National League
Marlins’ willis hurls 18th win to share Major League lead CHICAGO (AP) – Dontrelle Willis beat Greg Maddux to tie for the major league lead with his 18th win, driving in the tiebreaking run when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the Florida Marlins’ 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Saturday.
Willis (18-8) allowed one run and six hits in 7 1-3 innings, struck out six, walked one and hit one batter. He matched Chris Carpenter of St. Louis for the big league lead in victories and tied the Marlins’ season record, set by Carl Pavano last year. Florida moved within a half-game of Philadelphia, the NL wild-card leader.
Maddux (10-11) pitched a five-hitter for his second complete game of the season. He hit a batter with the bases loaded for just the third time in his career.
Giants 2, Mets 1
SAN FRANCISCO – Jason Schmidt (11-6) allowed one run and three hits in seven innings to win his third straight decision, outpitching Tom Glavine (10-11) and ending the Mets’ five-game winning streak.
Todd Linden had a run-scoring grounder and Mike Matheny hit an RBI double in a two-run second. Kaz Matsui had an RBI grounder in the fourth for New York, which had four hits and remained 11/2 games behind the Phillies.
After Victor Diaz’s two-out double in the ninth, the former Mets closer Armando Benitez walked Jose Offerman and retired pinch-hitter Chris Woodward on a flyout for his 250th save, his sixth this season and second since returning following surgery to reattach two torn hamstring tendons to the pelvis.
Diamondbacks 2, Phillies 0
PHOENIX – Alex Cintron hit a two-run, pinch homer and Brandon Webb (11-10) allowed three hits in seven innings to help Arizona stop a season-high six-game losing streak.
Jon Lieber (12-12) retired his first 14 batters and blanked the Diamondbacks on three hits through six innings. But in the seventh, Chad Tracy doubled with one out and Cintron lofted a two-out drive barely over the glove of leaping right fielder Bobby Abreu for his third pinch-hit homer of the season.
Lieber fell to 0-7 in his career against Arizona, including 0-5 in Phoenix. He allowed two runs and five hits in 7 1-3 innings.
Jose Valverde got five outs for his fifth save as Arizona won for the third time in 14 games.
Cardinals 6, Nationals 0
WASHINGTON – Jason Marquis (10-13) pitched a two-hitter for his first career shutout, ending a seven-start losing streak. Marquis struck out three and walked none.
St. Louis scored four runs in four innings off Matt White (0-1), who was called up from Triple-A New Orleans to make his first career start in the majors.
David Eckstein drove in one of those runs, then added a two-run homer in the seventh off Mike Stanton.
Washington remained 21/2 games out in the wild-card race.