NL RESULTS
* at Chicago 6, Washington 4: Playing for the first time against the team for which he hit 46 homers and stole 41 bases last season, Alfonso Soriano tied the score with a two-out RBI double in the fourth inning and scored the go-ahead run on Cliff Floyd’s single.
* at Florida 5, San Diego 4: Josh Willingham and Joe Borchard hit consecutive home runs to start the bottom of the eighth inning. The back-to-back homers came off Scott Linebrink, who entered the game with a 4-3 lead. Willingham hit Linebrink’s first pitch. Borchard hit a 1-2 pitch.
* at St. Louis 3, Houston 2: Albert Pujols hit a go-ahead two-run double in the fifth inning, and the Cardinals ended a five-game losing streak. Pujols’ is 18 for 44 (.409) with two homers and eight RBIs during a 12-game hitting streak, raising his average to .284.
* Colorado 6, at Cincinnati 5 (11 innings): Rookie Troy Tulowitzki’s two-out single broke a 5-5 tie and gave the Rockies their first victory in Ohio since the 2004 season. Since the start of the 2002 season, they are 4-19 there, including 3-11 at Great American Ball Park.
* at Milwaukee 10, Pittsburgh 0: The top of the lineup did nearly all the damage: J.J. Hardy had four hits and three RBIs, Rickie Weeks had three hits and scored three runs, and Prince Fielder homered and drove in four runs.
* at San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 2: Pinch-hitter Eliezer Alfonzo hit a bases-clearing double in the seventh for the Giants’ first runs of the game.
* New York 5, at Arizona 3: The Mets won their 12th in a row at Chase Field, extending their club record for consecutive victories in a road ballpark.
* at Atlanta 4, Dodgers 0: John Smoltz beat the Dodgers for the first time since April 19, 1999.
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