Greg Dobbs hit a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning Friday night, lifting Philadelphia to a 3-2 victory over New York in the opener of a crucial weekend series.

Philadelphia picked up its sixth straight victory against the Mets - five have been by two runs or fewer and two came in extra innings - and has won five of its past seven overall.

"In tough situations with a team over and over again, you get yourself real familiar with everything they're trying to do and vice versa," shortstop Jimmy Rollins said.

On a night where the Mets' Tom Glavine and the Phillies' Jamie Moyer pitched well but failed to get decisions, Philadelphia picked up its major league-leading 44th come-from-behind win and cut the Mets' lead to 5 1/2 games in the division.

The Phillies remained 1 1/2 games behind wild card-leading San Diego, which beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4. The Los Angeles Dodgers are also 1 1/2 games behind the Padres after beating the NL West-leading Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4.

In other NL games, it was Florida 7, Colorado 6; Chicago 5, St. Louis 3; Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 5; Atlanta 8, Washington 5 in 13 innings and Pittsburgh 4, Houston 3.

The Phillies and Mets were playing the first matchup between the top teams in the division since Philadelphia swept a four-game series last month to cut its deficit to two games. New York responded by winning 10 of 12.

"They've played well late in games and we haven't," Mets third baseman David Wright said. "We had our opportunities tonight offensively and didn't cash in."

Jayson Werth led off the 10th inning with a single off Aaron Heilman (7-7). Carlos Ruiz popped a bunt foul but backup catcher Mike DiFelice, who entered after Paul Lo Duca was ejected in the ninth, couldn't bring it in.

Given another chance, Ruiz got the sacrifice down and Heilman threw the ball into center field, giving Philadelphia runners on first and second. Abraham Nunez advanced both runners with another sacrifice, and Dobbs' fly ball to center field made it 3-2.

Tom Gordon (3-2) struck out three in 1 1-3 scoreless innings to get the win and Brett Myers got three outs for his 16th save.

Philadelphia tied it at 2 in the sixth when Chase Utley hit a two-run homer. But Glavine settled down after that, giving up five hits in 7 2-3 innings.

"You kind of walk away with an empty feeling," Glavine said. "There's not a lot I can do. You just go out there and try and pitch well, give us an opportunity to win the game."

Wright hit the first pitch he saw from Moyer into the bleachers in left to give New York a 1-0 lead in the first. Moises Alou added an RBI single in the fourth inning before the 44-year-old Moyer settled in.

"I don't why we play them so well," Dobbs said. "It's a pretty big rivalry. We've been the underdog the whole season."

Padres 5, Giants 4, 10 innings

At San Diego, Khalil Greene homered with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning off Dan Giese (0-1) to help the Padres retain their wild-card lead.

Trevor Hoffman (4-4) pitched a perfect inning for the win and San Diego closed within three games of NL West-leading Arizona.