NATIONAL LEAGUE Dunn's 3-run homer spills Cards

The Cubs' Greg Maddux blanked the Brewers.
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CINCINNATI -- Steve Kline made a mistake and it cost him.
Adam Dunn hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the eighth inning, the first home run by a left-handed hitter off Kline this season, and the Cincinnati Reds cooled off the St. Louis Cardinals with a 7-5 win Saturday.
"I just made a real bad pitch to the guy and he beat me," Kline said. "I was lucky he didn't hit it 17,000 rows deep."
Dunn's homer broke a 4-4 tie, and Barry Larkin and Wily Mo Pena also homered for the Reds, just 2-7 against St. Louis this season.
"I was just trying to put the ball in play," Dunn said. "I definitely was not trying to hit a home run -- but I'll take it."
St. Louis, which had overcome a 4-0 deficit to tie the game, had won 10 of its previous 11 games, including a three-game sweep of the Reds last week in St. Louis and the first two of this four-game series.
"We had to find a way to win one," said the Reds' Sean Casey. "But none of us has too much success against Kline."
Before the homer, left-handers were hitting .172 (10-for-58) against Kline.
"He throws in the 90s and he has the best left-handed slider in the game," Dunn said. "If he makes a mistake, you better hit it."
Graves saves
Todd Jones (8-2) allowed one run and three hits in 11/3 innings, and Danny Graves pitched the ninth for his major league-leading 34th save in 42 chances.
After Albert Pujols tied the score 4-all in the top of the eighth against Jones with his 24th homer, Julian Tavarez (2-3) couldn't hold the lead in the bottom half. Ryan Freel was hit by a pitch, Kline walked Larkin and Dunn followed with his 26th homer.
Pujols had an RBI single off Graves in the ninth.
Cincinnati starter Cory Lidle allowed three runs and six hits in 61/3 innings, while the Cardinals' Jason Marquis gave up four runs and nine hits in five innings.
Casey's RBI single put Cincinnati ahead in the third, a liner that went off Pujols' glove at first. Larkin homered in the fifth, and Pena added a two-run drive later in the inning for a 4-0 lead. He is 11-for-23 in his last six games with five homers and 10 RBIs.
ST. LOUISCINCINNATI
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St. Louis000000311--5
Cincinnati00103003x--7
E--Womack (9). DP--St. Louis 1. LOB--St. Louis 8, Cincinnati 10. 2B--Luna (4), Lankford (14), DJimenez (16). HR--Pujols (24), Larkin (5), Dunn (26), WPena (12). SB--Freel 2 (17). S--Cedeno, Freel.
IPHRERBBSO
St. Louis
Marquis594424
Eldred120001
King2-300000
Tavarez L,2-3 2-311110
Kline2-312210
Cincinnati
Lidle6 1-363325
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TJones W,8-21 1-331100
Graves S,34121100
HBP--by Tavarez (Freel), by Marquis (WPena). Umpires--Home, Larry Poncino; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Gerry Davis; Third, Bruce Dreckman. T--3:04. A--36,079.
Phillies 8, Mets 2
NEW YORK -- Jim Thome hit his major league-leading 30th homer and fell a triple short of the cycle, and Jimmy Rollins drove in two runs with a double in a three-run third inning.
Reliever Rheal Cormier pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth for the first-place Phillies, who have won two in a row after losing the series opener.
Randy Wolf (4-5) allowed one run and six hits in 51/3 innings to win for just the second time in 10 starts.
The Mets dropped back to .500 at 45-45, three games behind Philadelphia in the NL East.
Tom Glavine (7-8) allowed four runs -- two earned -- in 61/3 innings and has lost five straight starts for the first time in his career. He's winless in his last six since beating Kansas City on June 13.
Trailing 4-1 in the sixth, New York blew a prime opportunity after it loaded the bases with one out against Wolf.
Cliff Floyd hit a one-out double and moved to third on Ty Wigginton's single. Mike Cameron walked to load the bases, and Wolf went to a 2-0 count on Phillips. Phillies manager Larry Bowa then replaced Wolf with Cormier, who got Phillips to ground into an inning-ending double play and went on to pitch 12/3 perfect innings.
Mike Piazza, booed earlier in the game as his batting slump reached 0-for-16, homered on a 2-1 pitch from Tim Worrell into the camera stantion in center -- 435 feet away -- to lead off the eighth inning to make it 4-2. It was Piazza's 17th homer, but his first in 74 at-bats since June 22.
PHILANEW YORK
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Planco 2b4100Matsui ss5020
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Thome 1b5333Hidalgo rf3110
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ToPerz 3b5121Wggntn 3b4020
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Worrell p0000Valent ph1000
Utley ph1000TGlvin p2000
Madson p0000VWilsn c2000
Totals418127Totals362102
Philadelphia031000004--8
New York000100010--2
E--Matsui 2 (19), Wigginton (14). DP--Philadelphia 1. LOB--Philadelphia 10, New York 10. 2B--Rollins (21), Thome (21), Lieberthal (18), ToPerez (9), Floyd (13). HR--Thome (30), Piazza (17). SB--BAbreu (21). S--Wolf.
