MIAMI (Ticker) -- Derrek Lee again powered the Florida Marlins past the Atlanta Braves.
Lee hit a two-run shot and legged out an inside-the-park homer, collecting five RBI, as the Marlins rolled to a 12-5 rout of the Braves.
Lee did not homer this season until Friday, when he belted a three-run blast as Florida opened the three-game series with a 7-4 victory.
The Marlins were trailing by two runs in the fourth inning of this one when Lee drove a 1-1 pitch from starter Russ Ortiz (1-2) over the right field wall for his 100th homer with the team.
"I just feel real good at the plate right now," Lee said. "I think I'm showing patience and waiting for my pitches. I don't think it's as much a matter of being in a zone as it is being focused on the job at hand and getting it done."
"I just didn't make my pitches," Ortiz said. "In this league, you can't make mistakes on good hitters and that's what I did."
With two outs, starting pitcher Carl Pavano (2-2) tripled in a run to give the Florida a 4-3 lead.
"As soon as I saw him (right fielder Gary Sheffield) dive and miss it, I decided to take my chances and go for it," Pavano said. "I got my second wind going around second and managed to make it in spite of my nose-first slide."
Florida never trailed again and reeled off its fourth straight victory.
The Marlins had a 7-4 cushion and runners at first and second in the seventh when Lee hit a 2-2 offering from Jason Marquis off the wall near the 434-foot sign in center field.
"I thought it was out at first," Lee said. "(I) kind of dogged it around first until I saw it bounce and had to turn it on."
The ball bounced off the warning track and rolled away from center fielder Andruw Jones. Sheffield retrieved it, but the relay throw arrived at the plate just after Lee, who recorded the 10th inside-the-park homer in club history.
"I wound up being in a full sprint," Lee said. "I was dead out of gas and too tired to slide. I saw he was going to keep waving me on and never even thought about stopping."
"I didn't hit my spots," Marquis said. "You get hurt when you give them pitches in their zone. Not a great effort at all on my part."
Mike Redmond recorded Florida's last inside-the-park homer on August 20, 2001 against Houston.
Lee's 101 homers put him fourth on the team's all-time list, trailing heffield by 21.
"Power hitters hit in cycles," Marlins manager Jeff Torborg said. "Derrek is in one of those cycles right now."
Pavano allowed four runs - three earned - and nine hits in 6 2/3 innings. The righthander walked none and struck out three.
"Pavano had exceptional stuff and really kept us in the game early," Torborg said. "He had good control and didn't get behind a lot of hitters."
The Marlins combined for 15 hits, including at least one by each starter. Luis Castillo singled three times and drove in two runs, and Juan Pierre's base-hit in the third increased his season-opening hitting streak to a club-record 12 games.
"I'm just finding the holes and getting good hits when it counts," Pierre said. "It's something you roll with and try to keep going, but it's helping the team win, that's (what) I'm focused on."
The Braves have captured 11 straight division titles, but are off to a rocky start in 2003, losing eight of their first 12 games.
"The team is really down right now," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "We haven't played great, but it's not at a point in the season where you panic."
Atlanta catcher Javy Lopez had a solo shot in the fourth and Ortiz registered his fifth career homer an inning later, but the Braves lost for the fifth time in six games.
