Marlins 5, Astros 4
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MIAMI -- Mike Cameron belted a tying two-run homer for his first hit since joining the Florida Marlins, who completed a four-game sweep of the woeful Houston Astros with a 5-4 victory on Sunday.
Florida's Emilio Bonifacio had three hits, extending his career-best hitting streak to 12 games. He stole three bases and scored twice.
All-Star Gaby Sanchez drove in two runs for the rejuvenated Marlins, who head into the break with a season-best five-game winning streak. They're only five games below .500 (43-48) despite a streak last month of 19 losses in 20 games.
Houston All-Star Hunter Pence hit his 11th homer.
Cameron's homer off Wandy Rodriguez (6-6) made the score 3-all in the fourth. The Marlins are unbeaten since he joined them Wednesday following a trade with the Boston Red Sox.
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Rodriguez gave up five runs in 5 1-3 innings for the Astros, who go into the All-Star break with a record of 30-62, worst in the majors.
The Astros were swept in a four-game series for the first time since May 2007 at Arizona. The four-game sweep was the first for Florida since May 2010 against the Mets.
Florida's Chris Volstad (5-8) allowed three runs in six innings. Leo Nunez pitched a perfect ninth for his 25th save.
Nationals 2, Rockies 0
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WASHINGTON -- Jordan Zimmermann took a shutout into the seventh inning, Roger Bernadina and Rick Ankiel provided the offense, and the Washington Nationals beat the Colorado Rockies 2-0 Sunday to head into the All-Star break with a .500 record for the first time since 2005.
This amounted to a rout for the Nationals, whose previous 10 victories had come by either one run or in extra innings. They ended a three-game losing streak, too -- and each of those defeats were by a single run.
Zimmermann (6-7) went 6 1-3 innings, allowing four singles. He also struck out six and didn't walk anyone, continuing his impressive return from reconstructive elbow surgery.
He was nearly matched by Colorado's Jhoulys Chacin (8-7), who gave up one run and four hits in seven innings.
Bernadina hit a broken-bat RBI single in the sixth, while Ankiel hit his third homer of the season, off reliever Matt Reynolds in the eighth.
Nationals closer Drew Storen worked around a two-out double to earn his 23rd save in 26 chances.
This was the third time in Zimmermann's last six starts that he didn't allow a run. He also has pitched at least six innings in 13 consecutive outings.
It probably did not hurt this time around that Rockies manager Jim Tracy held three starting position players out of the lineup so they'd get an extended rest because of the midseason break that begins Monday: Carlos Gonzalez, who recently missed four games with a bruised right wrist; Ty Wigginton and Chris Iannetta.
Giants 4, Mets 2
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Pablo Sandoval celebrated his first All-Star game selection by hitting an RBI double to extend his hitting streak to 21 games and fellow All-Star Matt Cain pitched six scoreless innings to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 4-2 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday night.
Nate Schierholtz added four hits and an RBI after being moved up to the cleanup spot for the Giants, who have won four of five to take a three-game lead over Arizona in the NL West heading into the All-Star break.
Cain (8-5) allowed five hits and three walks. Brian Wilson gave up an RBI double to Justin Turner in the ninth before recording his 26th save.
Mike Pelfrey (5-8) took the loss.
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