NL roundup: Ethier hits walkoff homer in Dodgers' win

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Andre Ethier hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth off Atlanta closer Rafael Soriano - his major league-leading fifth walkoff hit of the season - to give Los Angeles a 5-4 victory Thursday night.

Juan Pierre led off the ninth with an infield hit. Rafael Furcal's hit-and-run single sent Pierre to third, and Ethier drove a 2-0 pitch to right field for his 23rd homer. He raised his team-leading RBI total to 72 - five shy of his career best.

Soriano (1-3) had his third blown save in 19 attempts as the Dodgers recorded their 11th walkoff win and 29th come-from-behind victory to improve the best record in the majors to 67-42.

The victory went to rookie Scott Elbert (2-0), who pitched a hitless ninth.

Braves starter Derek Lowe allowed two runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings against his former team and left with a 3-2 lead. Chipper Jones made it 4-2 in the seventh with his 14th homer, the 422nd of his career.

Randy Wolf gave up four runs, nine hits and three walks over seven innings in his rematch with Lowe.

Phillies 3, Rockies 1

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Cliff Lee pitched seven impressive innings in his home debut and Paul Bako hit a tiebreaking homer for Philadelphia.

Lee (2-0) allowed one run and six hits, striking out nine in his first start at Citizens Bank Park since the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland last week. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner tossed a complete-game, four-hitter in a 5-1 win at San Francisco last Friday.

Jimmy Rollins had three hits and scored two runs, falling a homer short of the cycle. The NL East-leading Phillies took two of three from Colorado, in the thick of the wild-card chase.

Aaron Cook (10-4) allowed three runs and seven hits in five innings. The right-hander had won seven straight since losing June 1. Cook left the game with a strained right big toe. Nationals 12, Marlins 8

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ryan Zimmerman finished a double short of the cycle, and Ronnie Belliard's tiebreaking single in the eighth inning helped Washington rally from a six-run deficit.

The Nationals broke an 8-all tie with four runs in the eighth, completing a series sweep and winning their season-best fifth straight game. Jorge Sosa (1-0) got out of an eighth-inning jam and pitched the ninth to earn the win.

Washington also scored six runs in the eighth inning for a 6-4 victory on Tuesday.

Cristian Guzman started the go-ahead rally with a walk to lead off the eighth, and Nyjer Morgan sacrificed him to second before Belliard singled to center off Luis Ayala (1-4). Belliard followed with an RBI single to center for a 9-8 lead, and Washington scored three more times.

Diamondbacks 11, Pirates 6, 12 innings

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Alex Romero's two-run double highlighted Arizona's five-run 12th inning and the Diamondbacks won their fifth straight.

Romero's fourth hit was a double off Steven Jackson (2-2) with the bases loaded and one out in the 12th.

Pitcher Dan Haren followed with a sacrifice fly as a pinch-hitter, and Miguel Montero added an RBI single with Gerardo Parra scoring on a throwing error for the final run.

Mark Reynolds, Stephen Drew and Trent Oeltjen, making his major league debut, homered and Parra had four hits for Arizona, which trailed 6-3 after six innings but won for the seventh time in eight games. Arizona finished with 21 hits.

Delwyn Young, Ronny Cedeno and Lastings Milledge all had two hits and an RBI for the Pirates, who have lost five straight and 10 of 12.

Jon Rauch (2-0) worked out of a two-on, no-out jam in the 11th for the win. Romero went 4 for 7 with three RBIs and two runs, while Parra was 4 for 6.

Padres 8, Mets 3

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run homer in a four-run third inning and drove in three runs to lead San Diego.

Gonzalez's 29th home run and his sacrifice fly in the first helped San Diego take a 7-0 lead as the Padres beat the Mets for the 10th time in 13 games and for the sixth straight time at home.

Rookie Clayton Richard (1-0) had his first big league RBI and took a 7-0 lead into the sixth before control problems helped New York to a three-run inning.

Richard allowed three runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings.

Gonzalez had been withheld from the starting lineup the past two games to give him extra rest. His major league-best active games streak was snapped at 314 when he did not play Wednesday against Atlanta.

Livan Hernandez (7-6) allowed seven runs and eight hits in five innings as New York lost for the sixth time in eight games.