NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Cardinals Gain Split With Giants

Bob Tewksbury gave up a home run to Barry Bonds and then not much else, but by the time his St. Louis Cardinals finished winning the second game, 5-1, to split a doubleheader against the San Francisco Giants, most of the fans at Candlestick Park had left.

A cold, windy evening was exacerbated by a four-hour, 11-inning first game, won by the Giants, 4-3, on Matt Williams’ two-out, run-scoring single.

“The first few days it was beautiful. The last couple of days it’s been all I’ve heard about,” said Rich Monteleone, signed by the Giants as a free agent in the off-season and the first-game winner. “The Giants are the only team I’ve played for that have five different jackets.”

Tewksbury and Salomon Torres engaged in a pitchers’ battle for four innings of the second game.

The Cardinals didn’t get a hit off Torres until the fifth inning. Then he faltered, giving up five hits and three walks in two innings.

Jose Oquendo drove in Mark Whiten with a single to tie the score, and Tewksbury followed with an RBI single.

Tewksbury (2-0) gave up six hits in seven innings and struck out four.

Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1--In his first victory after a disappointing 1993, John Smiley pitched 7 1/3 shutout innings for the Reds, who won their third in a row at Cincinnati.

Smiley, a washout in the first season of an $18.4-million, four-year contract, won for the first time since June 7 by limiting the Phillies to seven hits. He was 3-9 last year and needed elbow surgery in August.

He has given up only three runs in his two starts this season.

Pittsburgh 10, Colorado 5--Carlos Garcia homered and drove in three runs, and Jay Bell had three hits at Pittsburgh as the Pirates finally got some production from the top of their batting order and became the last National League team to get a victory.

Pittsburgh’s top two spots in the order, filled by Garcia, Bell and Al Martin thus far, were a combined one for 31 as the Pirates started 0-4.

They picked on the right team. Despite a league-leading 11 homers in five games, the Rockies have been outscored, 46-30, while losing four of five. Their team earned-run average is 7.16.

New York 8, Houston 2--After starting the season under a five-day suspension for spraying bleach on reporters last season, Bret Saberhagen made his first start a good one, pitching a five-hitter at Houston and taking a shutout into the ninth inning before giving up consecutive homers to Andujar Cedeno and pinch-hitter Chris Donnels.

Chicago 4, Montreal 3--John Wetteland, who blew only six saves in 49 chances last season and had not given up a run since last Aug. 29, gave up two in the ninth inning at Montreal as the Cubs rallied to win.

Florida 15, San Diego 1--Jeff Conine hit two home runs and drove in five runs as the Marlins set a team scoring record at San Diego. Conine hit a three-run homer off A.J. Sager during an eight-run outburst in the seventh inning, and had a two-run shot off Mark Davis in a six-run ninth.

The 15 runs broke the team record of 12, set last Aug. 11 in a victory over the Chicago Cubs.