MLB

Shawn Estes pitched six solid innings as the San Diego Padres recorded a 5-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

Estes (2-1) surrendered one run and seven hits for his first winsince May 13 and helped the Padres snap a three-game skid. Hundley lifted a sacrifice fly in the second and drove in the go-ahead run in the fourth with an RBI double against Milwaukee starter Jeff Suppan (10-8).

Rodriguez smacked a run-scoring single in the fifth and Will Venable belted his first career homer in the sixth to give the Padres a 4-1 advantage. Trevor Hoffman recorded his 28th save of the season with a scoreless ninth for San Diego.

Rookie James Parr outdueled Shairon Martis, who was also pitching in his first big-league game, to lead the struggling Atlanta Braves to a 2-0 victory over the last-place Washington Nationals.

Brian McCann and Gregor Blanco drove in a run each for Atlanta, which won for just the sixth time in its last 24 games. Parr scattered two hits while walking three and striking out three over six scoreless frames to notch his first major league win.

Parr hurled 60 of his 101 pitches for strikes to cool a red-hot Nationals' lineup, which had helped its club win eight of its last nine games entering this one.

Joey Votto singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the Cincinnati Reds rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-6 and avoided a sweep in the finale of a three-game series.

Votto finished with two hits and two RBI, including a single to right field off Pittsburgh's T.J. Beam in the eighth that scored Corey Patterson for a 7-6 advantage.

The young first baseman also homered in the contest for Cincinnati, which fell behind 5-0 before its half of the second inning. Rookie Jay Bruce also went deep in the contest.

Jeff Keppinger also drove in a pair of runs for the Reds, including an RBI double in the fourth inning that cut the deficit to 5-3.