IPHRERBBSO
Philadelphia
Wolf W,4-55 1-361135
Cormier1 2-300000
Worrell121101
Madson120000
New York
TGlavine L,7-86 1-394213
Moreno1 2-300002
Parra134321
Umpires--Home, John Hirschbeck; First, Wally Bell; Second, Laz Diaz; Third, Bill Welke. T--3:15. A--35,425.
Cubs 5, Brewers 0
CHICAGO -- Greg Maddux must like July 17.
Maddux pitched a six-hitter for his first complete game in exactly one year and his first shutout in precisely three years, earning his 297th win.
Sammy Sosa hit his 556th homer and Moises Alou also homered for the Cubs.
Maddux (8-7) got his 35th shutout, his first since a six-hitter against Tampa Bay on July 17, 2001. The 38-year-old right-hander pitched his 104th complete game, his first since an eight-hitter against the New York Mets last year -- also on July 17. Maddux retired eight of his first nine batters and struck out the side in the eighth.
Ben Sheets (9-6), who entered with 16 scoreless innings and wins in three straight starts, gave up two runs and six hits in seven innings with eight strikeouts.
Sosa hit his 17th homer of the season in the first, a drive against a wind blowing in at 15 mph. Alou added his 20th in the fourth.
MILWAUKEECHICAGO
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Jenkins lf4010SSosa rf4121
Ovrbay 1b3020Alou lf3211
KGintr 3b3000CPttson cf4112
BHall ss3000DeLee 1b4000
Moeller c3000Macias 3b2010
Eriksn 2b3010Bako c3010
BShets p2000Mddux p3010
Kschnk ph1000
LVzcno p0000
Kinney p0000
Totals30060Totals30584
Milwaukee000000000--0
Chicago10010003x--5
E--KGinter (5). DP--Milwaukee 1, Chicago 3. LOB--Milwaukee 3, Chicago 4. HR--SSosa (17), Alou (20), CPatterson (11). SB--Macias (2). S--ROrdonez.
IPHRERBBSO
Milwaukee
BSheets L,9-6762218
LVizcaino2-323310
Kinney1-300000
Chicago
Maddux W,8-7960004
WP--LVizcaino 2. Umpires--Home, Sam Holbrook; First, Paul Nauert; Second, Randy Marsh; Third, Larry Vanover. T--2:05. A--40,033.
Padres 7, Astros 4
HOUSTON -- Phil Garner still is looking for his first win as manager of the Houston Astros.
Mark Loretta hit a two-run homer to spark a five-run fifth inning and David Wells won his third straight decision, leading the San Diego Padres over the reeling Astros.
Garner replaced Jimy Williams on Wednesday, the day after Houston hosted the All-Star game, and has lost his first two games with Houston.
The Astros (44-46) have dropped four straight and eight of 10, falling two games below .500 for the first time since they were 0-2 on April 6. They remain a season-high 12 games behind NL Central-leading St. Louis.
Wells (5-5) gave up three runs and seven hits in 51/3 innings, and Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his 24th save in 27 chances.
Roy Oswalt (8-8), who beat San Diego on July 7 for his fourth straight winning decision over the Padres, gave up seven runs and eight hits in 42/3 innings.
Sean Burroughs led off the game with a single, and scored when Loretta doubled on the fourth pitch of the game. Loretta scored on Terrence Long's sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead.
San Diego blew open the game with a five-run fifth. After Craig Biggio apparently lost Sean Burroughs' drive to left in the sun for an RBI double that bounced to the wall, Loretta hit a two-run homer. Consecutive singles by Brian Giles, Ryan Klesko and Terrence Long made it 6-0 and chased Oswalt, and Chad Harville entered and threw a run-scoring wild pitch.
SAN DIEGOHOUSTON
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Loretta 2b4223AEvrtt ss4120
BGiles rf3110Lamb ph1010
Klesko 1b4110CBeltrn cf5000
Long lf3012Brkmn rf4112
Payton cf3000JKent 2b4010
Qintero c3010Bgwell 1b4111
KGreen ss4100Ensbrg 3b3110
DWells p3000RChavz c3010
Neal p0000JVzcno ph1000
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Otsuka p0000Oswalt p1010
Bragg ph1000Hrvlle p0000
Hffman p0000Lane ph1001
Gallo p0000
OPlmro ph0000
Wthers p0000
Asmus c1000
Totals33786Totals374104
San Diego200050000--7
Houston000012010--4
DP--Houston 1. LOB--San Diego 4, Houston 8. 2B--Burroughs (13), Loretta (30), Ensberg (11). 3B--AEverett (2). HR--Loretta (9), Berkman (17), Bagwell (12). CS--Loretta (2). SF--Long.
IPHRERBBSO
San Diego
DWells W,5-55 1-373300
Neal1 1-310010
Linebrink1-300001
Otsuka111111
Hoffman S,24110001
Houston
Oswalt L,8-84 2-387713
Harville1-300010
Gallo200012
Weathers100012
Lidge100003
WP--Oswalt, Harville. Umpires--Home, Paul Schrieber; First, Adam Dowdy; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, Derryl Cousins. T--2:52. A--39,714.