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MIAMI -Sean Burroughs hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning Saturday night to lead the San Diego Padres over the Florida Marlins 6-3.

With the score 3-all, Miguel Ojeda opened the 10th with a broken-bat single to left, and Franklyn Gracesqui (0-1) hit Khalil Greene was hit by a pitch. Kerry Robinson’s bunt single loaded the bases, and Burroughs singled for a 4-3 lead.

Mark Loretta followed with another RBI single, and another run scored when left fielder Jeff Conine bobbled the ball.

Akinori Otsuka (3-1) pitched one scoreless inning, and Trevor Hoffman threw a perfect 10th for his ninth save in 10 chances.

San Diego, which had 17 hits, won for the ninth time in 12 games. Florida, which had won eight of its previous nine games against the Padres, dropped to 1-4 in extra innings this season.

The Padres’ Jay Payton reached base five times, going 3-for-4 with two doubles, two walks and a single. Sean Burroughs also had three hits.

Padres starter Ismael Valdez allowed three runs and five hits in five-plus innings, while Florida’s Darren Oliver gave up three runs and nine hits in five innings.

San Diego went ahead in the second when, with runners at the corners at no outs, Ojeda lined a ball to center that appeared to be caught by an onrushing Juan Pierre. Umpires ruled it a trap and Ojeda got an RBI single, but he was called out for passing teammate Terrence Long after rounding first.

Conine’s RBI double tied the score in the bottom half, but Greene put San Diego back ahead in the fourth with a bases-loaded infield single.

Miguel Cabrera, who went 3-for-3, hit his 10th homer in the bottom half, a solo shot that tied the score 2-all and matched Barry Bonds, Jim Thome and Adam Dunn for the NL lead.

Phil Nevin, in a 3-for-30 slide before his fourth-inning single, hit a two-out, RBI double in the fifth that gave San Diego a 3-2 lead.

Luis Castillo hit an RBI grounder in the bottom half following a double by pinch-hitter Lenny Harris, who had been in an 0-for-9 slump.

San Diego loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth, but Matt Perisho struck out Brian Giles.

After loading the bases with a walk to Conine in the bottom half, Antonio Osuna stuck out the side, getting Ramon Castro looking, and Alex Gonzalez and pinch-hitter Damion Easley swinging.

Notes: Marlins RHP A.J. Burnett, returning from elbow ligament replacement surgery, threw 41 pitches while facing batters before the game. Burnett, scheduled to pitch 45-50 pitches over three simulated innings Wednesday, could make his first rehab start as early as May 18. … Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz, who played for San Diego in 1998-99, visited Bruce Bochy in the manager’s office before the game. … Florida’s Alex Gonzalez went 0-for-4 and is 8-for-91 (.088) in his last 24 games against San Diego. … Mike Lowell’s two-out double in the seventh moved him ahead of Cliff Floyd for the team career doubles lead at 168. … San Diego left 14 batters stranded.

AP-ES-05-08-04 2134EDT


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