MIAMI – Juan Pierre drove in four runs, Ramon Castro broke out of a season-long slump with three RBIs and the Florida Marlins beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-5 Monday.

The victory was Jack McKeon’s 100th as Marlins manager and it pulled Florida into a tie with Philadelphia atop the NL East.

Jeff Conine homered and Carl Pavano earned the win for the Marlins, who took three of four from Arizona.

Steve Finley hit his major league-leading 14th homer for the Diamondbacks.

Pavano (4-2) allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings, taking advantage of some rare run support. He entered with the eighth-lowest run support (3.49 runs per game) among NL starters, and the Marlins failed to score more than three runs in any of his previous four starts.

Brandon Webb (2-4), who pitched seven shutout innings against Atlanta in his last start, allowed seven runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. Webb struggled with his control, walking five and throwing 53 balls and 53 strikes.

Scott Hairston homered for his first major league hit to get Arizona on the board in the fifth inning. Hairston, a late replacement for injured second baseman Matt Kata, was making his second major league start and was 0-for-6 before he hit a 3-2 pitch into the left-field stands.

Finley added a two-run shot in the seventh, his 13th homer in 25 games.

Conine hit his second home run in two days in the sixth. Conine and Hee Seop Choi, who walked in all four of his plate appearances, each scored three times.

Reds 7, Astros 5

CINCINNATI – Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 491st homer, and Austin Kearns had a tiebreaking, three-run shot in the eighth, powering the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 victory Monday night and a rare four-game sweep of the Houston Astros.

Griffey hit his second homer in two games, a solo shot that tied him with Fred McGriff for 21st place on the career list. He also had a two-run double off Tim Redding that smacked off the left-field wall, a few feet short of another homer.

Kearns’ homer off Brad Lidge (0-3) pushed Cincinnati a half-game ahead of the Cubs for the NL Central lead.

Cincinnati has won six in a row – its best spurt since 2002 – to grab sole possession of first place for the first time since April 15. The Reds have won nine of 10 overall.

The Astros hadn’t been swept in a four game series since June 24-27, 1999, when the Reds did it in the Astrodome. Houston has lost a season-high five in a row.

Sean Casey also homered for the second straight game and had a pair of hits, raising the NL’s top batting average to .385.

John Riedling (3-0) got the win despite giving up Lance Berkman’s tying, two-run homer in the seventh. Danny Graves got three outs for his major league-leading 21st save in 25 chances.

Pinch-hitter Jason Lane singled and scored on a passed ball to make it 7-5, but Graves retired Jeff Bagwell and Berkman with a runner at third to end it.

Braves 5, Expos 0

MONTREAL – Andruw Jones homered twice and John Thomson pitched the Atlanta Braves to a 5-0 win over the punchless Montreal Expos on Monday night.

J.D. Drew also connected for Atlanta, which has won four of five following a three-game losing streak to move within one game of .500.

Playing before only 4,675 fans, Montreal lost its fifth straight one day after the final game of its three-game series against San Francisco in Puerto Rico was rained out.

The Expos, an NL-worst 14-30, have been shut out eight times in 44 games.

Jones hit a two-run shot in the second inning off Zach Day (3-5) and his 10th homer of the season leading off the seventh for Atlanta’s first multihomer game this year.

Thomson (3-2) scattered eight hits through seven innings. He struck out three and walked none.

Chris Reitsma and Antonio Alfonseca finished the 11-hitter, Atlanta’s third shutout of the season.

Day, originally scheduled to start Sunday, allowed seven hits – including each of Atlanta’s three homers – and five runs in seven innings.

Blue Jays 6, Angels 5

TORONTO – Chris Gomez scored the winning run in the 10th inning when nobody covered the plate during a rundown, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Anaheim Angels 6-5 Monday night.

Gomez reached on a fielder’s choice and Ben Weber (0-2) walked Eric Hinske before Simon Pond hit a sharp grounder to first baseman Casey Kotchman, who knocked the ball down with a dive.

Second baseman Adam Kennedy picked up the ball and threw to catcher Bengie Molina, who got Gomez in a rundown between third and home. Molina chased Gomez up the line before throwing to Alfredo Amezaga, who didn’t have anybody to throw to at the plate.

Gomez slid across with the winning run, and Pond was credited with an RBI single.

Jason Frasor (2-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win, helping the Blue Jays end a four-game skid.

Vladimir Guerrero, Jose Guillen and Jeff DaVanon hit consecutive homers in the third for the Angels.

, who still have the best record in the majors (29-16).

Anaheim starter John Lackey and manager Mike Scioscia were ejected in the sixth inning after Lackey brushed back Pond, then threw a pitch that grazed his jersey.

Both benches had already been warned, so plate umpire Jim Reynolds immediately ejected Lackey. Scioscia then got into a heated argument with Reynolds.

Toronto starter Justin Miller tied a club record by hitting three batters, including Guillen in the top of the sixth.

Guillen glared at Miller and took a few steps toward the mound, but the benches never emptied.

Miller allowed five straight hits in the third, including the three consecutive homers.

Guerrero homered off SkyDome’s Windows restaurant before Guillen sent a drive over the center-field wall. DaVanon followed with a homer to right, giving Anaheim a 4-2 lead.

Guerrero added an RBI single in the fourth, but the Blue Jays cut it to 5-4 when Reed Johnson and Frank Menechino hit consecutive RBI doubles off Lackey in the bottom half.

Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado left after the third inning with a jammed right knee. Delgado, who has a history of knee problems, was called out at second base on a fielder’s choice in the third. Dave Berg replaced him at first to start the fourth.

Kotchman struck out for the first time in 48 career plate appearances, a club record. His streak was the longest in the majors since Bob Bailor began his career by going 51 plate appearances without striking out from 1975-77 with Baltimore and Toronto.

Notes: Troy Glaus, Darin Erstad and Garret Anderson were the last Angels to hit three consecutive homers on July 26, 2001, against Tampa Bay. … David Wells and Chris Michalak also hit three batters in a game for the Blue Jays. .. Hinske robbed DaVanon of a hit with a leaping grab at third base in the ninth, then threw to first to complete a double play. … The Angels didn’t get to their hotel until 9 a.m. Monday after they were forced to land in Detroit because of fog in the Toronto area.

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