The Rockies scored six runs in the fourth inning to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Monday night. The six runs were capped off by a three-run homer from Matt Holliday.

The win was Colorado’s 21st of their last 22 games, completing a four-game sweep of Arizona in the National League Championship Series.

The Rockies entered the season with a payroll of 54.4-million, one of the lowest in Major League Baseball.

The Chicago Cubs regained the lead over Milwaukee in their tight division race by beating the visiting Cincinnati Reds, 3-2, while the Brewers lost.

Alfonso Soriano was the hero in Chicago on Wednesday, hitting a leadoff homer in the first and throwing out Norris Hopper at the plate on Brandon Phillips's single to left in the eighth.

Astros 5, Brewers 4 Hunter Pence singled home the winning run off Matt Wise in the bottom of the 10th after Milwaukee had forced extra innings when Rickie Weeks hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth.

Mets 8, Nationals 4 Visiting New York ended a five-game losing streak. The game was tied heading to the fifth, when Jose Reyes singled with one out, Luis Castillo tripled him home and David Wright singled to make it 4-2. The Mets did not trail again,

Padres 5, Pirates 3 Scott Hairston hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth as San Diego rallied past Pittsburgh to increase its NL wild-card lead. The Padres won their sixth in a row.

Hairston launched an 0-1 pitch from Matt Capps over the left-field wall. Hairston, who hit a game-ending homer in the 10th inning against San Francisco on Aug. 3, had been just 5-for-30 with two outs and runners in scoring position this season.

Cardinals 2, Phillies 1 Philadelphia couldn't make it two extra-inning victories in a row in St. Louis. Yadier Molina singled home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning, and St. Louis stopped Philadelphia's six-game winning streak. The Phillies had had a tense 7-4 victory in 14 innings Tuesday.

Diamondbacks 6, Giants 4 Arizona overcame Doug Davis's poor start to keep on playoffs track. Chris Snyder had three hits and three RBI against visiting San Francisco, Mark Reynolds added three hits and two RBI, and Conor Jackson homered.

Yankees 2, Orioles 1 Andy Pettitte earned his 200th victory as New York edged visiting Baltimore to complete a three-game sweep. Mariano Rivera escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth for the Yankees, who closed in on Boston in their division race. New York has won 12 of 14.

Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 1 Russ Adams hit a grand slam in the eighth inning off Jonathan Papelbon as Toronto swept a three-game series from visiting Boston.

With steroids and human growth hormone scandals surrounding it, Major League Baseball (MLB) has gone into a desperation mode where it tries to find dignity in the strangest of places. On Tuesday, for example, MLB and Hall of Fame officials were on hand in Chicago to celebrate - get this - the use of a cellphone.

For the first time ever, a Chicago Cubs coach used a mobile to call from the dugout to the bullpen to get a relief pitcher stirring. The use of a cell phone replaces a decades long tradition of lifting up a bulky landline receiver to make the bullpen call.