"The Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! have a new all-time home run leader. His name is Dan Uggla.

Uggla's record-setting homer, the 144th of his career, helped the Marlins clinch the series with a 6-3 win over the National League West-leading Padres at Petco Park Saturday. The Marlins are back at two games over .500 for the first time since May 25 (24-22).

Starter Ricky Nolasco positioned his team and ace Josh Johnson to sweep the three-game set and conclude a 5-2 road trip Sunday afternoon. Since June 23, no pitcher in baseball has won more games than Nolasco. Saturday, he improved to 12-7 after going 8 1/3 innings.

"The main thing is the bullpen coming in after me and getting the job done," Nolasco said. "It doesn't really matter if the wins are in my column. What matters is the team wins. The biggest thing is the defense and the bullpen coming in after me, bearing down and getting guys out."

Seven of Nolasco's wins have come over his last eight starts, during which he's logged a 3.38 ERA with 10 walks and 64 strikeouts in 56 innings. The Padres totaled five hits off him, three of which came during a two-run ninth.

Manager Edwin Rodriguez came out with two on, one out and Adrian Gonzalez up in the ninth. He decided to leave in Nolasco, who got ahead 0-2 only to watch Gonzalez hit a 1-2 offering into right for a two-run single. Leo Nunez got the last two outs for his 26th save.

"That's greatly appreciated," Nolasco said. "I let [Rodriguez] know that. It's a good feeling to have that confidence from your manager to leave you out there. I feel really bad letting him down there. I made a pretty good pitch on Gonzalez. It was just a really good piece of hitting."

With one out in the sixth and the Marlins up 2-0, Uggla eclipsed Mike Lowell for the franchise mark when he sent a Kevin Correia pitch into the left-field bleachers. It was Uggla's seventh homer in nine games. He had an eight-homer July after totaling 15 the first three months."