Guillen Gives Nationals a Victory

Paul Lo Duca just missed. Jose Guillen got just enough.

Guillen, the former Angel, hit a two-out home run in the top of the 10th inning to give the Washington Nationals a 3-2 victory over the Florida Marlins.

The Nationals were two outs away from winning in the ninth, but Carlos Delgado’s first home run in a Marlin uniform tied the score at 2-2.

Lo Duca nearly won it for Florida two batters later, but his drive to left bounced off the top of the scoreboard and stayed in the park.

Guillen sent a fastball from Antonio Alfonseca (0-1) over the center-field wall for his second homer of the season -- lifting Washington to its third win in five games.

Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 4 -- Rookie Gavin Floyd pitched seven dominant innings at St. Louis, retiring 19 consecutive batters and giving the Phillies’ beleaguered bullpen a break.

Philadelphia relievers had blown three consecutive late-inning leads and entered the game 0-3 with an 8.76 earned-run average and an opponents’ batting average of .377.

Pat Burrell had four hits, including a three-run home run, and drove in five runs for the Phillies.

San Francisco 4, Colorado 2 -- Michael Tucker hit his first career grand slam with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Giants over the visiting Rockies. The homer decided a pitching duel between Colorado’s Jamey Wright and San Francisco’s Jerome Williams.

Wright gave up a first-inning single to J.T. Snow and then did not yield another hit until Marquis Grissom singled to open the seventh inning. Wright took a three-hitter into the eighth.

Chicago 4, Milwaukee 0 -- Carlos Zambrano pitched one-hit ball into the eighth inning at Wrigley Field and had two singles and an RBI to help the Cubs hand the Brewers their first loss of the season.

Zambrano (1-0) gave up only a two-out line single in the second inning to Russell Branyan. After Branyan’s single, Zambrano retired 10 in a row before walking J.J. Hardy to start the seventh.

Atlanta 6, New York 3 -- At Atlanta, Brian Jordan hit a grand slam to lead the Braves to their fourth win in a row and extend the Mets’ season-opening losing streak to five games. Chipper Jones also homered to help keep the Mets the only winless team in the majors.

Houston 4, Cincinnati 3 -- Pinch-hitter Jose Vizcaino failed to lay down a bunt, but he redeemed himself by hitting a long drive off the right-field wall at Houston. The run-scoring double with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning completed the Astros’ rally from a three-run deficit.

San Diego 11, Pittsburgh 3 -- Xavier Nady had four hits and a career-high four RBIs to lead the Padres at San Diego. Nady had a three-run homer, a triple and two singles for his first career four-hit game. The Padres trailed, 3-2, before taking the lead for good on Phil Nevin’s three-run homer in the fifth inning.