NL: Record power display carries Mets

PHILADELPHIA - The Mets' brief losing streak is going, going, gone, and in record fashion.

David Wright hit a grand slam, Jose Reyes and Victor Diaz each homered twice and New York hit a team-record seven Tuesday night in a 16-4 rout of the Phillies.

Mike Piazza and Doug Mientkiewicz also homered and Wright and Diaz each went 2-for-4 with four RBIs for the Mets, who stopped a two-game skid. The seven homers were five shy of New York's season total going in.

Reyes got the rout going when he hit the fourth pitch of the game to left off returning Phillies starter Vicente Padilla. It was the first leadoff homer of Reyes' career.

Padilla, a former All-Star who hadn't pitched this season because of right triceps tendinitis, looked like he was throwing batting practice. Diaz hit a two-run shot in the second before the Mets bats really came alive in the third.

Padilla retired the first two before giving up a liner to Piazza that nearly landed in Ashburn Alley, the outfield entertainment area. Cliff Floyd followed with a broken-bat single, and Mientkiewicz hit a two-run shot.

Wright singled and Diaz followed with a two-run homer for the first multihomer game of his career.

DODGERS 8, BREWERS 6 (10): Milton Bradley hit a two-run homer in the 10th, and visiting Los Angeles rallied from a six-run deficit to win their seventh in a row.

Milwaukee scored six in the fourth after Dodgers starter Elmer Dessens left with muscle spasms in the back of his right shoulder.

Los Angeles closed within 6-5 in the seventh against Jorge De La Rosa on pinch-hitter Jason Phillips' run-scoring single, pinch-hitter Olmedo Saenz's run-scoring double and Cesar Izturis' two-run double.

Ricky Ledee singled off Mike Adams with one out in the ninth, advanced on Damian Miller's two-out passed ball and, after Saenz walked, scored on Izturis' single.

MARLINS 6, NATIONALS 3: Brian Moehler earned his first big-league win in 21/2 years, Carlos Delgado hit Florida's first homer in six games and the Marlins used a five-run third to sweep two at RFK Stadium.

PADRES 5, GIANTS 2: Brian Lawrence pitched eight strong innings and Geoff Blum and Ramon Hernandez each drove in two as host San Diego swept the two-game series.

ASTROS 5, BRAVES 3: Willy Taveras hit his first major-league home run, and former Devil Ray Brandon Backe got his first win of the season for host Houston.

CUBS 7, REDS 1: Corey Patterson started visiting Chicago's three-homer burst and made two catches against the wall that pulled Mark Prior through an ominous first.

CARDINALS 7, PIRATES 1: Matt Morris breezed in his first start since offseason shoulder surgery, holding host Pittsburgh to one run and four hits in six innings to help St. Louis to a two-game sweep.

ROCKIES 8, D'BACKS 1: The beat-up Colorado bullpen held up, getting the final four outs after Jeff Francis' nice start for the host Rockies.

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