PHILADELPHIA 9, NY METS 3 ------------------------- FLUSHING, New York (Ticker) -- Paul Byrd continued to baffle his former team with 7 2/3 strong innings and Mike Lieberthal homered and drove in four runs as the Philadelphia Phillies ripped the New York Mets, 9-3. Byrd (6-2) allowed three runs and six hits, walking two and striking out five in winning his fourth straight start. He has beaten the Mets twice in the last seven days, allowing five runs over 14 innings. He is 4-0 lifetime versus the Mets, for whom he played from 1995-96. After Yorkis Perez allowed a hit and walk in relief of Byrd, Wayne Gomes struck out pinch-hitter Brian McRae to end the eighth inning. Jeff Brantley got the side in order in the ninth. Philadelphia improved to 11-1 in day games, including a 7-0 mark on the road. Mets starter Bobby Jones (3-3) was rocked again, allowing five runs and six hits over 2 2/3 innings. He is winless in six starts and has allowed 20 runs and 27 hits over his last 13 2/3 innings. New York catcher Mike Piazza went 0-for-4 and had his string of consecutive games with a homer snapped at four. The Mets had a chance to break on top in the first when recently activated Rickey Henderson walked and went to second on a wild pitch. But Byrd retired the next three batters to end the threat. ARIZONA 8, COLORADO 3 --------------------- DENVER (Ticker) -- Larry Walker finally ran into a pitcher he could not hit -- Omar Daal. Walker went 0-for-4, stopping his career-best hitting streak at 21 games, as Daal pitched an 11-hitter at Coors Field in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 8-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Daal (4-4) pitched the fourth complete game of his career in the major leagues' most difficult park for pitchers. He walked two and struck out two, throwing 81 of 126 pitches for strikes. The lefthander controlled Walker, inducing him into a 1-6-3 double play in the first inning and getting him on infield bouncers in the third, fifth and seventh. Walker held back nothing in expressing his disdain for Daal. Daal's effort was just the 25th complete game in the history of Coors Field and the second this season. Philadelphia's Curt Schilling went the distance on May 7. Jay Bell slugged his 14th homer, a three-run shot in the sixth inning that made it 7-3, as the Diamondbacks ended a three-game losing streak and denied Colorado its second three-game winning streak of the season. Bobby Jones (1-3) was tagged for six runs -- three earned -- and nine hits with three walks and five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. SAN FRANCISCO 3, HOUSTON 1 -------------------------- SAN FRANCISCO (Ticker) -- Chris Holt pitched well enough to get his first win of the season. Russ Ortiz was better. Ortiz allowed an unearned run and three hits over 6 2/3 innings for his fifth straight victory as the San Francisco Giants kept Holt winless with a 3-1 triumph over the the Houston Astros. Over his last six games, Ortiz (6-2) has surrendered 11 runs -- eight earned -- and 31 hits over 41 innings. He got a no-decision in his last outing, a 5-4 victory in Houston on Sunday. Ortiz allowed an RBI single to Craig Biggio in the third after Tim Bogar reached second with one out on third baseman Bill Mueller's throwing error. He struck out two and walked four. Holt (0-6) became the first six-game loser in the National League, giving up three runs -- two earned -- and six hits over six innings. Holt has dropped nine straight decisions since posting a 10-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Agust 21, 1997. He lost his last three decisions in 1997 before missing all of 1998 following shoulder surgery. PITTSBURGH 11, FLORIDA 4 ------------------------ MIAMI (Ticker) -- Jason Kendall and Jose Guillen each drove in three runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates used two big innings and snapped a season-high five-game losing streak with an 11-4 romp over the Florida Marlins. Kendall had a bases-loaded triple in Pittsburgh's six-run fifth inning and fell a home run shy of becoming the first Pirate to hit for the cycle since Gary Redus on August 25, 1989. Kendall has reached safely in 20 of his last 21 games and is hitting .434 (33-for-76) in May. Guillen had a two-run single in the fifth, in which all six runs were unearned after pitcher Todd Ritchie led off and reached when third baseman Dave Berg bobbled his grounder. Berg moved to third from shortstop in the third inning after Kevin Orie left with a left groin strain. Orie is expected to miss Sunday's game. Ritchie (3-3) pitched six innings, allowing two runs and five hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Dennis Springer (1-6) became the first pitcher in the National League with six losses. The knuckleballer allowed six unearned runs and four hits with three walks and a strikeouts in two innings in relief of starter Ryan Dempster. MONTREAL 12, MILWAUKEE 4 ------------------------ MONTREAL (Ticker) -- Vladimir Guerrero homered and tied a season high four RBI as the Montreal Expos thumped the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-4. Rondell White finished a single shy of the cycle and had two RBI for the Expos. They had nine extra-base hits, chased Brewers starter Scott Karl (5-2) during a four-run third inning and won for only the third time in their last 11 games. Guerrero also had four RBI in an Opening Day victory at Pittsburgh on April 5. In his last 10 games, he is 16-for-36 (.444) with five home runs and 14 RBI. Javier Vazquez (2-3) overcame a horrendus start for his first win since April 18, a span of six starts. He allowed four runs -- all in the first two innings -- and six hits over five-plus frames but retired nine of 10 batters from the third through the fifth. Anthony Telford yielded a hit and a walk over the final four innings for his first save since September 18 and third of his career. Montreal manager Felipe Alou celebrated his seventh anniversary with a win, improving to 548-523 since taking over the team on May 22, 1992. ATLANTA 4, CHICAGO CUBS 2 ------------------------- ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Kevin Millwood allowed one run over seven innings and triggered a four-run third with a leadoff single as the Atlanta Braves ended the Chicago Cubs' season-high five-game winning streak, 4-2. Millwood (4-3) scattered five hits with a walk and three strikeouts to win his second straight start. The third-year righthander has surrendered only six earned runs in his last five outings, spanning 33 2/3 innings (1.67 ERA). Rudy Seanez gave up one run in the eighth before John Rocker retired all four batters he faced for his sixth save in eight opportunities. In 31 1/3 career innings at Turner Field, Rocker has allowed only one earned run. The Cubs were held without a home run for the first time in 12 games. Millwood opened the fourth with a single against starter Kevin Tapani (3-2) and moved to third on Walt Weiss' single. Bret Boone's base hit gave the Braves a 1-0 lead. Chipper Jones followed with a double off the wall in right to score Weiss. Brian Jordan's sacrifice fly made it 3-0 and Javy Lopez capped the outburst with a run-scoring triple. Atlanta has won five of its last seven games and improved to 15-7 at Turner Field. Chicago had won all five games on its seven-game road trip. CINCINNATI 3, SAN DIEGO 0 ------------------------- SAN DIEGO (Ticker) -- Pete Harnisch is doing his best to erase some bad memories at Qualcomm Stadium. Harnisch tossed a three-hitter for his major league-leading second shutout and smacked his first career home run, a two-run shot in the seventh inning that gave the surging Cincinnati Reds a 3-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. Harnisch (4-4) allowed a single and two doubles with two walks and four strikeouts for his 10th career shutout and 20th career complete game. He also blanked St. Louis on six hits, 3-0, in his first start of the season on April 9. On Opening Day 1997, Harnisch surrendered three consecutive home runs for the New York Mets at San Diego, then sought counseling for depression brought on in part by his attempt to stop chewing tobacco. Since then, however, the veteran righthander has given up just one run and 10 hits in three starts at Qualcomm Stadium, spanning 24 innings. He allowed only three runners to reach second base and retired nine in a row before Quilvio Veras' two-out single in the eighth. Former Padre Greg Vaughn drove in the other run for Cincinnati, which has won six of its last seven games to move over .500 at 20-19. LOS ANGELES 10, ST LOUIS 7 -------------------------- LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Raul Mondesi hit his league-leading 16th homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers outslugged the St. Louis Cardinals, 10-7, despite another historic home run by Mark McGwire. Mondesi, who is just one long ball off the pace of major league-leader Jose Canseco, had an RBI triple in the fourth before capping the scoring with a solo shot in the eighth. He has homered in seven of his last 11 games. McGwire, who hit his first-ever Dodger Stadium homer in the first off Darren Dreifort, became only the third player to hit a ball out of the park in the eighth, pulling St. Louis within 9-7. He lifted a 2-0 offering from rookie reliever Jamie Arnold that sailed high above the seats in left center-field before bounding off the roof and into the parking lot. The shot was estimated at 484 feet and marked the first time a baseball left Chavez Ravine since Mike Piazza's blast on September 24, 1997 off Colorado's Frank Castillo. Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell accomplished the feat twice, including a 506-foot blast on August 5, 1969. Los Angeles closer Jeff Shaw, who surrendered a game-winning homer to Ray Lankford in St. Louis on Sunday, induced the left fielder to line out with two on in the ninth, recording his ninth save.  