Phillies pick up club-best 10th straight triumph

PHILADELPHIA – Jayson Werth hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 13th inning to send the Philadelphia Phillies to their 10th straight victory, 4-1 ,over the Chicago Cubs in the National League on Tuesday.

The NL East-leading Phillies are on their longest winning streak in 18 years. They won 13 straight from July 30 to Aug. 12, 1991.

Jimmy Rollins homered and the Phillies got another strong outing from Joe Blanton, who allowed one run in seven innings. Four relievers threw six hitless innings. Clay Condrey (6-2) tossed a perfect inning to earn the win.

Jeff Samardzija (0-1) retired the first two batters he faced before walking Ryan Howard and Raul Ibanez. Werth hit his 21st homer.

Chicago’s Rich Harden gave up one run and four hits, striking out six in seven innings.

Kosuke Fukudome’s RBI double in the fourth tied it at 1.

At Los Angeles, Rafael Furcal hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs, and Matt Kemp added a two-run shot as Los Angeles got its 11th consecutive home victory over Cincinnati, 12-3.

Manny Ramirez was hit on the side of his left hand by a pitch from Homer Bailey leading off the third inning. He went to a hospital for precautionary X-rays, which were negative. He is listed as day to day.

The NL West-leading Dodgers (60-34) won their fourth straight and are 26 games over .500 for the first time since 1991.

Randy Wolf (5-4) gave up four hits and two runs in 7 1-3 innings and had two hits, including an RBI double.

Ramirez had a two-run triple in the first that made it 2-0.

At San Diego, Chris Volstad pitched seven strong innings to lead Florida past San Diego, 3-2.   

 The Padres had only five singles until rookie Kyle Blanks hit Leo Nunez’s first pitch of the ninth inning for his first major league homer.

Hanley Ramirez had three of Florida’s 12 hits.

The Padres, who have the second-worst record in the NL, dropped to 12-32 since June 1, the worst in the majors in that stretch.             (AP)