Everett, Gilkey Power Mets’ Comeback Win

Carl Everett capped a six-run ninth inning with a game-tying grand slam, and Bernard Gilkey hit a three-run pinch-hit homer in the 11th Saturday, giving the New York Mets a dramatic 9-6 victory over the Montreal Expos.

New York remained 5-1/2 games behind Florida, the wild-card leader, with 15 games remaining. Four of those are against the Marlins next weekend in Miami.

Montreal’s Dustin Hermanson took a one-hitter into the ninth before Butch Huskey and Carlos Baerga began the comeback with consecutive one-out singles. After Petagine’s pinch-single made it 6-2 and chased Hermanson, reliever Shayne Bennett allowed a single to Luis Lopez. Ugueth Urbina came in and gave up a single to Matt Franco that loaded the bases with two outs.

Everett pulled his first pitch foul deep down the right-field line, then worked the count to 3-2 and hit his third career grand slam.

Rockies 10, Braves 6 Atlanta

Colorado won for the 14th time in 16 games and moved within six games of the N.L. West lead, rallying from a three-run deficit to beat Atlanta.

Dante Bichette hit a tie-breaking infield single in the seventh and Vinny Castilla followed with a two-run single. Colorado made it 10-5 in the eighth on Walt Weiss’ RBI double and Ellis Burks’ run-scoring single.

Atlanta’s Denny Neagle, bidding for his 21st victory, was tagged for five runs and seven hits in six innings.

Astros 5, Dodgers 1 Houston

Houston took advantage of Tom Candiotti’s record-tying four hit batters and Darryl Kile struck out a career-high 13 as the Astros sent Los Angeles to its fifth straight loss.

Kile (18-6) won for the first time in five starts.

Padres 8, Cardinals 3 St. Louis

Tony Gwynn reached 200 hits for the fifth time and Greg Vaughn had a three-run double as San Diego beat St. Louis.

Todd Erdos (2-0) struck out four in two scoreless innings to pick up the win.

Reds 3, Phillies 0 Philadelphia

Dave Burba (9-10) allowed four hits in seven innings and Willie Greene homered to lead Cincinnati past Philadelphia.

Jeff Shaw pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th straight save and 36th in 42 chances.

Marlins 8, Giants 1 Miami

Giant-killer Kevin Brown pitched a three-hitter and Devon White hit two home runs to spark Florida to a win over San Francisco.

Moises Alou hit a three-run homer for the Marlins, his 21st.

J.T. Snow led off the fifth with a single, ending a streak of 14 consecutive hitless innings for the Giants against Brown (14-8). He no-hit them in a 9-0 victory June 10.

Cubs 4, Pirates 1 Pittsburgh

Steve Trachsel won on the road for the first time in nearly a year, leading Chicago over Pittsburgh.

Trachsel (7-11) was 0-7 in 12 road starts before limiting the Pirates to five hits and an unearned run over seven innings - his first road victory since last Sept. 23, when he won in Pittsburgh 4-3.

Clearing the bases

Chipper Jones is the first Braves third baseman to have consecutive 100-RBI seasons since Eddie Mathews in 1959-60 and the first Brave with back-to-back 100-RBI years since Dale Murphy in 1984-85. Jones also hit his 39th double, tying Terry Pendleton for the club record. … Pittsburgh’s Shawon Dunston has walked only once in 222 plate appearances since June 28 and has only eight walks all season… . The Cardinals’ Ron Gant struck out three times and has a team-record 154 this season, breaking the old mark of 147 by Ray Lankford in 1992.