NEW YORK: Cincinatti and Washington achieved rare offensive feats in scoring Major League baseball victories on Tuesday.

The Reds made five steals in the second inning — with Jay Bruce getting two of them — against the slow wind-up of left-hander Jorge De La Rosa on their way to a 4-3 home win over Colorado.

Brandon Phillips had four hits, and Billy Hamilton doubled home a pair of runs during that four-run second inning off De La Rosa (1-2). The Reds hadn’t stolen so many bases during an inning since at least the 1920s, per information provided by the teams from the Elias Sports Bureau. It was the most steals that the Rockies had ever allowed in an inning.

Rookie Robert Stephenson (2-0) got his second win as an injury fill-in, called up from Triple-A earlier in the day because scheduled starter Alfredo Simon has a strained biceps.

Washington hit four home runs in a seven-run seventh inning to win 7-0 in Miami.

The four homers in an inning, including Bryce Harper’s second career home run, and second in five days, was a Nationals record. It was also an unwanted record for the Marlins pitchers.

Stephen Strasburg (3-0) allowed three hits in eight scoreless innings. He was locked in a scoreless duel with Adam Conley until Jayson Werth hit his 200th career homer with one out in the seventh.

Wilson Ramos homered on the next pitch, and after Washington loaded the bases, Harper hit his seventh homer off left-hander Chris Narveson. Ryan Zimmerman followed with a solo homer, his first.

In Minneapolis, an eighth-inning homer to South Korean Byung Ho Park was not enough to save the Twins in a 6-5 loss to Milwaukee.

Park and Eddie Rosario hit home runs in the eighth off Tyler Thornburg (2-0) to tie it at 5, but Scooter Gennett hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth to end Minnesota’s four-game winning streak.

In St. Louis, Jason Hammel worked six sharp innings and had both RBIs in a 2-1 victory for Chicago.

Chicago leads the majors at 11-3 and goes for a three-game sweep Wednesday over the defending NL Central champions. They last swept St. Louis in three games on the road Sept. 13-15, 2010.

With Mark McGwire managing for the first time in place of ejected Andy Green, Wil Myers and Derek Norris hit two-run homers and Adam Rosales added a solo shot for the San Diego Padres, who rallied at home to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4.

Green was tossed for arguing after a sequence in which Andrew McCutchen was awarded home on a balk by Colin Rea, and then the umpires twice reversed their call, eventually giving the Pirates the run. McGwire came out to lead Green off the field.

McGwire, baseball’s one-time single-season home run king, was hired as Green’s bench coach in December.

In other games, Tampa Bay won 3-0 at Boston, Oakland won 3-2 at the New York Yankees in 11 innings, Kansas City won 8-6 against the visiting Detroit, the New York Mets hit six home runs en route to an 11-1 romp at Philadelphia, the Rangers won at home against Texas rivals Houston 7-5, Toronto won 4-3 at Baltimore, the White Sox shut out the Los Angeles Angels 5-0 in Chicago, Cleveland won 3-2 at home to Seattle, Atlanta buried the visiting Dodgers 8-1, and the Diamondbacks won at San Francisco, 3-0.