Jason Bay and Jeff Francoeur drove in two runs each for the Mets, while Jose Reyes had three hits and scored three times.
Two days after Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield tossed eight shutout innings to beat the Phillies, Dickey (1-0), called up from Triple-A Buffalo last Wednesday to replace an ineffective Oliver Perez in the rotation, escaped bases-loaded jams in each of the first three innings.
The 35-year-old right-hander allowed seven singles in six innings and struck out seven, matching his career high set June 2, 2004, for Texas at Cleveland. He walked three.
Jamie Moyer (5-4) lost as the Mets won their third straight and fourth of five.
Marlins 6 Braves 4: At Miami, Anibal Sanchez allowed two runs and five hits while pitching into the seventh inning and Cody Ross hit a two-run double in the eighth for Florida.
Sanchez (4-2) has won three straight starts for the first time since September 2006, a stretch four years ago that included his no-hitter against Arizona.
Cameron Maybin homered in the third inning and Florida tacked on three runs in the eighth.
Brian McCann hit a two-run double and Martin Prado had three hits for the Braves, who again struggled to give Kenshin Kawakami (0-7) run support. Jason Heyward hit a two-run single in the ninth off Leo Nunez, drawing Atlanta within two.
Kawakami, a 34-year-old Japanese righty, is winless in nine starts this season, and hasn’t won since beating the Marlins in Miami last Aug. 31 - 16 appearances ago.
Pirates 2 Reds 1: At Cincinnati, Pittsburgh’s Ryan Doumit hit a solo homer with two outs in the top of the ninth inning — his second game— deciding homer in three days.
Brandon Phillips tied it 1-all in the eighth with his 100th career homer off reliever Joel Hanrahan(1-0). Octavio Dotel pitched the ninth for his 10th save in 12 tries — he’s 7 for 7 in May.
Doumit had the first game-ending homer of his career in the 10th inning of Sunday’s 3-2 win over Atlanta. This time, he connected off Nick Masset(3-3), sending the Reds to their fourth loss in 11 games.
Mike Leake was trying to become the first Reds rookie to win his first five decisions since 1976, when Santo Alcala did it with the Big Red Machine. He didn’t allow an extra-base hit until center fielder Drew Stubbs lost Aki Iwamura’s routine fly ball in the lights, letting it drop for a leadoff triple in the eighth. Neil Walker, called up earlier in the day, doubled for a 1-0 lead and his first major league RBI.
Cubs 3 Dodgers 0: At Chicago, Ryan Dempster pitched three-hit ball over eight innings and Derrek Lee homered and drove in all three runs for Chicago.
Lee, who came in with a .218 average, had three hits as the Cubs won for the seventh time in nine games.
He drove in Ryan Theriot with a single off Clayton Kershaw (4-3) in the sixth after shortstop Rafael Furcal booted his grounder. Lee made it 3-0 in the eighth with a two-run shot off Ramon Trancoso — his sixth homer this season and 299th career — after Starlin Castro reached on a throwing error by Furcal.
Dempster (3-4) handed the Dodgers just their third loss in 15 games while earning his first win since April 23.
Carlos Marmol struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 12 chances.
Kershaw allowed one unearned run and four hits over six innings.
Brewers 6 Astros 1: At Milwaukee, Randy Wolf pitched seven scoreless innings and Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks homered as Milwaukee snapped an eight-game home losing streak.
The Brewers, who avoided their longest skid at home in 14 years, lost 11 of the past 13 overall.
Braun started it with a two-run homer in the first and Weeks’ two-run shot sealed it in the seventh.
In between, Wolf (4-4) was dominant after struggling through a miserable May. Milwaukee is still a franchise-worst 5-14 at home to start the year.
Houston starter Felipe Paulino (0-7) allowed two runs over six innings.
Milwaukee tacked on four runs in the seventh against reliever Chris Sampson, highlighted by Weeks’ blast.
Houston had four singles in seven innings off Wolf, who faced a bases-loaded jam in the second after two walks, and a two-on and two-out situation in the seventh. Both times, Wolf struck out the final batter to end the threat.
Rockies 3 Diamondbacks 2: At Denver, Jhoulys Chacin pitched six solid innings and Brad Hawpe and Troy Tulowitzki homered for Colorado.
Todd Helton had three hits for the Rockies, who have won three straight.
Conor Jackson doubled in a run and scored another for the Diamondbacks.
Hawpe led off the second with his fourth homer of the season, Miguel Olivo followed with a walk and Ian Stewart singled to left. After a one-out sacrifice by Chacin (3-2) moved the runners up, Olivo scored on a wild pitch by Ian Kennedy (3-3) to make it 2-0.
Tulowitzki made it 3-0 with a one-out homer in the third inning, his fifth of the season.
Chacin allowed two runs and four hits and picked up his first home win of his career. Manuel Corpas struck out Mark Reynolds with a runner on second to end the game and pick up his fourth save.
Kennedy gave up three runs and five hits in five innings.
Padres 1 Cardinals 0: At San Diego, Jon Garland threw seven innings and Jerry Hairston Jr. homered to lift San Diego.
Garland (6-2) won his sixth straight decision, holding the Cardinals to six hits, escaping a one-out, bases-loaded situation in the first inning and getting two inning-ending double plays. He struck out seven, walked two and allowed only two fly ball outs as he lowered his ERA to 2.10.
Mike Adams and Heath Bell pitched one inning apiece to combine for San Diego’s major-league leading ninth shutout. Bell picked up his 13th save in 15 opportunities.
St. Louis’ Albert Pujols broke out of his slump by getting three singles in four at-bats. Pujols came into the game with three hits in his last 20 at-bats over six games. He hadn’t driven in a run over his past nine games.
Hairston hit a hanging curveball from Adam Wainwright (6-3) in the second inning for his first homer since Aug. 26, when he was with the New York Yankees.
Wainwright allowed one run and four hits over seven innings and tied his career-high with 12 strikeouts.
Giants 4 Nationals 2: At San Francisco, pitcher Todd Wellemeyer singled and scored the go-ahead run to snap San Francisco’s 24-inning scoreless drought, Freddy Sanchez hit a two-run double, and the Giants ended a season-high five-game losing streak.
Wellemeyer (3-4) allowed four hits and two runs in six innings to improve to 3-0 lifetime against the Nationals. He sparked the Giants’ four-run fifth inning with a two-out single. Pablo Sandoval added an RBI double and Edgar Renteria singled in a run as San Francisco ended an 0-for-25 stretch with runners in scoring position.
The Giants tagged former San Francisco pitcher Livan Hernandez (4-3) for a season-high seven hits and season-high matching four runs in five innings.
Brian Wilson pitched the ninth for his 11th save in 12 opportunities.
The Giants won for the 12th time in the last 14 meetings in the series dating to the start of the 2008 season.
