Tony Campana reached on a fielder’s choice, stole second and scored when Barney doubled to right off Henry Rodriguez (3-2). It was Barney’s third hit and RBI of the game.
This was the second straight night a team blew an 8-0 lead. Cincinnati was up 8-0 in the fifth inning and beat St. Louis 9-8 in 13 innings on Wednesday.
Each Washington starter had at least one hit as the Nationals built an 8-0 lead in the fourth inning.
Chicago scored six runs in the sixth and two runs in the seventh to tie it.
Marlins 5 Astros 0: In Miami, Mike Stanton homered and Florida’s Brad Hand allowed two hits over seven innings for his first victory in the major leagues.
Logan Morrison drove in two runs and Emilio Bonifacio had three hits for the Marlins.
Hand (1-3), a 21-year old rookie left-hander, had his longest outing and held the Astros without a hit until one out in the fifth when Clint Barmes singled to center. Hand lowered his ERA to 2.77 in five starts. He was sent down to Double-A Jacksonville after the game so he could stay on schedule through the All-Star break.
The Astros, who tied a season-low with three hits, have lost six of seven. It was the fourth time they have been shut out this season.
Brewers 5 Reds 4: In Milwaukee, Rickie Weeks hit a three-run homer and Milwaukee’s bullpen held on in the opener of a four-game series.
Weeks hit a line-drive shot off Homer Bailey (3-4) as the Brewers built a 5-2 lead in the fifth.
LaTroy Hawkins gave up a run in the eighth and John Axford got into serious trouble in the ninth, allowing a leadoff home run to Ramon Hernandez and putting runners on the corners with two outs before getting Brandon Phillips to ground out for his 23rd save.
Braves 6 Rockies 3: In Atlanta, Freddie Freeman hit a three-run homer, his fourth of the series, and Atlanta completed its first four-game sweep of Colorado in 18 years.
Jason Heyward homered for the streaking Braves, who have won nine of 10 and 14 of 17.
Freeman, the rookie first baseman, hit four homers and drove in seven runs in the series. His homer was the highlight of a five-run third inning that knocked Juan Nicasio (3-2) out of the game. Nicasio gave up six straight hits in the inning.
Diamondbacks 4 Cardinals 1: In St. Louis, Justin Upton hit a two-run homer and Joe Saunders threw five scoreless innings to lead Arizona.
The Diamondbacks won for the fourth time in the last six games.
St. Louis, which lost for the fourth time in six games, fell into the first-place tie with Milwaukee in the NL Central.
Saunders (6-7) allowed one hit, struck out one and walked four. He was removed from the game after a 50-minute rain delay in the sixth inning.
Upton hit his 15th homer of the season off Kyle McClellan (6-6), who has not won since May 19, covering his last six starts. McClellan returned after the delay and gave up the homer to Upton on his sixth pitch following the layoff.
Giants 2 Padres 1: In San Francisco, Barry Zito won his third straight start since coming off the disabled list and Eli Whiteside homered for San Francisco.
Zito allowed one run and four hits over eight innings with a season-high seven strikeouts while beating the Padres for the first time in nearly three years. The left-hander did not walk a batter and retired 14 of the final 16 hitters he faced.
Pablo Sandoval extended his career-high hitting streak to 18 games while helping San Francisco to its second straight win over its division rival after losing the first two games of the series.
Ryan Ludwick homered for San Diego, who fell to 3-4 on its 10-game road trip.
Dodgers 6 Mets 0: In Los Angeles, Clayton Kershaw scattered five hits over eight innings and Los Angeles parlayed extra-base hits by Matt Kemp , Juan Uribe , Aaron Miles and Dioner Navarro into a five-run sixth inning that helped it snap a five-game losing skid.
The loss ended the Mets’ four-game winning streak and kept them from sweeping the Dodgers for the first time in four games at Chavez Ravine.
