A dwindling crowd at Citizens Bank Park saw Raul Ibanez hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to decide the longest major league game of the season. It ended at 1:19 a.m.

after 6 hours, 11 minutes.

The teams were set to play again Thursday at 1:05 p.m.

Valdez threw a hitless 19th inning in his first professional pitching appearance to become the first position player to become a winning pitcher since Colorado catcher Brent Mayne on Aug. 22, 2000, STATS LLC said.

Valdez threw one pitch to the backstop and hit Scott Rolen. But the Phillies' newest right-hander then retired Jay Bruce on a fly ball and got down Reds reliever Carlos Fisher (0-1) on a popup.

Fisher finally wore down when Jimmy Rollins singled to open the 19th, Domonic Brown walked and Placido Polanco sacrificed. Thousands of fans derisively chanted "Fisher! Fisher!" before he intentionally walked Ryan Howard to load the bases. Ibanez hit a fly to deep center to win it.

Bruce homered in the 10th for the Reds, then Howard went deep and tied it in the bottom half. They ended up playing the longest game in the eight-season history of the ballpark.

At San Francisco, Scott Cousins scored the winning run in a hard collision with catcher Buster Posey at home in the 12th inning as Florida beat San Francisco after blowing a four-run lead in the ninth.

Emilio Bonifacio hit a short fly ball to right-center off Guillermo Mota (2-1) for the second out. Cousins tagged from third base, beating the throw from Nate Schierholtz and lowering his shoulder to slam into Posey for a clean - albeit cringing - hit. Posey lay dazed, writhing in pain and curling up in a ball for several minutes. He was helped off the field by two team trainers holding his left leg and looking stunned.

At Milwaukee, Zack Greinke hit a home run to put Milwaukee ahead and struck out 10 batters over seven innings in a win over Washington.

Prince Fielder drove in four runs for the Brewers, who are the hottest team in baseball over the last two weeks with 13 wins in 16 games.

Michael Morse hit his third homer in three days for the Nationals, who limped home on a season-worst five-game skid as part of an ugly 1-7 road trip.

Greinke (3-1) struck out at least one batter each inning.

Greinke swung at the first pitch he saw from Jason Marquis (5-2) in the fifth, hitting a towering fly ball down the left-field line to give Milwaukee a 4-3 lead.

At Houston, J.R. Towles broke out of an 0-for-32 slump with three hits, including an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning that gave Houston a win over Los Angeles.

Brett Wallace doubled off Matt Guerrier (2-3) and after Bill Hall flied out for the second out, Towles lined a drive into center field, scoring Wallace.

Mark Melancon (4-1) pitched a perfect ninth, striking out two.

At Pittsburgh, Brooks Conrad hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the 11th inning as Atlanta topped Pittsburgh.

With pinch-runner Wilkin Ramirez on first and one out, Conrad hit a 1-2 pitch from Jeff Karstens (3-3) into a sliver of seats in right-center for his first home run of the season and fifth career pinch-hit homer.

Eric Hinske hit a solo homer and Jordan Schafer and Alex Gonzalez each had two hits for the Braves, who have won three of four and got a strong outing from rookie Mike Minor in a spot start for Tim Hudson.

Steve Pearce homered for the first time in 20 months and went 3 for 5 with two RBIs for Pittsburgh, which has lost three straight.

Craig Kimbrel retired the Pirates in order in the 11th for his 14th save.

At Denver, Ian Kennedy tossed eight crisp innings and center fielder Chris Young robbed Ty Wigginton of a tying homer as Arizona beat Colorado.

Young drove in the go-ahead run with a bloop single in the sixth, then made his key grab in the eighth.

The Diamondbacks have won eight of their last nine to move over .500 for just the second time this season.

Kennedy (6-1) allowed seven hits. The lone run he surrendered came on Todd Helton's sacrifice fly in the fourth. J.J. Putz pitched a flawless ninth for his 14th save in 14 chances.

At Chicago, Dillon Gee recovered from a poor start to throw six solid innings as New York beat wild reliever Justin Berg and Chicago in a rain-shortened game.

The game was called with two outs in the top of the seventh inning after a 41-minute delay.

Berg threw 12 pitches — all balls — while walking three batters.

Carlos Beltran doubled, tripled, scored twice and drove in two more for the Mets. Beltran and Murphy hit two-run doubles in the big second off Casey Coleman (2-4) and Berg.

At San Diego, Chase Headley doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to lead Mat Latos and San Diego over St. Louis.

The Cardinals had won four in a row. San Diego, which has the NL's worst home record at 8-20, scored more than two runs for the first time in nine games.

Latos (2-6) pitched eight strong innings, allowing one run and six hits while striking out seven. Heath Bell pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances.