SAN FRANCISCO: Andres Torres scored on Angel Pagan’s walk-off double off Luke Gregerson and San Francisco snapped San Diego’s three-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory on Friday.
Torres reached base on a fielder’s choice before stealing second and scoring easily on Pagan’s one-out double to right field off Gregerson (1-2), allowing the Giants to win the opener of their six-game homestand.
Santiago Casilla (2-1) worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief for the win after starter Madison Bumgarner turned in another stellar outing.
Bumgarner and three relievers recorded 14 strikeouts against the Padres, who were unable to capitalize on a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Rockies 3 Diamondbacks 1: Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer and Jhoulys Chacin pitched 6 1/3 shutout innings before leaving with left oblique stiffness as host Colorado won its seventh straight game. Chacin (3-0), who missed a start in spring training because of back spasms, allowed three hits and also delivered a sacrifice fly.
Chacin pitched into the seventh inning for the third time in 2013 after doing it twice in 14 starts last season before being shut down with a pectoral muscle injury.
Ian Kennedy (1-2) allowed three runs and three hits while striking out six in six innings for Arizona.
The Rockies improved to 7-0 at home.
Brewers 5 Cubs 4: Ryan Braun and Carlos Gomez hit home runs to power host Milwaukee to its fifth consecutive victory in the opener of a three-game series against National League Central rival Chicago.
The Brewers jumped on Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija early as Braun’s three-run blast to left sparked a four-run first inning.
Samardzija (1-3) settled in after that, keeping Milwaukee off the board until Gomez’s solo shot in the seventh, but the Cubs never dug out of the hole.
Milwaukee starter Marco Estrada (2-0) surrendered homers to Luis Valbuena and David DeJesus in the three-run third, but didn’t allow anything more over six innings.
Phillies 8 Cardinals 2 (7): Roy Halladay yielded two hits — both solo home runs — in seven innings and hosts Philadelphia used a five-run first inning to snap a four-game losing streak.
Halladay (2-2), who won his 200th career game in his last start, retired 14 in a row after Carlos Beltran’s home run in the second inning — his second in as many nights.
The game was called in the middle of the seventh inning because of rain. Humberto Quintero had two hits and two RBIs for the Phillies.
Pirates 6 Braves 0: Wandy Rodriguez and two relievers faced the minimum number of batters as host Pittsburgh handed Atlanta its third shutout.
Rodriguez (2-0), who left his last start April 8 after just 2 1/3 innings with a strained left hamstring and was scratched from his scheduled outing Sunday, yielded one single and struck out five in seven dominant innings.
Relievers Mark Melancon and Vin Mazzaro saw a total of six batters in the final two frames as the Pirates used two double plays to erase the Braves’ only two hits.
Pedro Alvarez hit a two-run shot, his second home run in as many nights, and Garrett Jones drove in a pair of runs against Braves starter Tim Hudson (2-1), who gave up six runs on nine hits in four innings in losing his first chance at career win No. 200.
Mets 7 Nationals 1: Ike Davis and Lucas Duda each homered twice for host New York and Matt Harvey allowed one run in seven innings in the opener of the three-game series to become the major league’s first four-game winner.
Harvey (4-0) allowed four hits and pitched out of a bases-loaded no-out jam in the seventh inning. Davis and Duda hit solo homers in the sixth inning and both went deep again in the eighth to pace the New York offense.
Marlins 2 Reds 1: Justin Ruggiano hit the tiebreaking solo homer off Aroldis Chapman in the top of the ninth as visiting Miami downed Cincinnati. Chapman (2-1) retired Chris Valaika on a grounder to start the ninth, but Ruggiano drilled a 3-1 changeup from the hard-throwing left-hander into the seats in left-center.
Mike Dunn (1-0) struck out both batters he faced in the eighth and Steve Cishek worked around a leadoff single in the ninth for his first save.
Ruggiano — who has three of Miami’s five home runs — went deep for the second time in as many games.
Dodgers at Orioles, postponed
Los Angeles’ first meeting with Baltimore since 2004 was postponed after a rain delay of nearly two hours.
