PHILADELPHIA (AP) —Roy Oswalt(notes) and two relievers combined on a one-hitter and NL East-leading Philadelphia beat Atlanta 1-0 on Wednesday night, the Phillies’ 10th straight win that increased their lead over the Braves to six games.
Raul Ibanez(notes) hit an RBI double with two outs in the eighth inning nfl jerseys
for the only run, helping the two-time NL champions reduce their magic number for clinching their fourth straight division title to four. It was the Phillies’ first home sweep over the Braves since 2001.
Oswalt allowed the hit - a clean double by Martin Prado(notes) in the fourth - and walked one in seven innings.
Atlanta began the day with a one-game lead over San Diego in the wild-card race.
Ryan Madson(notes) (6-2) pitched a perfect eighth for the win. Brad Lidge(notes) finished for his 26th save.
Jonny Venters(notes) (4-3) pitched the eighth and allowed the run on one hit.
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CHICAGO (AP) - Randy Wells(notes) pitched 7 2-3 innings and Kosuke Fukudome(notes) homered to lead Chicago.
Leading San Diego by a half-game in the NL West and Colorado by 2 1/2 coming in, the Giants were shut out for the fourth time in their last five losses. It was the eighth time in 11 games they scored two runs or fewer.
The Cubs have won seven of their last eight games, the lone loss 1-0 on Tuesday to the Giants on Buster Posey’s(notes) home run.
After Wells walked Travis Ishikawa(notes) and allowed a double to Cody Ross(notes) with two outs in the eighth, Cubs closer Carlos Marmol(notes) struck out Freddy Sanchez(notes) to end the inning. Marmol struck out the side in the ninth for his 34th save.
The Cubs have allowed 15 runs in their last 11 games, throwing four shutouts during that span.
Wells (8-13) scattered six hits and struck out six with one walk.
Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez(notes) (11-9) allowed two runs, one earned, in 5 2-3 innings.
Brewers 13, Reds 1=
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Craig Counsell(notes) homered during Milwaukee’s eight-run second inning and Corey Hart(notes) homered the next inning as the Brewers finished with 19 hits.
Cincinnati pitcher Aaron Harang(notes) hobbled off after being hit in the leg by a line drive and the NL Central-leading Reds had their magic number cut to three when Pittsburgh beat St. Louis 11-6.
Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto(notes) (12-6) had his shortest start of Chargers jersey
the season and Harang, normally a starter, was struck in the right ankle by Rickie Weeks’(notes) liner in the fourth inning. X-rays were negative and Harang had a bruise.
Randy Wolf(notes) (13-11) allowed a two-out walk, a single by Scott Rolen(notes) and Johnny Gomes’ RBI single in the first, but then settled down and retired the next 11 batters. Wolf gave up four hits over six innings and struck out seven.
Casey McGehee(notes) drove in four runs with two two-run doubles, giving him 99 RBIs.
Pirates 11, Cardinals 6=
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Charlie Morton(notes) pitched effectively over six innings to win for the first time in 4 1/2 months, Pedro Alvarez(notes) homered and drove in four runs and Pittsburgh extended St. Louis’ late-season collapse.
John Bowker(notes) homered among three hits as the Pirates won their fifth straight, their longest streak since an identical run in August 2009, and assured the Cardinals of their eighth consecutive series loss to a losing-record opponent. St. Louis has dropped 25 of 37 since it led the NL Central on Aug. 13, including the first two of this three-game series.
Any combination of losses by St. Louis or wins by first-place Cincinnati totaling three will eliminate St. Louis from a division race it led much of the season. Cincinnati lost 13-1 at Milwaukee on Wednesday night.
Morton (2-11), on the brink of having one of the worst seasons by any starter in Pirates’ history, hadn’t gotten a victory since beating the Cubs 4-2 on May 5 before winning his second in 15 starts.
Kyle Lohse(notes) (4-8) started for the Cardinals, who lost the fourth of their last five games in Pittsburgh.
Nationals 4, Astros 3=
WASHINGTON (AP) - Danny Espinosa(notes) hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning and a triple, and Michael Morse(notes) added a solo shot for Washington.
September call-up Espinosa’s fifth homer barely cleared the out-of-town scoreboard in right field off the second pitch from reliever Jeff Fulchino(notes) (2-1). Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez(notes) walked Justin Maxwell(notes) leading off the inning.
Espinosa scored Washington’s first run of the game after tripling in the third, coming home on Ian Desmond’s(notes) infield single. Morse’s 12th homer came on Rodriguez’s first pitch of the fourth.
Tyler Clippard(notes) (11-6) earned the win despite allowing two inherited runners to score in the seventh.
Marlins 7, Mets 5=
MIAMI (AP) - Wes Helms(notes) had two of his three RBIs in a five-run first inning and Dan Uggla(notes) drove in two runs for Florida.
Alex Sanabia(notes) (5-3) allowed three runs in five innings for the Marlins, who have won three straight.
Leo Nunez(notes) got the Marlins out of a jam in the eighth and Clay Hensley(notes) pitched the ninth for his fifth save.
Uggla had an RBI single in the bottom of Bears jersey
the eighth to make it 7-5.
Jonathon Niese(notes) (9-10) walked three, including Mike Stanton(notes) with the bases loaded, in the first inning. Helms followed Stanton’s walk with a two-run double and Brad Davis’(notes) RBI groundout made it 5-0. Uggla started the scoring with an RBI single.
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