5).
Jair Jurrjens (4-4) went six innings for the Braves, allowing seven hits, two runs and three walks. Billy Wagner picked up his 26th save with a scoreless ninth.
Lincecum, who had won six of his seven previous starts against Atlanta, gave up six hits and three runs in 6 1-3 innings.
Pirates 5, Rockies 1
At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James McDonald pitched six shutout innings in his Pittsburgh debut as Colorado lost its seventh straight road game.
Five days after being acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers, McDonald (1-1) had eight strikeouts — as many as any Pirates starter had all season. He allowed four hits and a walk in his second start of the season and sixth of his career.
Garrett Jones and Ronny Cedeno homered for Pittsburgh, which came in having lost six of its past seven.
Troy Tulowitzki had the lone RBI and three of the Rockies’ seven hits — all singles. Colorado had won five of its past six since snapping an eight-game losing streak.
Jones snapped an 0-for-20 hitless stretch by leading off the second against Jeff Francis (4-4) with his team-leading 15th homer.
Also on Thursday, it was:
• Diamondbacks 8, Nationals 4
• Padres 5, Dodgers 0
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Mark Kotsay hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning, then lined a two-run triple in the 11th to send the Chicago White Sox past the Detroit Tigers 6-4 on Thursday.
Detroit’s Ryan Raburn hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth off Bobby Jenks to tie it at 4-4.
Sergio Santos (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings for his first major league win. Freddy Garcia pitched 6 2-3 strong innings for the AL Central leaders.
Kotsay’s go-ahead triple came off Jose Valverde (1-3). Brent Lillibridge and Andruw Jones hit one-out singles in the 11th before Kotsay’s drive into the right-center field gap.
Twins 8, Rays 6
At St Petersburg, Florida, Jason Kubel’s two-out popup hit a catwalk high above Tropicana Field and fell near the pitcher’s mound for a go-ahead single in the ninth inning that sent Minnesota past Tampa Bay.
The Rays scored six times in the eighth, capped by pinch-hitter Jason Barlett’s grand slam.
Michael Cuddyer added a more conventional RBI single off Joaquin Benoit (0-1) later in the Twins’ ninth.
Matt Capps (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings for the win.
Orioles 5, Angels 4
At Baltimore, Maryland, Cesar Izturis singled in the winning run in the ninth inning as Baltimore remained unbeaten under new manager Buck Showalter, defeating Los Angeles for a three-game sweep.
Matt Wieters led off the ninth with a double off Francisco Rodriguez (0-3). After pinch-runner Julio Lugo took third on a bunt by Corey Patterson, the Angels packed the drawn-up infield with six players.
Izturis then lined a single up the middle, sparking a wild celebration by the Orioles around first base.
Jason Berken (3-2) got the win despite giving up a three-run, game-tying homer to Torii Hunter in the eighth.
Also on Thursday, it was:
• Red Sox 6, Indians 2
• Rangers 6, Mariners 0
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