Hernandez Easily Stops Giants, 4-1

Livan Hernandez pitched his league-leading sixth complete game and Jose Vidro and Brian Schneider homered Friday night to lead the Montreal Expos to a 4-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Montreal.

Hernandez (13-7), who was traded by San Francisco at the end of spring training, retired the last 19 batters in his fifth complete game in eight starts. It was his 29th career complete game. He gave up five hits, including Pedro Feliz’s run-scoring single in the second inning.

Vidro hit his 12th homer -- his first since July 12 -- off Jesse Foppert (8-9) in the first inning and Schneider homered in the seventh.

San Francisco Manager Felipe Alou, who managed the Expos from 1992 to 2001, was given a standing ovation by the crowd of 10,551 when he came out of the dugout to remove Foppert later in the seventh. It was Alou’s first appearance at Olympic Stadium since he was fired by former Expo owner Jeffrey Loria.

Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 4 -- Jim Thome and Ricky Ledee homered to lead the wild-card leading Phillies at Philadelphia.

Albert Pujols singled, doubled and tripled, extending his major league-leading hitting streak to 29 games, and Jim Edmonds hit his 30th homer for the Cardinals, who had won five of six.

Woody Williams (14-6) gave up five runs and 10 hits in five innings to lose his third decision in a row. After the Cardinals scored four runs to get within 5-4, Thome gave the Phillies a three-run lead with a two-out, two-run shot off Pedro Borbon in the sixth. It was his 31st homer.

Florida 10, San Diego 0 -- Brad Penny pitched seven shutout innings, and Mike Lowell and rookie Miguel Cabrera homered at Miami.

Penny (11-9) gave up five hits and struck out seven, and Lowell drove in three runs to help the Marlins remain a half-game behind Philadelphia in the wild-card race.

Lowell’s third RBI -- a sacrifice fly -- scored Juan Pierre in a four-run seventh inning. Lowell now has a career-best 101 RBIs. He had 100 in 2001.

Atlanta 10, Arizona 4 -- Vinny Castilla, Andruw Jones and Marcus Giles homered off Randy Johnson (3-5) at Atlanta and the Braves dropped the Diamondbacks three games behind Philadelphia in the wild-card race.

The Braves have 21 homers in their last nine games, pushing their league-leading total to 185.

Johnson’s earned-run average climbed to 5.08 after the Braves pounded him for nine hits and seven runs in five innings.

New York 5, Colorado 0 -- With the lights back on at Shea Stadium, Tom Glavine pitched six effective innings and the Mets got home runs from rookies Jose Reyes and Jason Phillips to win for the seventh time in 10 games.

After a blackout that affected much of the Northeast forced the postponement of Thursday night’s game against the Giants, the Mets, last in the East Division, rewarded 28,081 with a victory.

Glavine (8-11) gave up only three hits but walked four and pitched out of trouble all game, stranding eight runners.

Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 3 -- Brewer catcher Eddie Perez’s two-base throwing error set up a three-run sixth inning and Matt Stairs hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning to help the Pirates at Pittsburgh.