Marlins 10, Phillies 5

Marlins 10, Phillies 5
By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- Two errors by center fielder Marlon Byrd led to a pair of unearned runs, and Josh Beckett allowed one run in six innings to help the Florida Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies for the seventh time in a row, 10-5 Saturday night.
Ivan Rodriguez and Miguel Cabrera each drove in three runs for the Marlins, who climbed six games above .500 for the first time since they finished the 1997 season 92-70. That team went on to win the World Series.
Florida is three games behind Philadelphia, the leader in the NL wild-card race. The Phillies stranded 10 runners, struck out 14 times and committed three errors, giving them 10 in the past four games.
Beckett (5-4) allowed seven hits but struck out nine and stranded six runners in scoring position. The right-hander is 3-1 with a 2.42 ERA in five games since returning July 1 from an elbow sprain that sent him to the disabled list for nearly two months.
Braden Looper, who entered in the eighth with the score 5-1 and the bases loaded, got five outs for his 18th save in 22 chances. He also singled in Florida's five-run eighth for his first major league hit in six career at-bats, then scored on a wild pitch.
Looper gave up a three-run homer to Jim Thome in the ninth.
Rodriguez and Derrek Lee each had three of Florida's 15 hits.
Brandon Duckworth (3-5) allowed four runs, two earned, in five innings and remained winless in 10 starts since May 17.
The Marlins took a 1-0 lead with an unearned run in the second. Juan Encarnacion singled, stole second, went to third on a single by Lee and continued home when Byrd bobbled the hit for an error.
That was only Byrd's second error this season, and he committed another in Florida's two-run fifth. After Juan Pierre reached on a bunt single and stole second, Byrd dropped Luis Castillo's routine fly, leaving runners at first and third. Rodriguez doubled them both home for a 4-1 lead.
Florida has outscored Philadelphia 44-22 while winning their past seven meetings. The Marlins lead this year's series 8-4 with seven games remaining.
Beckett needed 35 pitches to get through the second inning, but escaped without allowing a run. He gave up a single and a pair of two-out walks to load the bases before Duckworth hit a liner off Beckett's glove. Beckett retreated to retrieve the ball, wheeled and threw an underhanded one-hopper to first to retire the side.
Byrd hit his first major league triple to start the fifth, but again Beckett escaped. He struck out Placido Polanco and Thome, and when Bobby Abreu flied out, Beckett punched the air in triumph.
Philadelphia scored in the fourth on a two-out RBI double by Jimmy Rollins, batting eighth for the first time this year. Rollins hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Cabrera's two-out RBI single in the fourth put the Marlins ahead to stay, 2-1. Rodriguez and Mike Lowell singled home runs in the eighth, and Cabrera added a two-run single.
Notes: Beckett is 4-2 with a 2.08 ERA in seven games at home, compared with 1-2 and a 4.50 ERA in six games on the road. ... Abreu went 0-for-5, ending a nine-game hitting streak. He is 2-for-15 (.133) lifetime against Beckett. ... Shortstop Rollins dropped a popup trying to make a basket catch behind second base. ... Thome flied out to Pierre at the 434-foot sign in left-center in the seventh. ... Pierre had two hits and is batting .378 (17-for-45) against the Phillies this season.