AROUND THE HORN Monday's games
Diamondbacks 7, Marlins 1
PHOENIX -- Junior Spivey went 3-for-5 with his first home run of the year as Arizona won three games in a row for the first time this season. Spivey, batting .182 with three RBIs going into the game, drove in two with a first-inning homer off Justin Wayne (0-1) and scored twice. Rod Barajas, just off the disabled list, added two RBIs. Elmer Dessens (3-2) allowed one run on five hits, including two of Mike Lowell's three doubles, over seven innings. Both teams were coming off long Sundays at the ballpark, followed by cross-country flights. The Diamondbacks swept two from the Mets in New York, and Florida played the longest game in the franchise's history, a 7-6, 20-inning home loss to St. Louis that lasted six hours and seven minutes.
Phillies 3, Dodgers 0
LOS ANGELES -- Brett Myers (2-2) allowed six hits in 72/3 innings, and Jim Thome homered as Philadelphia opened a 10-game road trip. The win was the sixth in seven games for the Phillies, including their 1-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday when Kevin Millwood pitched a no-hitter. The loss snapped a season-high three-game winning streak for the Dodgers. Darren Dreifort (1-3) was the hard-luck loser, allowing six hits and two runs in seven innings while walking one and striking out 11 to match his career high. "Our starting pitcher pitched perhaps the finest game he's ever pitched in his major league career," Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. Dreifort missed half of the 2001 season and all of last year after undergoing reconstructive surgery on his pitching elbow -- his second such operation.
-- Associated Press
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