NL: Braves keep Mets winless

ATLANTA - Brian Jordan's grand slam led the Braves to their fourth consecutive victory, 6-3, and extended the Mets' season-opening losing streak to five.

New York remains the majors' only winless team.

The Mets, swept by the Reds to open the season, hadn't lost their first four games since 1964 and are closing in on a franchise-worst 0-9 start, which came in their inaugural season in 1962.

Atlanta got four consecutive hits in the second, including Jordan's seventh grand slam. The leftfielder was hitting only .200 entering the game and had not driven in a run.

Horacio Ramirez shut down the Mets until the fifth, when Jose Reyes homered with one out. Kaz Matsui followed with a single and stolen base. He scored on Cliff Floyd's single that made it 4-2 and knocked Ramirez out of the game.

Kevin Gryboski recorded the final out of the fifth, and Adam Bernero pitched two scoreless innings to earn the win.

Chipper Jones' homer, a two-out shot to left-center in the fifth, gave the Braves a 5-2 lead.

PHILLIES 10, CARDINALS 4: Rookie Gavin Floyd pitched seven dominant innings, retiring 19 in a row at one point, and Pat Burrell went 4-for-5 with a three-run home run and five RBIs for visiting Philadelphia.

Floyd, 22, the fourth pick in 2001, went 2-0 last September after beginning the year at Double A. He gave up a run in the first on Larry Walker's double and Albert Pujols' single but did not allow another baserunner until Jim Edmonds' single in the seventh.

Up 4-1 in the fifth, Bobby Abreu homered, Jim Thome walked and Burrell singled off the wall in left-center as the Phillies chased Jeff Suppan.

Burrell also had a run-scoring double in the first and run-scoring infield single in the sixth, and his three-run homer in the eighth made it 10-1.

GIANTS 4, ROCKIES 2: Michael Tucker hit his first grand slam with two outs in the eighth for host San Francisco. Colorado's Jamey Wright gave up a first-inning single to J.T. Snow then did not allow another hit until Marquis Grissom' lead-off single in the seventh.

Wright took a three-hitter into the eighth but was removed after Omar Vizquel singled with one out. Brian Fuentes retired Snow, but Scott Dohmann gave up a single to Pedro Feliz and walked Edgardo Alfonzo to load the bases.

Tucker then hit Dohmann's first pitch over the rightfield wall into McCovey Cove, ending a 1-for-12 slump.

NATIONALS 3, MARLINS 2 (10): Jose Guillen's two-out homer won it for visiting Washington. Ryan Church and Vinny Castilla hit consecutive homers in the fifth for the Nationals, who got seven innings from Livan Hernandez.

Washington was two outs from winning in the ninth, but Carlos Delgado's first homer as a Marlin tied it at 2. Paul Lo Duca nearly won it for Florida two batters later, but his fly to left bounced off the top of the scoreboard and stayed in the park for a single. Chad Cordero got Chris Aguila to foul out to first to end the inning and stranded a runner at second in the 10th.

ASTROS 4, REDS 3: Pinch-hitter Jose Vizcaino's double in the ninth won it for host Houston.

Down 3-0, the Astros tied it with three runs in the sixth. Jeff Bagwell hit a leadoff homer, Houston's first home run of the season. And after Morgan Ensberg singled, Jason Lane connected for a two-run shot to tie it.

Then Willy Taveras led off the ninth with an infield single off Ryan Wagner. Vizcaino, hitting for Brad Lidge, doubled off the rightfield wall to score Taveras.

PADRES 11, PIRATES 3: Xavier Nady set career highs with four hits and four RBIs for host San Diego. Nady had a three-run homer, triple and two singles.

Down 3-2, Mark Loretta and Brian Giles walked to open the fifth for San Diego. Phil Nevin followed with a 403-foot homer to centerfield.

Nady hit a run-scoring triple and scored on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to make it 7-3. His homer in the eighth made it 11-3.

DODGERS 12, DIAMONDBACKS 10(11): The Dodgers held on as Arizona scored two in the bottom of the 11th before Jose Cruz hit into a game-ending double play. Jeff Kent's double with the bases loaded in the eleventh made Yancy Brazoban a winner after he had struck out Troy Glaus and Shawn Green with the bases loaded in the last of the tenth.

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