DENVER — Not nearly as dramatic as Ryan Spilborghs' game-ending grand slam 24 hours earlier, Troy Tulowitzki's line-drive single was just as fruitful.

Tulowitzki lined a fastball into center field off James McDonald (3-3) with one out and the bases loaded in the 10th to give the Colorado Rockies a wild 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the opener of a crucial three-game series last night.

Tulowitzki's hit made a winner of Matt Herges (1-0), who pitched a perfect 10th as the Rockies, who trailed the Dodgers by 15 1/2 games on June 3, sliced L.A.'s lead in the NL West to just two games.

"We feel them coming. That is a good team," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "They keep playing. That's what you want a team to do is keep playing. They are very dangerous because they keep coming at you.

"They hustle all the time and ... they play fundamentally sound baseball," Torre said. "If you do that and believe, some good things will happen. That is a key at this time of the year."

Colorado (72-54), the NL wild-card leader, moved 18 games over .500 for the first time in their history, besting the 90-73 mark they had after beating San Diego in the one-game playoff on their way to the 2007 NL pennant.

"We look at it as all the pressure's on them," Tulowitzki said. "They're supposed to win the division. They were up by 15 1/2. We're just messing around, I guess."

Brad Hawpe and Clint Barmes homered for the Rockies, who got a solid seven innings from Jason Hammel (two earned runs on eight hits) in outdueling Clayton Kershaw, who allowed two runs on four hits in 6 1/3 innings.

"I see a team playing with a lot of confidence," Kershaw said. "That's a good team. Everyone is throwing well. All of their starters are throwing well and they getting timely hitting and the clutch hits. That's what we were doing the first 90 games of the season."

Casey Blake hit a solo shot in the fourth for Los Angeles, his 16th homer giving the Dodgers an early 2-0 lead. Hawpe tied it with a two-run homer, his 18th, in the bottom of the inning.

PIRATES 6, PHILLIES 4:

Andrew McCutchen belted a two-run homer with no out in the bottom of the ninth inning off closer Brad Lidge as Pittsburgh rallied past Philadelphia. The Phillies lost for only the second time in nine games despite two homers by Jimmy Rollins.

CARDINALS 1, ASTROS 0:

Adam Wainwright (15-7) worked eight innings of three-hit ball to become the NL's first 15-game winner, and Albert Pujols hit a one-out RBI double down the third-base line in the first inning against Wandy Rodriguez (12-8) as host St. Louis beat Houston.

MARLINS 2, METS 1:

Sean West (5-5) gave up a run and six hits over six innings, Ross Gload hit an RBI single in the fifth, and Leo Nunez recorded his 13th save in 17 chances as Florida held off New York.

NATIONALS 15, CUBS 6:

Elijah Dukes hit a grand slam in a six-run fifth inning and Josh Willingham had two homers and six RBIs as visiting Washington rocked Carlos Zambrano (7-5) in his return from the disabled list.

PADRES 2, BRAVES 1:

David Eckstein's double drove in Nick Hundley and Edward Mujica earned his second save with a 1-2-3 bottom of the 12th inning as San Diego recovered after blowing a ninth-inning lead to beat Atlanta.

REDS 8, BREWERS 6:

After allowing Milwaukee to score five runs with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the score at 6, Joey Votto and Laynce Nix hit solo home runs in the top of the 13th off Todd Coffey (4-3) to lift Cincinnati.

GIANTS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4:

Travis Ishikawa hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning after scoring the tying run in the seventh on a wild pitch as host San Francisco held off Arizona, which rallied for two runs in the top of the ninth.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

RAYS 7, BLUE JAYS 3:

Carlos Pena hit two two-run homers, giving him 200 homers for his career, and James Shields (8-10) allowed three runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings to lead visiting Tampa past Toronto.

ROYALS 6, INDIANS 2:

Zack Greinke (12-8) broke Mark Gubicza's 21-year-old team record of 14 strikeouts with 15 in eight innings, and Mitch Maier and Miguel Olivo hit home runs as host Kansas City beat Cleveland to end a five-game losing streak.

RED SOX 6, WHITE SOX 3:

Jason Bay hit a solo homer to break a 3-all eighth-inning tie, and Jacoby Ellsbury, who had three hits to go with his franchise-record 55th stolen base, added an RBI single to cap a three-run rally as host Boston beat Chicago.

RANGERS 10, YANKEES 9:

Michael Young and Nelson Cruz homered, and rookie shortstop Elvis Andrus turned Melky Cabrera's liner into a game-ending double play to stop a four-run rally as host Texas held off New York.

TWINS 7, ORIOLES 6:

Delmon Young's fourth hit of the night, a liner off a diving Brian Roberts' glove at second base with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, scored Michael Cuddyer to help Minnesota win its fifth in a row.

MARINERS 4, ATHLETICS 2:

Defensive replacement Ryan Langerhans homered off Craig Breslow (5-7) with Franklin Gutierrez on first base and one out in the bottom of the 10th inning to send Seattle past Oakland.

TIGERS 5, ANGELS 3:

Curtis Granderson and Placido Polanco hit back-to-back triples in the seventh inning, with Polanco driving in the go-ahead run and scoring on a sacrifice fly by Magglio Ordonez, as visiting Detroit beat Los Angeles.