ST. LOUIS – Skip Schumaker singled to left to score pinch-runner Cesar Izturis in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-3 victory that snapped the Houston Astros’ six-game winning streak.

Schumaker singled off Wesley Wright, who relieved Dave Borkowski (0-1) after Borkowski walked leadoff batter Brian Barton to start the ninth. After Barton was forced by Adam Wainright, Brendan Ryan singled to chase Borkowski.

Wainright (3-1) struck out six and allowed five hits, including three homers. Lance Berkman hit two of them, his 22nd career multihomer game.

Houston jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first when Kaz Matsui hit his first home run of the season into the Cardinals bullpen off Wainright.

St. Louis took the lead in the third when Albert Pujols doubled to deep right-center field off Roy Oswalt, scoring Schumaker and Rick Ankiel. Pujols later scored on Troy Glaus’ sacrifice fly to right, giving the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.

Mets 4, Braves 3

NEW YORK – Carlos Beltran hit a two-run double in the Mets’ four-run third inning, and New York held on for a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

John Maine pitched five effective innings and David Wright snapped out of a slump with two hits for the Mets, who had lost five of six.

Atlanta dropped to 0-8 in one-run games and is the only team in the majors without a win in that situation.

The Braves played without Chipper Jones, who was a late scratch after feeling spasms in the middle of his back in the clubhouse before the game. Jones, a career .310 hitter at Shea Stadium, was leading the majors with a .433 batting average entering play Saturday.

Martin Prado replaced Jones at third base and did an admirable job. He had two hits and made a defensive play that possibly prevented a run from scoring.

Padres 8, D-backs 7

SAN DIEGO – Tadahito Iguchi hit a home run off Yusmeiro Petit with one out in the 13th inning to lift the San Diego Padres to an 8-7 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday and snap a five-game skid.

San Diego went extra innings for the third time in five home games, including a 22-inning loss to Colorado on April 17 that lasted 6 hours, 16 minutes. This one went 4:02.

Iguchi’s homer came on a full-count pitch from Petit (0-1). It was his first home run for the Padres and his first since Aug. 27 when he played for Philadelphia.

The home run was also San Diego’s first hit since the sixth inning as it won for just second time in 11 games.

Glendon Rusch (1-2) allowed two hits in four innings with four strikeouts and two walks.

The Padres had leads of 4-0 and 5-2 before Arizona scored twice in the fifth on a two-run triple by Orlando Hudson and added two more runs in the sixth, including an RBI double by pitcher Micah Owens, for a 6-5 lead.

Cubs 7, Nationals 0

WASHINGTON – Carlos Zambrano pitched five-hit ball over seven innings, Derrek Lee drove in three runs and the Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals 7-0 Saturday night.

Zambrano (4-1) walked four and struck out five to improve to 86-56 for his career and help the Cubs snap a two-game skid. Since entering Chicago’s rotation for good on July 1, 2002, his 45 road victories rank second in the major leagues behind Johan Santana’s 48.

The right-hander, who has pitched seven innings in each of his four victories this year, improved to 6-2 lifetime against the Nationals.

He had to work out of a jam in the seventh, striking out Ryan Zimmerman with runners on second and third before thrusting his right arm in the air.

Brewers 4, Marlins 3

MILWAUKEE – Prince Fielder hit a go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning and also had an RBI single to power the Milwaukee Brewers past the Florida Marlins 4-3 on Saturday night.

Fielder’s fourth home run of the season, a mammoth shot to dead center off reliever Renyel Pinto, broke a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the eighth. Pinto had not allowed a run in his previous 11 appearances.

It was Fielder’s second game-winning home run in four days. He also homered twice against Philadelphia on Wednesday, with the game-winning blast coming in the eighth inning of a 5-4 victory.

Phillies 8, Pirates 4

PITTSBURGH – Ryan Howard homered in his return to the starting lineup and Kyle Kendrick pitched into the eighth inning, helping the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-4 on Saturday night.

Chase Utley had two hits and scored twice and Geoff Jenkins added two hits and an RBI for the Phillies, who have won three straight and six of seven.

Nate McLouth hit his fourth home run of the season and Freddy Sanchez had two hits and an RBI for the Pirates, who have lost three in a row and nine of 11.

For the second straight game, Philadelphia jumped out to a 6-0 lead against Pittsburgh.

The Phillies scored five runs in the first and sent 10 batters to the plate against starter Matt Morris, who needed 49 pitches to get out of the inning.

Morris (0-4) retired the first two hitters he faced, but the next seven reached base safely.

Utley started things off with a single to right field and Howard followed with his fifth home run of the season to deep center to give Philadelphia a 2-0 lead.

Howard had been relegated to pinch-hitting duties the past two games as he works his way out of an offensive slump. He finished 1-for-4 with a walk and two strike outs, and is hitting .178 with 37 strike outs in 90 at-bats this season.

Eric Bruntlett added a run-scoring single in the first, and two errors by Pittsburgh led to the other two runs.

Philadelphia made it 6-0 in the second when Jenkins’ two-out single scored Utley, ending Morris’ night.

Morris pitched 1 2-3 innings and allowed six runs and six hits. He walked one hitter and struck out one, raising his ERA to 9.67 in five starts this season.

Kendrick (2-2) allowed four runs and seven hits before being removed after allowing McLouth’s home run and a single to Sanchez to lead off the eighth. He walked none and struck out two and won for the first time since his first start of the season April 4 against Cincinnati.

McLouth, who had a 19-game hitting streak stopped Tuesday, broke out of an 0-for-15 slump with an RBI single in the third. He finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs.

Notes: Howard’s homer was the first of his career against Pittsburgh. He’s now homered against every major league team he’s faced. … Utley went 2-for-4 with a walk and has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games. … Pittsburgh’s Xavier Nady doubled in the fourth and has now hit in 14 straight games.

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