Marlins shut out Diamondbacks

MIAMI - A.J. Burnett threw a three-hit shutout to win his career-high fifth straight start, and even added an RBI single to help the Florida Marlins beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 on Tuesday night.

Burnett (10-6) threw his second shutout of the year for the Marlins, who have 12 as a team - the most in the major leagues, one more than Atlanta. Burnett also became the seventh pitcher this season with multiple blankings.

Over this five-game run, Burnett has allowed 28 hits and just six earned runs - an ERA of 1.46.

Matt Treanor, Mike Lowell, Chris Aguila and Jeff Conine all had two hits for the Marlins. Treanor doubled twice and scored twice, Lowell also had two runs and Conine hit his first triple of the season.

Craig Counsell doubled for Arizona, which matched a season-low by falling six games under.500. Javier Vasquez (9-11) allowed eight hits and five runs in five innings for his seventh loss in 10 starts.

Burnett struck out five and walked three. He allowed only three baserunners in the first five innings, and two of those were quickly erased in double plays turned by Marlins' middle infielders Alex Gonzalez and Luis Castillo.

He got into a first-and-second, one-out jam in the seventh, but induced a hard grounder from Arizona first baseman Conor Jackson - one that Lowell turned into another double play, ending the inning and drawing an emphatic fist-pump from Burnett.

And another fist shake came when he got out of the eighth; Royce Clayton walked and eventually got to third with one out, but Burnett struck out Tony Clark and got Counsell to ground out to end the inning.

Another double play ended it in the ninth. Troy Glaus hit a hard shot down to Lowell, who tossed to Castillo, who threw over to Conine to cap Burnett's gem.

Florida's first run came in the second inning, when Lowell hit a one-out single and scored on Aguila's long double to left-center field.

The Marlins added three more in the fourth, with Lowell again starting the burst. He led off with a single and scored two batters later on a double by Treanor - who started at catcher again in place of Paul Lo Duca, still bothered by a strained hamstring.

Aguila scored Florida's third run with some nifty baserunning. With runners on second and third, Juan Pierre hit a chopper to shortstop. Clayton fired home in plenty of time to beat Aguila, but catcher Chris Snyder whiffed on the tag, and Aguila slid around him safely.

Conine drew a bases-loaded walk later in the inning, bringing home Treanor for a 4-0 lead. Vasquez escaped when Gonzalez - swinging at the first pitch - popped out, leaving the bases loaded.

Treanor made it 5-0 in the fifth, hitting a two-out double and scoring on Burnett's single to left - the second RBI of the season for the Marlins' right-hander.

Notes: The game opened a 13-game homestand for the Marlins, a 12-game road trip for the Diamondbacks.... Burnett made three great plays on comebackers. He juggled one from Chris Snyder before throwing to first for the out in the third, made an acrobatic snare of a ball hit by Conor Jackson in the fifth, and easily got a hard shot by pinch-hitter Quinton McCracken in the sixth.... The Diamondbacks are 0-2 against Burnett this season.... The Marlins are hitting.571 with the bases loaded and less than two out,.189 with two outs.... Clayton's six-game hitting streak ended; he's had four such streaks this season, but no seven-gamers.