NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Braves Win on Last Shot, 4-3

It came down to the last home run, Damon Berryhill’s.

Berryhill hit a pinch homer with one out in the ninth inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres Thursday night at Atlanta.

All the runs came on homers.

The Braves, who lost their previous two games after winning nine in a row, increased their NL West lead to 4 1/2 games over the Cincinnati Reds and 6 1/2 games over the Padres, whose six-game winning streak ended.

“I knew I hit the ball well, but it was so high,” Berryhill said. “I didn’t know if I had enough. I saw (Tony) Gwynn go back and stand there.

“I thought he had a good chance to catch it. I was just thinking, ‘Please go over the wall.’ ”

Berryhill’s eighth home was only the second given up by Larry Andersen (1-1) in 25 2/3 innings this season.

Terry Pendleton hit a three-run homer in the first inning off San Diego’s Andy Benes, who got a run back with a home run of his own in the third off Charlie Leibrandt. Pendleton has 15 runs batted in over his last 12 games.

The Padres tied it, 3-3, in the sixth on a two-run homer over by Fred McGriff, his league-leading 27th of the season. It was his second in two games and sixth in nine games.

Mark Davis (1-0) picked up the victory by getting Tony Fernandez on a grounder to end the game with Padres at second and third.

Houston 4, Chicago 3--Jimmy Jones pitched four-hit ball for eight innings and Eddie Taubensee’s two-run double highlighted a four-run seventh that lifted the Astros over the Cubs at Chicago.

The Astros are 7-10 on their 26-game trip.

Jones, who squeezed home a run in the seventh, gave up Andre Dawson’s 16th home run in the Cubs’ seventh and Ryne Sandberg’s 14th homer in the eighth.

Doug Jones gave up Dwight Smith’s RBI single in the ninth but got his 26th save.