Diamondbacks reverse slide vs. Giants with 6-0 win

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Sun, 2010-08-29 00:14

Lincecum (11-9) has never lost five starts in a row before. His ERA in August is 7.82.
The winner of the last two NL Cy Young awards, Lincecum gave up four runs on five hits in six innings.
Adam LaRoche homered, and Stephen Drew doubled, tripled and scored three times for Arizona, which snapped a seven-game losing streak to San Francisco.
Enright (5-2) scattered six hits over seven innings with four strikeouts and two walks for Arizona, which had lost six straight at AT&T Park.
Phillies 3 Padres 2, 12 innings: In San Diego, Brad Lidge balked home the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, forcing Philadelphia to play three more innings before beating NL West-leading San Diego on a perfect slide by Jimmy Rollins .
Rollins doubled to the right-field wall off rookie Ernesto Frieri (0-1) leading off the 12th and came around to score on Placido Polanco’s single to center. Luis Durango made a strong throw to catcher Yorvit Torrealba , but Rollins slid wide to avoid the tag and reached back with his left hand to touch the plate.
Philadelphia, which had been swept in four home games by Houston, took a half-game lead over San Francisco in the wild-card race and pulled within two games of first-place Atlanta in the NL East.
Reds 7 Cubs 1: In Cincinnati, Jay Bruce homered in three consecutive at-bats, matching his career high with five RBIs.
The Reds are 10-3 since getting swept at home by the St. Louis Cardinals from Aug. 9-11. The streak pushed Cincinnati back ahead of the Cardinals in the NL Central, which the Reds have led for the last 13 days.
Johnny Cueto (12-4) got his first win since serving a seven-game suspension for kicking a couple of Cardinals during a brawl in their series. The right-hander gave up a run and six hits in eight innings.
Marlins 7 Braves 1: In Atlanta, Florida led off a game with back-to-back homers for the first time in franchise history, Chris Volstad pitched eight strong innings and the Marlins romped past slumping Atlanta.
The NL East leaders lost their fourth in a row, their worst slump since a nine-game skid in April. The last two defeats have been especially ugly — Atlanta squandered a 10-1 lead at Colorado and fell 12-10, then got blown out by the Marlins, who have won eight of 10.
Cameron Maybin hit the first pitch of the game into the left-field seats, ending Tommy Hanson’s streak of 47 2-3 innings without giving up a homer. Logan Morrison then connected off Hanson (8-10) for his first major league home run.
Cardinals 4 Nationals 2: In Washington,  on the day injured phenom Stephen Strasburg was declared done for the season, another rookie kept humming along, pitching St. Louis to a victory over Washington.
Jaime Garcia tossed 5 1-3 scoreless innings and Albert Pujols hit his 401st home run as the Cardinals broke a three-game skid. Matt Holliday also went deep.
Garcia (12-6) tied a season high with seven strikeouts and extended his streak to 20 1-3 innings without allowing an earned run. The 24-year-old left-hander leads major league rookies in wins.
St. Louis had lost eight of 11 — including three straight to last-place teams — to fall behind in the NL Central and wild-card races.
Pujols, who hit his 400th home run Thursday night and later twisted his ankle in a 13-inning loss, connected off Scott Olsen (3-7) for his 35th of the season and fifth in seven career games at Nationals Park.
Ryan Franklin got through a shaky ninth inning to earn his 22nd save in 24 chances.
Dodgers 6 Rockies 2: In Denver, Casey Blake hit a grand slam in a five-run eighth inning and Los Angeles beat Colorado ace Ubaldo Jimenez, who made his fourth unsuccessful attempt at a franchise-record 18th win.
Blake’s slam came off Matt Belisle , who relieved Jimenez after the first three batters reached base in the eighth. Scott Podsednik singled and Ryan Theriot walked before Andre Ethier doubled to tie it at 1.
Jonathan Broxton (5-4) got the win for the Dodgers, who are 21-7 against the Rockies dating to the start of the 2009 season. The loss ended Colorado’s four-game winning streak and was just their third defeat in 13 games at Coors Field, where they are 41-21 (.661).
Mets 2 Astros 1: In New York, Mike Pelfrey pitched eight dominant innings and New York took advantage of a wild outing by former teammate Nelson Figueroa to end Houston’s five-game winning streak.
Pelfrey (13-7) went at least seven innings for the fourth straight start, shutting down an Astros squad that was coming off a four-game sweep in Philadelphia. He threw a career-high 124 pitches and matched his major league best for wins in a season.
Right fielder Jeff Francoeur threw out a runner trying to score and Hisanori Takahashi escaped a ninth-inning jam for his second save.
Facing the hometown club that drafted him in 1995 and cut him in April, Figueroa (3-2) gave up only three hits in seven innings.
Brewers 7 Pirates 2: In Milwaukee, Alcides Escobar’s two-run triple sparked a six-run seventh inning for Milwaukee.
Chris Narveson pitched seven innings in his longest start since he went eight in a 3-0 win June 27 against Seattle. He allowed two runs and seven hits while striking out eight and walking one.
James McDonald (2-4) was cruising along in his 10th major league start before the seventh.
After Escobar’s triple, Jonathan Lucroy followed with an RBI single. Joe Inglett batted for Narveson (10-7) and singled for his major league-leading 19th pinch hit.
Corey Hart doubled in a run before Ryan Braun added a two-run double.
 

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