Braves' Jurrjens too much for Mets

Jair Jurrjens had himself a pretty streaky night.

Jurrjens was perfect in the first 2 innings against the host New York Mets on Friday. Then, he walked three consecutive batters with the bases loaded in the third. Then, he retired his final 10 batters.

"It boosts my confidence up, coming back from a big jam like that," the 22-year-old rookie said after helping the Atlanta Braves to a 6-3 victory.

Jurrjens (3-2) combined with four relievers on the first 2-hitter against the Mets since Florida's on May 26, 2006, and also got his first major-league hit ahead of Kelly Johnson's tiebreaking, two-run homer. Johnson had 4 RBI for the Braves, who sent the Mets to their fifth loss in six games following a five-game winning streak.

"I don't think it's a slump at all. Sometime you sputter as a group," Mets manager Willie Randolph said. "We've got to kind of pick each other up and find a way to put the total game together so we can get rolling a little bit. We will. We will get going."

Atlanta manager Bobby Cox was smoking -- but it had nothing to do with Shea Stadium's new ban that prohibits cigars and the like. With Jurrjens angry at plate umpire Tim McClelland over ball-strike calls in the third, Cox came out of the dugout and was ejected for the 136th time, extending his major-league record.

"They were close," Cox said. "He was around the plate, let's put it that way."

Atlanta was ahead 1-0 and the Mets had the bases loaded with two outs in the third when Jurrjens got ahead 0-2 in the count against David Wright. The next pitch appeared to be over the outside corner, but McClelland called it a ball.

When Jurrjens' 3-2 pitch was just outside and called a ball, the pitcher stretched his arms as if to say: "What's wrong with that?" McClelland then tossed Cox from the game.

"I'm sorry about what I did, showing him up," said Jurrjens, who planned to personally apologize to McClelland today. "I know I did something wrong, and I'm really sorry about it. I got caught in the game. It was emotion and just reacting."

Atlanta tied it on Johnson's sacrifice fly in the fourth and Jeff Francoeur's RBI double in the fifth -- a drive that bounced against the wall, ricocheted off left fielder Angel Pagan and hit off the fence a second time.

A 22-year-old rookie, Jurrjens had been 0-for-8 at the plate since coming up to the majors last August. He fouled off three straight 1-2 pitches with one out in the sixth, then singled up the middle off Mike Pelfrey (2-1) for the first hit by Braves pitchers in 40 at-bats this year. Johnson sent the next pitch over the right-field fence for his fourth homer this season and a 5-3 lead. Johnson added an RBI single in the seventh against Pedro Feliciano.

Diamondbacks 5, Padres 1: The Big Unit is back in the win column.

Randy Johnson got his first victory since having back surgery in August, leading visiting Arizona over San Diego. Johnson held the Padres' popgun offense to 1 run on 3 hits while striking out seven in 6 innings.

The last-place Padres lost for the ninth time in 10 games.

Johnson's last win came on June 10 against Boston. He made 1 more start before his 2007 ended because of a sore back that required a second surgery in less than a year.

The 44-year-old left-hander had a no-decision in his first start this season and lost to Randy Wolf and the Padres last weekend, 9-4 at Phoenix.

The NL West-leading Diamondbacks jumped on Wolf for 5 runs in the third inning, which was highlighted by Mark Reynolds' three-run homer to straightaway center. The Diamondbacks scored as many runs that inning as the Padres had in their previous 55 innings at Petco Park. Chris Young doubled in a run and Orlando Hudson had an RBI single that inning.

Reynolds has 7 homers and 22 RBI, both team highs.

Phillies 6, Pirates 5: Chris Coste had 3 hits and 3 RBI,, and Philadelphia's bullpen pitched more than 5 innings of effective relief in the visiting Phillies' win over Pittsburgh.

Jayson Werth hit his fourth home run in five games and had 2 RBI for Philadelphia, which has won five of six games.

Tom Gordon (2-2) pitched 1 inning of relief to pick up the win. Brad Lidge pitched a perfect ninth for his sixth save in six chances. He has pitched 11 innings without allowing a run.

Marlins 3, Brewers 0 (10): Hanley Ramirez raced home on a 10th-inning grounder to short with the infield in to score the game's first run and Florida went on to beat host beat Milwaukee.

With one out and the infield playing for a play at the plate, Wes Helms hit a ground ball to shortstop J.J. Hardy. Ramirez beat Hardy's one-hop throw to the plate to make it 1-0.

Cody Ross then added a sacrifice fly to center and Mike Rabelo had a run-scoring single off Guillermo Mota (1-1), who came on in the 10th.

Kevin Gregg (3-0) pitched the final 2 innings for Florida, which won for the first time since July 5 at San Diego when scoring 3 runs or less.

Giants 3, Reds 1: Jonathan Sanchez pitched into the ninth and matched his career high with 10 strikeouts, outdueling Cincinnati ace Aaron Harang and keeping Ken Griffey Jr. at 597 career home runs in host San Francisco's win over the Reds.

Sanchez (2-1) retired 16 straight during one stretch and won his second straight start after going winless in his first 3 outings of 2008.