The Atlanta Braves might have lost a lot more than a game.
Pounded 9-2 by rookie Mike Bynum and the San Diego Padres on Thursday, the major league-leading Braves lost star center fielder Andruw Jones and pitcher Jason Marquis to injuries.
Marquis, on crutches after the game, left with a bruised left calf after he was hit by Phil Nevin's line drive in the third inning. Jones strained his left shoulder and right wrist making a diving catch of Bynum's flyball in the sixth.
Jones aggravated a shoulder injury he sustained June 26 against the New York Mets while leaping at the fence.
"I told myself not to dive, but it was a reaction," Jones said. "That's the way you play the game. It just happened."
Jones and Marquis (8-8) will be examined today.
"I have a pretty severe limp," Marquis said.
Bynum beat the team he grew up idolizing to win his first career decision. He allowed two runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings.
"It means a lot. I'm ecstatic," the 24-year-old left-hander said. "It couldn't have come against a better team."
San Diego's Gene Kingsale went 3-for-4 with a walk, scored four runs and made an over-the-shoulder catch of Chipper Jones' fly in the sixth.
GIANTS 3, METS 1: At San Francisco, Ryan Jensen pitched six strong innings to win for the first time in eight starts as San Francisco extended New York's losing streak to 11 games.
San Francisco, 2 1/2 games behind Los Angeles in the NL wild-card race, won all six meetings with the Mets this season.
DODGERS 6, MARLINS 2: At Los Angeles, Hideo Nomo beat Florida for the first time in 11 decisions, and Chad Kreuter was 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs in the Dodgers' 11th victory in 14 games.
DIAMONDBACKS 6, REDS 3: At Phoenix, Tony Womack extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a tiebreaking two-run homer in the fifth as Arizona swept its six-game season series with Cincinnati.
CARDINALS 5, PIRATES 4: At St. Louis, Fernando Vina doubled in two runs with one out in the ninth off Pittsburgh closer Mike Williams.
Vina's double to right ended Williams' Pittsburgh-record saves streak at 16, and kept the Cardinals five games ahead of second-place Houston in the NL Central.
ASTROS 9, CUBS 1: At Houston, Roy Oswalt pitched eight innings for his sixth straight win, and Brad Ausmus homered in Houston's six-run first.
Oswalt (16-6) improved to 4-0 in five starts against Chicago this season, giving up the only run on Fred McGriff's seventh-inning homer. Cubs starter Steve Smyth (1-2) retired only one batter, giving up six runs, four hits and three walks.
ROCKIES 14, EXPOS 6: At Denver, Jay Payton homered and drove in a career-high five runs and Todd Zeile had a home run and three RBIs for Colorado.
Payton, 4-for-5 with a triple, is batting .408 with four homers and 15 RBIs in 71 at-bats since being acquired from the Mets.
PHILLIES 7, BREWERS 0: At Milwaukee, Randy Wolf (9-7) allowed four hits in eight innings and hit his first career home run for Philadelphia.
Pat Burrell and Placido Polanco also hit solo homers off Jimmy Osting (0-1).