ST. LOUIS—Bill Hall homered leading off the top of the 10th, helping Milwaukee beat St. Louis 6-3 on Monday night after squandering a ninth-inning lead.

Milwaukee is 4-0 on its seven-game trip and a National League-best 35-19 since May 20. The win moved the Brewers percentage points ahead of St. Louis for second place in the NL Central behind Chicago.

Solomon Torres (5-2), who gave up the tying run in the ninth, also pitched the 10th.

The Brewers scored two more runs in the 10th off Ryan Franklin (3-3) on a throwing error by second baseman Aaron Miles and an RBI single J.J. Hardy. Franklin allowed three runs—two earned—on four hits in 1 1-3 innings.

Hardy went 4-for-6, while Rickie Weeks provided the rest of the Brewers’ offense with a three-run home run.

Troy Glaus of the Cardinals drove in two runs with a first-inning double that extended his hitting streak to 10 games.



Braves 4, Marlins 0

MIAMI—Rookie Jorge Campillo pitched seven innings and two relievers completed a two-hitter for Atlanta.

Campillo (5-4) allowed both hits, walked one and lowered his ERA to 2.83.

Will Ohman and Mike Gonzalez each pitched one perfect inning. Mark Teixeira and Mark Kotsay both had two hits, drove in a run and scored once.

Chris Volstad (2-1) allowed three runs in six innings in his third major league appearance. The Marlins fell a game behind the idle NL East leaders, Philadelphia and New York.

The Braves had given up 23 runs and 31 hits in their past two games, both losses.

Campillo retired the first 12 batters before Josh Willingham walked to start the fifth. Mike Jacobs singled with one out, but Cody Ross hit into a double play.

Jeremy Hermida singled leading off the seventh for the Marlins’ other hit.



Padres 6, Reds 4

CINCINNATI—Kevin Kouzmanoff’s two-run double completed San Diego’s ninth-inning comeback off closer Francisco Cordero, and the Padres snapped their six-game losing streak.

Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 606th homer, a two-run shot that allowed Cincinnati to take a 4-3 lead into the ninth. Cordero (4-3) then gave up a lead for the second time in his last three appearances.

Brian Giles tied it with a run-scoring groundout, and Kouzmanoff lined a double to right for a 6-4 lead. Cordero retired only two of seven batters.

Clay Hensley (1-0) pitched two hitless innings for the win. Trevor Hoffman loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth but got three outs for his 18th save.

The Padres had been 0-53 when trailing after eight innings,

Griffey snapped a 2-all tie in the sixth with a two-run homer off Josh Banks, his 13th homer of the season that left him three behind Sammy Sosa for fifth place on the career list.