Brewers blank Cincinnati; Griffey injures hamstring

The Marlins defeated the Mets and the Rockies won over the Padres.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE -- Ben Sheets threw eight shutout innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-0 victory Saturday night over the Cincinnati Reds, who lost Ken Griffey Jr. to a strained right hamstring.
Griffey was injured while running down a flyball in the fourth inning. The Reds said the All-Star outfielder will return to Cincinnati today to have an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.
Sheets (9-5), headed to his second All-Star game, allowed five hits -- all singles -- and struck out eight and walked one to win his third consecutive start. He lowered his NL-leading ERA to 2.26.
Luis Vizcaino pitched a perfect ninth to complete the shutout, Milwaukee's sixth.
In the fourth, Brady Clark hit a one-out triple off Cory Lidle (6-7), and Griffey was injured trying to make the play.
Griffey, 20th on the career home runs list with 501, chased down Clark's hit into the right-center field gap. As Griffey neared the warning track in a full sprint, the ball bounced off his glove and ended up as a triple.
Griffey appeared to hurt his leg as he landed on it, but continued to track down the ball and walked off the field immediately after the play with no apparent limp.
Griffey, voted an All-Star starter for the 12th time last weekend, missed more than a month with a torn hamstring that bothered him throughout the 2001 season. He spent two long stints on the 15-day disabled list with a torn patella tendon and a torn right hamstring in 2002, then went to the DL twice again last year for a dislocated right shoulder and torn ankle tendon.
CINCINNATIMILWAUKEE
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Larkin ss4010Cunsell ss4010
Grf Jr. cf2000Jenkins lf4001
Hmmel 1b2000Ovrbay 1b3210
Dunn 1b4020KGintr 3b4110
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WPena rf4000BHall 2b2011
Vlentin c2000Moeller c3001
Larson 3b3010BShets p3010
Lidle p2000LVzcno p0000
CMiller ph1000
PNortn p0000
Poppel p0000
Totals32050Totals30574
Cincinnati000000000--0
Milwaukee01110101x--5
E--Valentin (4). DP--Cincinnati 1. LOB--Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 6. 2B--KGinter (13), BClark (4), BHall (7). 3B--BClark (1). SB--Podsednik (34), Overbay (2), KGinter (5), BHall (4).
IPHRERBBSO
Cincinnati
Lidle L,6-7654445
PNorton111110
Van Poppel110002
Milwaukee
BSheets W,9-5850018
LVizcaino100000
PNorton pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. PB--Valentin.
Umpires--Home, Andy Fletcher; First, Kevin Kelley; Second, Gary Cederstrom; Third, Jim Reynolds. T--2:40. A--43,558.
Marlins 5, Mets 2
MIAMI -- Mike Lowell hit a two-run homer and Ben Howard pitched out of a seventh-inning jam to help Florida.
Florida won for only the third time in 10 games, beating Tom Glavine (7-7). He allowed four runs in six innings, and his career record at Pro Player Stadium fell to 6-12 with an ERA of 4.40.
Brad Penny (8-7) shut out New York for six innings but ran into trouble in the seventh. Howard retired Cliff Floyd and Richard Hidalgo with the bases loaded to end the threat and preserve a 4-2 lead.
NEW YORKFLORIDA
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Reyes 2b5031Pierre cf4110
Matsui ss4000LCstillo 2b3010
Piazza 1b3010Cbrera rf3111
Floyd lf4010Lowell 3b3132
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Hidalgo rf4010Benitez p0000
Wggntn 3b4010Choi 1b4120
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TGlvin p2000Perisho p0000
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Zeile ph0000Nunez lf1000
VWilsn c1000
Totals34292Totals335115
New York000000200--2
Florida30000101x--5
E--Cameron (4). DP--New York 1. LOB--New York 10, Florida 8. 2B--Cameron (16), Spencer (9), AGonzalez (20). HR--Lowell (20), AGonzalez (12). SB--Reyes 2 (3), Wigginton (4). CS--Wigginton (1). S--Matsui, LCastillo.
IPHRERBBSO
New York
TGlavine L,7-7694423
Parra221113
Florida
Penny W,8-7672225
Perisho010010
BHoward100011
Benitez S,29210004
Penny pitched to 2 batters in the 7th, Perisho pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. WP--Perisho. Umpires--Home, Dana DeMuth; First, Jim Joyce; Second, Kerwin Danley; Third, Marvin Hudson. T--2:59. A--41,212.
Rockies 6, Padres 2
SAN DIEGO -- Aaron Cook took a shutout into the seventh inning and Jeromy Burnitz and Todd Greene each hit solo homers in the Rockies' third straight victory.
Cook (4-3) allowed one run on eight hits with three strikeouts and three walks, and pitched out of trouble all day -- leaving 10 baserunners stranded in six-plus innings.
Left fielder Matt Holliday helped Cook in the sixth inning when he made a running catch over his head on Sean Burroughs' fly ball with two outs and runners at second and third.
Brian Lawrence (10-6) lasted only four innings for the Padres, who have lost four in a row.
After Aaron Miles gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead with an RBI double in the second, Burnitz hit a two-out homer off Lawrence in the third. One inning later, Greene homered to make it 3-0.
Holliday added an RBI single in the fifth that put Colorado ahead 4-0.
COLORADOSAN DIEGO
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Hlliday lf3011Nady lf5021
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Colorado011110002--6
San Diego000000101--2
E--Beck (1). LOB--Colorado 9, San Diego 14. 2B--Miles (9), Helton (27), Castilla (28), Loretta (28), Nady 2 (3), Cirillo (2). HR--Burnitz (18), TGreene (5). SB--Miles (5), Helton (3). S--Holliday, Cook.
IPHRERBBSO
Colorado
Cook W,4-3681133
Fassero2-310000
SReed1 1-310012
JrLopez2-301110
Dohmann1-310000
San Diego
Lawrence L,10-6463322
Stone221101
Witasick210003
Beck122102
Cook pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP--by Stone (PrWilson). WP--JrLopez. Balk--Cook. Umpires--Home, Bill Hohn; First, Gary Darling; Second, Mark Carlson; Third, Ramon Armendariz. T--3:11. A--37,644.