Utley powers Phillies past Pirates

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Philadelphia’s Chase Utley(notes) fell a double shy of the cycle, powering the Phillies to a 10-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League on Friday.

The Phillies didn’t need another hitter against Charlie Morton(notes) (8-6) and the Pirates. Utley had a run-scoring triple in his first at-bat, a three-run homer in the second inning to make it 7-0, and he singled in the third.
Jimmy Rollins(notes) added a two-run homer in the seventh for a 10-0 lead. Ryan Howard(notes) had an RBI double and Raul Ibanez(notes) a run-scoring single in the first.
Philadelphia starter Roy Halladay(notes) (13-4) tossed seven shutout innings, striking out five and walking none.
The Phillies, who have the best record in baseball, later acquired All-Star outfielder Hunter Pence(notes) from Houston.
Braves 5, Marlins 0
In Atlanta, the hosts ended Florida’s five-game winning streak.
Dan Uggla(notes) hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh inning, extending his hitting streak to 20 games and leads the Braves with 19 homers. He has improved his meager batting averaged from .176 to .206 this month.
Brandon Beachy(notes) (4-2) went 7-1/3 scoreless innings.
Emilio Bonifacio’s(notes) 26-game hitting streak, the second-longest in Marlins history, came to an end. He struck out twice and was thrown out trying to bunt his way on base before hitting a groundout in the eighth.
Mets 8, Nationals 5
In Washington, Jose Reyes(notes) drove in two runs to help New York beat Washington.
Ronny Paulino(notes) finished with three hits, and David Wright(notes) and Jason Bay(notes) each had two as the Mets scored four times in the first inning en route to their fifth straight win. It was New York’s major-league leading 33rd road win.
Mets starter Dillon Gee(notes) (10-3) allowed four hits over 6 2-3 innings and hit an RBI single.
Nationals starter Chien-Ming Wang(notes) (0-1) made his first major league appearance two years to the day after he had shoulder surgery, and gave up six runs in four innings.
Brewers 4, Astros 0
In Milwaukee, Randy Wolf(notes) pitched seven scoreless innings to steer Milwaukee past a punchless Houston.
Astros starter Jordan Lyles(notes) (0-6) breezed through the first four innings, giving up only one hit and facing the minimum 12 batters. However immediately after Hunter Pence—who was traded to Philadelphia mid-game—was replace in right-field, Milwaukee’s Prince Fielder(notes) led off the bottom of the fifth with a double.
Casey McGehee(notes) and George Kottaras(notes) then got RBI singles, and Corey Hart(notes) added a two-run double in the seventh.
Wolf (7-8) won his first decision in over a month.