PHILADELPHIA ? Jimmy Rollins hit a three-run homer, Wilson Valdez had a three-RBI triple and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Florida Marlins 8-1 Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader.
The Phillies send Roy Halladay to the mound against Anibal Sanchez in the second game.
Rollins and Valdez had their big hits in a six-run third inning against Marlins starter Elih Villanueva (0-1). Villanueva threw 92 pitches and lasted three innings in his major league debut for the Marlins, who lost their fifth straight.
Kyle Kendrick (4-4) allowed one run and five hits in seven strong innings. The NL East-leading Phillies won their fifth straight game.
Rollins went deep for the second straight game and had four RBIs.
The Phillies are a season-high 16 games over .500 at 42-26 ? the best record in baseball.
The Phillies wasted little time rocking a jittery Villanueva. They led 2-1 in third when the righty unraveled. He hit Chase Utley, then walked two batters, loading the bases for Valdez.
Valdez is known more for being the winning pitcher in a 19-inning game than anything he's done at the plate this season.
He had only nine RBIs in 147 at-bats when he hit the ball deep into left-center. Florida left fielder Logan Morrison missed his stab at it and went tumbling, almost colliding with Chris Coghlan. Coghlan landed face-first on the warning track dirt, allowing Valdez to scoot to third for the triple.
Rollins homered three batters later, his sixth homer landing in the first few rows of the right-field seats. That made it 8-1 ? and the Marlins had no one warming in the bullpen.
Villanueva finished the third and that was it for Florida's 2010 minor league pitcher of the year (14-4, 2.26 ERA).
Kendrick, a former starter who was bounced to the pen earlier this year, pitched more than five innings for the first time this year. He allowed Morrison's two-out solo homer in the first, then retired 14 of 15 in one stretch. He allowed four singles and walked none after the homer.
Ryan Howard tied it in the first with an RBI double that scraped the right-field foul line and Rollins' single to right in the second made it 2-1. The Phillies' offense is back at full strength a day after beating the Marlins 9-1.
Notes: Phillies RHP Cole Hamels brushed off reporters a day after he left his start with tightness in the middle of his back. "I'm not injured. I'll talk to you guys in five days," he said. ... The Marlins optioned INF Ozzie Martinez to Triple A-New Orleans and purchased Villanueva's contract. To make room for Villanueva, the Marlins transferred RHP John Johnson to the 60-day disabled list. ... The Phillies have won four straight games in June for the first time since 2005.
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