Maddux Gets 350

SAN DIEGO 3, COLORADO 2--------

SAN DIEGO (Ticker) - Greg Maddux pitched six stellar innings Saturday en route to his 350th career win as the San Diego Padres snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies.

A four-time Cy Young Award winner, the 42-year-old Maddux became the ninth pitcher in major league history to join the 350-win club. He joins Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Pete Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Pud Galvin, Warren Spahn, Kid Nichols and Roger Clemens on the exclusive list.

Maddux (2-3), who failed to reach the milestone in his previous four starts, yielded an unearned run and three hits with no walks and one strikeout. The future Hall of Famer's only blemish on the night came in the sixth. Willy Taveras laid down a bunt, and the 17-time Gold Glove winner skipped his throw to first into right field. Taveras advanced to third on the play and scored on Omar Quintanilla's groundout.

After Cla Meredith pitched a perfect seventh, Heath Bell surrendered an RBI double by Taveras in the eighth. But Trevor Hoffman closed it out to collect his sixth save. Adrian Gonzalez provided all the offense Maddux needed in the fourth inning, when he blasted a three-run homer off Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez (1-3) over the left-center field wall to give the Padres a 3-0 cushion.

Colorado could do little else in support of Jimenez, who recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings. The 24-year-old righthander yielded three runs on five hits and three walks. Clint Barmes contributed a pair of singles for the Rockies, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. San Diego recorded four stolen bases in the contest, the first time it swiped that many since August 10, 2007.