--LHP Jonathan Sanchez gave up two runs and six hits in six innings to improve to 3-3 with a 4.26 ERA. He threw 102 pitches, and his first five innings were scoreless. Sanchez's problem is inconsistency. He earned his first win in six starts.
--C Bengie Molina had three more hits, his seventh consecutive multiple-hit game. He's hitting .339 on the season and .625 nine games into the 10-game trip (with 14 RBIs). He has a 10-game hit streak. --CF Aaron Rowand is hitting .337 after he went 2-for-3 with two RBIs Wednesday. He's tied with C Bengie Molina with 56 hits, tops on the team. Rowand is also No. 1 with seven homers and a .398 on-base percentage.
--INF Emmanuel Burriss played for SS Omar Vizquel and went 1-for-3. His shining moment came in the fifth inning when he hit a first-pitch fastball for a bases-loaded, two-out single between short and third.
--LHP Barry Zito, coming off his first win of 2008, will face LHP Randy Johnson in Thursday's series finale in Phoenix. Last Friday, Zito beat the Marlins by throwing 6 1/3 innings and allowing one run. Zito was handed losses in two starts against Arizona this year. In the games, he had a 9.39 ERA.
BY THE NUMBERS: 15 -- Doubles for Bengie Molina, through May 25. He had 19 last year. His career high is 24 in 2003.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I try to work in the process. Results just happen as they may," -- LHP Barry Zito, after beating the Marlins (one run, 6 1/3 innings) for his first victory of the year. He started 0-8.
