MIAMI – Greg Maddux, off to the worst start in his career, earned his first win of the season by pitching the Atlanta Braves past the Florida Marlins 7-1 Sunday.

Vinny Castilla homered and drove in five runs as the Braves stopped Florida’s four-game winning streak.

Maddux (1-3) gave up one run and two hits in six innings, lowering his ERA from 11.05 to 8.27. The four-time Cy Young winner had lost his first three starts for the first time ever.

Pitching on three days’ rest, Maddux walked none and struck out three. He threw 59 pitches, 40 for strikes.

The Braves had scored five runs in Maddux’s previous three starts, including a 17-1 loss to Florida at Atlanta on April 5. Maddux surrendered eight hits and seven earned runs in two innings of that game. John Smoltz pitched the final two innings to earn his third save, completing the combined four-hitter.

Cubs 4, Pirates 3

CHICAGO – Corey Patterson hit an RBI single and pinch-hitter Troy O’Leary had a sacrifice fly as the Chicago Cubs rallied in the eighth inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Sunday.

The Cubs trailed 3-2 going into the eighth, but wound up scoring twice after a series of moves by both managers.

Sammy Sosa led off the Cubs eighth with a double against Boehringer. One out later, Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon pulled Boehringer (0-1) after he had a 2-0 count to Hee Seop Choi.

Cardinals 11, Astros 8

HOUSTON – Edgar Renteria homered twice and matched a career high with five RBIs as the St. Louis Cardinals roughed up Roy Oswalt and beat the Houston Astros 11-8 Sunday.

Renteria hit a three-run shot in a six-run seventh inning against Oswalt (1-1), who gave up 10 runs in the worst start of his career.

Jeff Bagwell homered twice and drove in three runs for Houston. Lance Berkman and Craig Biggio added solo shots.

Expos 2, Mets 1

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Orlando Cabrera hit a tying home run off Armando Benitez in the ninth inning and Jose Vidro had a game-winning shot leading off the 10th as the Montreal Expos won a hot one Sunday, 2-1 over the New York Mets.

It was 136 degrees on the field when the game started, and the Expos walked off with a fiery win. They are 3-0 at their new part-time home, and have won four straight overall.

Even with the wind blowing in, Cabrera hit Benitez’s third pitch into the left-field bleachers. Montreal won it an inning later against Mike Stanton (0-2) when Vidro, one of the team’s Puerto Rican stars, golfed a low pitch – Stanton’s first – over the wall.

Phillies 13, Reds 1

CINCINNATI – The Philadelphia Phillies scored a team-record 13 runs in the fourth inning and beat the Cincinnati Reds 13-1 Sunday.

Ricky Ledee’s three-run homer capped Philadelphia’s outburst, which fell just two runs short of the National League record.

After facing just 11 batters through the first three innings, Ryan Dempster (1-1) faced 11 in the fourth alone. Bobby Abreu walked and scored twice, and Jim Thome singled and scored twice in the inning.

Abreu walked to start the fourth, Thome singled and Pat Burrell followed with an RBI double to left. Thome scored on David Bell’s groundout, and Mike Lieberthal popped up for the second out. Then the onslaught began.

The Reds intentionally walked Ledee to get to Wolf, who drove in Burrell with a sharp RBI single to right to make it 3-0. Dempster then walked three successive batters, forcing in two more runs.

Thome drove in two more with a bases-loaded single to make it 7-0.

Scott Sullivan took over, walking the first two batters he faced to force in another run. Lieberthal singled in two runs, and Ledee hit a three-run homer to right, his first of the year.

Dempster allowed nine runs on five hits and five walks in 3 2-3 innings.

Wolf held Cincinnati hitless through four innings until Adam Dunn led off the fifth with a single up the middle. He advanced on a single by Ruben Mateo and a wild pitch, and scored on Jason LaRue’s groundout.

Wolf allowed four hits, walked one and struck out eight in six innings.

Notes: Reds SS Barry Larkin sat out his third consecutive game since sustaining a slight left calf muscle strain Thursday night in Houston. Backup Felipe Lopez has committed a throwing error in all three games. … Ledee entered in the third after CF Marlon Byrd sustained a cut on his left knee in a home plate collision with C LaRue. Byrd was thrown out by CF Mateo while trying to score on a fly out by Placido Polanco.

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