NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Lonnie Smith Beats Braves With Homer in 11th

Lonnie Smith, the one-time Atlanta Brave, homered on an 0-and-2 pitch to lead off the 11th inning Monday at Atlanta and give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory.

Smith, who played for the Braves the previous five seasons before signing as a free agent this winter, hit his first home run of the season against Greg McMichael (0-1).

Smith entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning and walked, setting off the Pirates’ three-run rally that tied the score, 3-3.

“That was a nice scenario,” Pittsburgh Manager Jim Leyland said. “Lonnie Smith had done that to us a lot over the years.”

Blas Minor (3-0) picked up the victory with two scoreless innings of relief. Stan Belinda pitched the 11th for his fifth save.

Philadelphia 9, San Francisco 8--The Phillies overcame an 8-0 deficit and beat the Giants at Philadelphia when the winning run scored in the 10th inning on a wild pitch.

Juan Bell walked to start the Philadelphia 10th, then advanced to third on an infield single and a throwing error by shortstop Royce Clayton.

Gino Minutelli (0-1), San Francisco’s seventh pitcher, threw a wild pitch on the first pitch to Dave Hollins, scoring Bell to give the Phillies their fourth victory in a row.

The Giants took advantage of 11 walks and two errors to build their 8-0 advantage.

But the Phillies scored three in the sixth inning, four in the seventh and tied it, 8-8, in the eighth on Mickey Morandini’s triple and Jim Eisenreich’s single.

Larry Anderson (1-0) pitched one inning and gave up one hit to earn the victory.

Montreal 6, San Diego 4--Jimmy Jones matched his career-high with his fourth consecutive victory, allowing two runs in seven-plus innings at San Diego.

It was the ninth victory in 11 games for the Expos, who took control in the fourth inning when John Vander Wal delivered a two-run triple against Kerry Taylor (0-1), who was making his first start.

Chicago 6, Colorado 3--Steve Buechele drove in two runs with a sixth-inning double and Mike Harkey remained unbeaten, despite giving up 13 hits at Denver.

Harkey (3-0) allowed all three runs and walked one in six innings. Randy Myers worked the ninth for his sixth save.

David Nied (3-2) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings.

St. Louis 3, Houston 2--Ozzie Smith’s two-run single in the eighth inning lifted the Cardinals over the Astros at Houston.

With the Cardinals trailing by a run, Smith bounced a single up the middle to score Jose Oquendo and Bernard Gilkey to give the Cardinals the lead and knock out starter Doug Drabek (2-3).

Joe Magrane (1-3) went seven innings for the victory. Les Lancaster pitched the eighth inning and Lee Smith closed it out for his eighth save.

Cincinnati 3, Florida 0--Joe Oliver broke Charlie Hough’s knuckleball spell at Cincinnati with a run-scoring single in the seventh inning, sending the Reds over the Marlins.

Florida got only three hits against Jose Rijo (2-1), Steve Foster and Jeff Reardon, who pitched the ninth for his first save with the Reds.

The 45-year-old Hough (2-2) struck out nine and allowed four hits in 6 1/3 innings.