Chase Utley hit his major league-leading 17th homer to help Adam Eaton earn his first win, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies 6-1 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
Eaton (1-3) allowed one run over six innings, Geoff Jenkins hit a two-run shot and the Phillies (31-24) moved a season-best seven games above .500 with their first sweep of the season. Philadelphia outscored Colorado 33-10 in the series.
The reeling Rockies are a season-worst 13 games under .500. The defending NL champions, who swept Philadelphia in the NLDS last October, have been decimated by injuries this season.
Eaton needed 11 starts to get his first win. He gave up four hits and struck out four in his best outing so far, lowering his ERA to 4.99.
Reds 9, Pirates 1
At Cincinnati, David Ross hit his first homer of the season to put the finishing touch on a six-run first inning off Tom Gorzelanny, and Cincinnati extended its home winning streak to nine games.
Ross drove in four runs overall, and rookie Jay Bruce had a double and a pair of walks as the Reds extended their best home winning streak since 1980.
Gorzelanny (4-5) retired only two of the eight batters he faced during the shortest of his 54 starts in the majors. He gave up four hits and two walks, and threw a wild pitch that set up a run.
Giants 11, Diamondbacks 3
At Phoenix, Ray Durham drove in four runs with a solo homer and a three-run single and San Francisco spoiled Doug Davis' Arizona homecoming.
Davis (2-2) was making his second start, first at home, since returning from surgery to remove his cancerous thyroid gland. He allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings, striking out five and walking three, one intentionally.
Jonathan Sanchez blanked Arizona for five innings before giving up two in the sixth as the Diamondbacks lost a series to an NL West opponent for the first time this season.
Nationals 6, Padres 4
At San Diego, Jesus Flores hit a grand slam off Shawn Estes (1-1) and Washington kept San Diego from assembling their first three-game winning streak this season.
Odalis Perez (2-4) was lifted after he allowed consecutive one-out doubles to Luke Carlin and pinch-hitter Tony Clark in the seventh that cut the Nationals' lead to 6-2. Scott Hairston greeted reliever Brian Sanches with a two-run home run.
Jon Rauch pitched the ninth for his 11th save in 13 chances.
Brewers 1, Braves 0
At Milwaukee, Rickie Weeks delivered a run-scoring triple in the eighth inning to make a winner of Milwaukee's Jeff Suppan, who baffled Atlanta over eight innings.
Braves starter Jo-Jo Reyes (2-3) had given up just two hits and retired 14 batters in a row before walking J.J. Hardy on four pitches leading off the eighth.
Blaine Boyer replaced Reyes, and Jason Kendall's sacrifice bunt gave the Brewers their first runner in scoring position. After pinch-hitter Joe Dillon struck out, Weeks hit his second triple of the season down the left-field line.
Cardinals 6, Astros 1
At St. Louis, Adam Wainwright shackled Houston for eight innings and Yadier Molina had two hits and two RBIs to help spoil Wandy Rodriguez's first start in more than a month.
Cesar Izturis added a two-run triple for the Cardinals, who are 7-3 in their last 10 games against the Astros.
Wainwright (5-2) matched his career high with eight strikeouts, allowed three hits and issued his only walk to Michael Bourn with two outs in the eighth.
Ty Wigginton homered into the third deck in left in the third for the Astros.
Rodriguez (1-1) made his first start since going on the 15-day disabled list on April 20 with a strained left groin and labored over 4 2-3 innings, allowing six runs, three earned, and six hits and walked four.
Mets 7, Marlins 6, 12 innings
At New York, Fernando Tatis delivered a two-run double in the bottom of the 12th as New York edged Florida.
The Mets made it 5-all in the ninth when Endy Chavez connected for the first pinch-hit home run of his career.
After Alfredo Amezaga homered with two outs in the 12th off reliever Duaner Sanchez (1-0), the Mets rallied. Tatis' one-out hit came against Justin Miller (1-2).
The NL East-leading Marlins lost despite hitting four home runs, including two by Cody Ross. Mike Rabelo also homered.
Jose Reyes and Luis Castillo also homered for the Mets as they beat Florida for the second straight night.
Cubs 2, Dodgers 1, 10 innings
At Chicago, Alfonso Soriano singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th and Chicago completed a three-game sweep.
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth, the Cubs tied it against Dodgers' closer Takashi Saito on Geovany Soto's bases-loaded sacrifice fly.
In the 10th, pinch-hitter Mike Fontenot doubled with one out off Park Chan-ho (1-1) and scored on Soriano's single to left. Bob Howry (1-2) pitched the top of the inning.
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