Nolasco strikes out 10, Florida reaches 10 hits again in 6-2 win over Houston

Marlins reach 10 hits again in 6-2 win over Astros

HOUSTON — Ricky Nolasco struck out 10 in his second complete game of the season and the Florida Marlins had 10 hits for the 14th consecutive game in a 6-2 win Tuesday night over the Houston Astros.

Dan Uggla, Jorge Cantu and Jeremy Hermida hit solo homers for the Marlins, who’ve won nine of 11.

Florida’s streak of 10-hit games is the longest since the 1937 St. Louis Browns reached the total in 15 straight, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Nolasco (9-8) retired 23 in a row after Carlos Lee’s two-run homer in the first inning. He threw 115 pitches to complete the fifth complete game by a Marlins’ pitcher this season.

The Astros lost for the sixth time in eight games after trading catcher Ivan Rodriguez to Texas earlier in the day.

Rookie Bud Norris (3-1) gave up five runs on nine hits in 5 2-3 innings to lose for the first time in four major-league starts.

Nolasco cruised after a shaky first inning.

Lance Berkman doubled off the center-field wall before Lee homered to left on the first pitch he saw. Lee has hit seven home runs with 27 RBIs in his last 28 games.

Hanley Ramirez led off the fourth with a single to left and later scored on John Baker’s sacrifice fly. Uggla then tied it with a solo homer to right, his 22nd of the season.

Lee drove a 2-1 pitch to the wall in left-center in the Houston fourth, but Cody Ross caught it on the warning track. Nolasco struck out Geoff Blum to end the inning, then fanned Hunter Pence and Chris Coste in the fifth.

Norris had retired five in a row when Cantu homered into the left-field porch. Baker doubled to the gap in left center, prompting a mound visit by Houston pitching coach Dewey Robinson.

Uggla then beat out an infield single and Norris hit Ross with a pitch to load the bases. Hermida singled to right to drive home Baker and one out later, Norris walked Chris Coghlan to make it 5-2.

Left-hander Tim Byrdak relieved and got Ross Gload on a groundout to end the inning.

Hermida homered to right center off Sammy Gervacio in the eighth, Florida’s 10th hit.

Nolasco struck out Jason Michaels leading off the Astros’ ninth. Michael Bourn beat out a bouncer in front of the plate to snap Nolasco’s streak of outs. Nolasco retired Miguel Tejada and Berkman on flyouts to end it.

NOTES: Marlins 1B Nick Johnson was out of the starting lineup to rest a sore right hamstring. Manager Fredi Gonzalez said he was just playing it safe after Johnson left the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against Colorado. “He’s day-to-day,” Gonzalez said. “We’re just going to take it easy with him.” … The Astros placed LHP Mike Hampton on the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain and recalled RHP Felipe Paulino from Triple-A Round Rock. The move is retroactive to Aug. 14, the day after Hampton left his start against Florida with the injury. Yorman Bazardo (0-0) will take Hampton’s place in the rotation this week and start Wednesday’s game.