PHILADELPHIA - Dontrelle Willis allowed an unearned run in 62/3 innings, leading the Florida Marlins to their 11th straight victory over the Phillies 3-1 Tuesday night.
Willis struck out in his first at-bat, snapping his streak of 10 hits dating to last season and including the playoffs.
But Florida's hitters gave him all the runs he'd need to stop the Phillies' four-game winning streak.
The defending Rookie of the Year gave up four hits, struck out three and walked none. He hasn't allowed an earned run in his three starts, spanning 191/3 innings.
Willis finished 0-for-3 after going 3-for-3 in each of his first two starts, including a home run last week.
Chad Fox pitched 11/3 scoreless innings, and Armando Benitez worked a perfect ninth for his seventh save in as many chances.
Benitez had three saves in Florida's three-game sweep over the Phillies on the season's first weekend.
The World Series champion Marlins have won 16 of their past 18 against the Phillies, who blew a half-game lead over Florida in the wild-card race with eight games left last season.
Vicente Padilla gave up three runs, two earned, and five hits in 61/3 innings for the Phillies.
Bonds near another HR mark
SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds homered in his seventh straight game, but the Giants lost 9-5 to the Padres.
Bonds (667) is one shy of matching the major-league record for consecutive games with a homer shared by Dale Long (1956), Don Mattingly (1987) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1993).
Bonds, third on the all-time list behind Hank Aaron's 755 and Babe Ruth's 714, had a pinch-hit walk Wednesday, which does not stop the streak under baseball's rules.
His ninth homer of the season, a two-run shot off the Padres' Brian Lawrence, landed in McCovey Cove on the bounce, and a fan dived over the railing and into the water to retrieve it. Bonds' homer pulled the Giants within 6-2. Pedro Feliz connected two batters later.
Brian Giles hit a two-run homer and Sean Burroughs had two doubles among his four hits and drove in two runs for San Diego.
ROCKIES 7, DODGERS 1: Vinny Castilla homered and drove in two, and fellow former Devil Ray Joe Kennedy pitched seven strong innings as host Colorado ended Los Angeles' five-game winning streak. Charles Johnson and Jeromy Burnitz hit back-to-back homers in the second as the Rockies won for the second time in five games. Royce Clayton added a two-run single for Colorado.
CARDINALS 5, ASTROS 3: Reggie Sanders homered in the third and snatched away a Jeff Bagwell shot at the rightfield wall in the fifth, leading St. Louis. Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer in the sixth and Jason Isringhausen closed it out, helping the Cardinals break a four-game losing streak at Houston.
REDS 3, BRAVES 2: Barry Larkin singled in two runs, his first RBIs since opening day, and host Cincinnati rallied. Sean Casey had three hits, including two doubles off John Thompson, and drove in a run, helping Jose Acevedo recover from one bad pitch early in the game.
CUBS 9, PIRATES 1: Alex Gonzalez homered, doubled and drove in four, and visiting Chicago beat up on Ryan Vogelsong for the second time in a week. Corey Patterson, Todd Walker and Michael Barrett also homered to back Carlos Zambrano as the Cubs won for the fifth time in seven games and ended Pittsburgh's three-game winning streak.
BREWERS 4, D'BACKS 2: Richie Sexson, traded to Arizona for six players in the offseason, watched his replacement at first base, Lyle Overbay, go 3-for-4 with two RBIs for host Milwaukee. Second baseman Junior Spivey, another acquisition, also went 3-for-4 and scored twice for the Brewers. The four everyday players acquired for Sexson went 8-for-16.
EXPOS 2, METS 1: Jose Vidro led off the eighth with a tiebreaking home run, and visiting Montreal got just enough offense to stop an eight-game losing streak. The Expos have 22 runs this season and are the first team to not score more than four in any of its first 14 games since the 1988 Rangers, according to the Elias Sport Bureau.
