Cardinals End Six-Year Losing Streak to Glavine

The St. Louis Cardinals finally found a way to defeat Tom Glavine.

He lost to St. Louis for the first time in six years as the Cardinals rallied for three runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Braves, 4-2, at Atlanta on Friday night.

Glavine (4-2) had been 7-0 with a 2.82 earned-run average in eight starts against St. Louis since a 7-3 loss at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1995. He dropped to 14-5 against the Cardinals, who sent the slumping Braves to their fourth loss in five games.

“Even when things are going good, you don’t go out and assume you’re going to score a bunch of runs,” Glavine said. “I think we’re still convinced that we’re a better team offensively than we’ve shown and that we’ll be better than we’ve been.”

Glavine, who failed to hold a 1-0 lead, gave up four runs, eight hits and five walks in 6 2/3 innings. He leads the major leagues with 29 walks.

St. Louis tied the score in the sixth on J.D. Drew’s RBI double, then loaded the bases twice the next inning and surged ahead.

San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 2--Barry Bonds hit his 13th homer in 19 games to spark a three-run sixth at Philadelphia.

Livan Hernandez (2-4), who had lost his previous four decisions, gave up two runs and six hits in a season-high eight innings. Robb Nen pitched the ninth for his eighth save.

New York 4, Arizona 2--John Franco, voted the Mets’ captain before the game, pitched the ninth inning at New York for his first save and 421st of his career.

Timo Perez singled off Miguel Batista (0-1) to break a 2-2 tie in the seventh.

Colorado 9, Pittsburgh 3--Greg Norton’s second homer in two days finished off a four-run fifth inning at Pittsburgh and Todd Helton added a 443-foot homer and drove in three runs as the Rockies dealt the Pirates their fifth loss in six games.

San Diego 11, Cincinnati 5--Ryan Klesko and Bubba Trammell hit two-run homers in the first inning at Cincinnati and Wiki Gonzalez added a two-run shot in the eighth to lead the Padres. Klesko connected again in the ninth to give San Diego its first four-homer game of the season.

Houston 8, Montreal 4--Wade Miller (5-1) took a perfect game into the sixth, giving up three runs, four hits and four walks in seven innings at Montreal, and Craig Biggio got his 2,000th career hit to lead the Astros. Jeff Bagwell hit a three-run homer for Houston in the fifth.

Florida 9, Milwaukee 6--Cliff Floyd homered twice and Ryan Dempster (3-3) gave up three runs and seven hits in 7 2/3 innings at Miami to end his three-game losing streak.

For the Record

Baseball--The reproductions of Los Angeles Times sports sections presented by Kevin Malone at a news conference Thursday measured 30 inches by 38 inches. Because of an editing error, the size was incorrect Friday.