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From the day Joe Torre was introduced as manager of the Dodgers, he said they would go as far as their pitching would take them.

Will Venable hit his first career homer and the San Diego Padres beat Milwaukee 5-2 on Thursday night, handing the slumping Brewers their fourth straight loss.

Nick Hundley and Luis Rodriguez each drove in two runs for San Diego, which had lost nine straight on the road and is tied with Washington and Seattle for the fewest wins in the majors.

With all of the NL's playoff hopefuls taking the day off, maybe Milwaukee should have, too. The Brewers' wild-card lead was trimmed to four games over Philadelphia, and they fell five games behind NL Central-leading Chicago with 22 games left.

James Parr tossed six sharp innings in his major league debut and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 2-0 Thursday night.

Toronto's Joey Votto hit a solo homer and a tiebreaking, bases-loaded single in the eighth inning Thursday, completing the Cincinnati Reds' rally from a five-run deficit to an 8-6 victory over the Pittsburgh ...

Before the game even began, the Florida Marlins were guessing. How many fans would show to watch two teams far out of first place on a weekday afternoon game with sweltering humidity and the heat topping 90 ...

It took Scott McClain 19 seasons to hit a major league home run. When he got his first one Wednesday, he soaked it in.

Placido Polanco had three hits and drove in three runs to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 9-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.

Adam LaRoche snapped an 0-for-16 slump with a pair of RBI singles to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night.

Starter Oliver Perez benefited from the highest-scoring first inning by the Mets in more than a year by scattering two runs off five hits and five walks and working out of several jams until leaving in the ...

Nick Swisher and Alexi Ramirez homered to help the Chicago White Sox avert a sweep with a 4-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday.

Geoff Blum hit a two-run homer off Kerry Wood in the 11th inning to send the Houston Astros to their seventh straight victory, 9-7 over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.

The St. Louis Cardinals' Troy Glaus, top, is greeted at home plate by teammate Cesar Izturis, bottom, after Glaus hit a two-run home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the third inning on Tuesday, Sept.

The Washington Nationals lost by four and lost one last night. A streak snapped. An ankle bent. The old pattern of baseball from an earlier part of the summer -- when the injuries just about outnumbered the victories -- returned, uninvited, to Nationals Park.

A day that started with a seven-game winning streak ended with a 4-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, a reversion that halted Washington's hottest stretch of the year and perhaps ended the season for its starting catcher, Jesus Flores. As happened so often before this past week, the Nationals were hit on both ends, subdued by good pitching and jolted by an injury that will force a roster reshuffling.

Blue Jays' Shaun Marcum had a 6.19 earned-run average in seven starts before he was demoted to triple-A. Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston will have more lineup options over the final 26 regular-season ...

If the Phillies want to "Remember September" in their efforts to once again overtake the New York Mets for the National League East, then their first game of the month was easily one to forget.

John Baker knew he needed to come through, if the Florida Marlins were going to start September with a much-needed win.

Roy Oswalt allowed four hits and came within two outs of a complete-game shutout and the Houston Astros ran their winning streak to six games with a 3-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Monday.

Dustin Pedroia's two-run single capped a four-run sixth inning, Paul Byrd pitched seven efficient innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the struggling Baltimore Orioles 7-4 on Monday night.

Cleveland Indians' Cliff Lee pitches to the Chicago White Sox in the first inning in a baseball game, Monday, Sept.

Carlos Delgado's two-run home run off Eric Gagne in the eighth inning propelled the New York Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.

Milwaukee starter Ben Sheets pitched five scoreless innings but left the game due to tightness in his left groin. The extent of the injury was not immediately known.

Nelson Figueroa (3-3) pitched a scoreless seventh to earn the victory in relief of Johan Santana. Luis Ayala pitched the ninth for his fourth save in five chances.

Gagne (4-3) gave up three runs and four hits in the eighth. He has a 6.81 ERA this year after signing a $10 million, one-year contract with the Brewers.