Thursday National League Capsules.
MILWAUKEE Mark Teixeira took benefit of batting behind the hottest hitter in baseball.
Teixeira, slotted veracious after Chipper Jones, belted his home run and throng in four runs as the Atlanta Braves a scope with an 8-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Jones singled twofold to rise his batting regular to .420 and walked double to improvement his on-base calculation to .500 for the Braves, who snapped a -game road down line.
Teixeira hit a three-run home run as part of a five-run fifth inning. With one out, Kelly Johnson off Brewers appetizer Seth McClung (2-2) and was allowed to giveaway second without a shy and Jones at the registration. McClung then intentionally walked Jones before serving up Teixeiras blast on a 2-0 field.
Braves starting pitcher Jorge Campillo far ahead further a two-run lone in the inning, his first hit in nine business at-bats.
Campillo (2-0) was by the same token inspiring on the mound. The beginner righthander out six batters and allowed only four hits in five go. The lone run he gave up came on Russell Branyans home run in the .
Four Braves relievers combined for four scoreless score, including closer Rafael Soriano, who made his first presence since April 6. Soriano around a one-out walk to give up work the side in the ninth.
Teixeira got the Braves on the food in the inning with an RBI infield unmarried that electroplated Yunel Escobar, Atlantas first run in 19 1/3 score.
McClung, making his additional beginning of the time, allowed six runs on hits and six walks in just 4 2/3 shot for the Brewers, who had a -game winning streak .
SAN DIEGO 5, WASHINGTON 2
SAN DIEGO Jody Gerut launched a three-run homer down the fitting topic line in the nethermost of the eighth inning, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 5-2 victory over the Washington Nationals.
Edgar Gonzalez delivered a two-run separate for the Padres (21-34), who claimed just their fourth series win of the term.
With the game even at 2-2 in the lowest of the eighth, Washington left infielder Ryan Langerhans kept the contest tied, Kevin Kouzmanoff of a home run. Kouzmanoff blasted a terrain from Saul Rivera to deep left, and Langerhans timed his leap perfectly to make the obstacle.
But it was all for naught as Khalil Greene and Michael Barrett hit back-to-back off Rivera (3-3) before Charlie Manning came on to face Gerut, who crushed a 1-2 present just inside the foul pole in well.
Trevor Hoffman worked a spot-on to safe and sound his 11th save in his 900th line of business development.
The Nationals took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth on Elijah Dukes sacrifice fly, but Gonzalezs only to spot-on in the bottommost half gave the Padres a 2-1 edge.
San Diego the lead until the seventh, when Langerhans entered as a dash and hit a two-out, RBI distinct to suited, Dukes from third.
Heath Bell (2-3) pitched a scoreless eighth inning to grade the win.
NY METS 8, LOS ANGELES 4
FLUSHING, New York David Wright belted two home runs and lasting to dominate Brad Penny as the New York Mets posted an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Wright frayed a two-run homer to left in the inning and belted a further two-run shot to starboard-downtown in the fourth to give New York a 6-0 lead. The two-time All-Star is hitting .578 (11-for-19) era with four home runs against Penny, who fell to 5-13 in his occupation vs. the Mets and 1-10 at Shea Stadium.
Luis Castillo delivered an RBI twin for New York, which has won honest.
Blake DeWitt hit a two-run homer and last Met Jeff Kent other a solo shot for the Dodgers.
ST LOUIS 3, HOUSTON 2
ST. LOUIS Kyle Lohse threw six solid batting and Albert Pujols homered as the St. Louis Cardinals held off the Houston Astros, 3-2.
Lohse (5-2) allowed one run and five hits with one walk.
Chris Duncan had a two-run sole in the first and Pujols auxiliary a solo homer – his 13th of the time of year- in the sixth.
Carlos Lee homered for Houston.
PITTSBURGH 7, CINCINNATI 2
CINCINNATI Phil Dumatrait pitched seven owing round, the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
Dumatrait (2-2) yielded one run, two hits and two walks while striking out a vocation-high nine batters. It was the longest jaunt of the subsequent-year lefthanders career.
Jason Bay hit a two-run homer off Cincinnati meze Aaron Harang (2-7) during a -run fourth and Xavier Nady belted a solo shot and group in two for the Pirates.
Jerry Hairston Jr. went 2-for-4 and Brandon Phillips hit a solo homer for the Reds.
CHICAGO CUBS 8, COLORADO 4
CHICAGO Geovany Sotos sacrifice fly covered Ryan Theriot in the inning to snap a tie as the Chicago Cubs their fourth consecutive victory with an 8-4 pride over the Colorado Rockies.
Derrek Lee, who belted his 13th home run of the season in the third inning, tied the game at 4-4 in the , when his hit resulted in a throwing error by Colorado reliever Matt Herges that allowed Alfonso Soriano to grade.
Soriano then provided protection with a two-run solo that highlighted a three-run eighth inning for Chicago.
Pinch hitter Willy Taveras delivered a two-run single in the sixth inning and Ian Stewart finished a homer shy of the cycle for Colorado, which lost its fourth candid and seventh in its last nine games.
SAN FRANCISCO 4, ARIZONA 3
PHOENIX Randy Winn belted his another home run of the game in the ninth inning, snapping a tie and prominent the San Francisco Giants to a 4-3 joy over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Winn, who also swatted a solo shot in the fourth, led off the by depositing a 1-0 offering from Chad Qualls (0-5) over the left field wall, San Francisco a 4-3 edge. It also completed the fourth profession multi-homer effort by Winn, who last accomplished the feat against Arizona on September 30, 2005.
The veteran outfielders succeeding homer made a cert of Tyler Walker (3-3), who struck out two in a scoreless eighth inning. Brian Wilson a faultless ninth for his National League-primary 16th save for the Giants, who their -game sequence with the Diamondbacks and evened the spell set at four wins respectively.
Justin Upton his seventh homer and Randy Johnson tied Roger Clemens for next locality on the all-time strikeout list by notching his 4,672nd in the inning for the Diamondbacks, who have lost four in a row.
