NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Distracted Bonds Homers Twice in Victory

Neither physical nor mental distractions seemed to bother Barry Bonds on Tuesday.

The San Francisco Giants’ superstar withstood both the pain of a sore right elbow and sore left shoulder and the intrusion of a legal problem, hitting two home runs in a 5-2 victory over the Astros at Houston.

Bonds’ first homer was a two-run shot in the fourth that barely cleared the left field wall.

“The one to left field hurt; the one to left-center (in the eighth, his 11th) didn’t,” said Bonds, who was struck on the right elbow by a pitch from New York’s Eric Hillman on May 5.

Before Tuesday’s game, Bonds was subpoened for a deposition arising from a family dispute.

“That’s no big deal, really,” Bonds said. “It’s no big deal at all. If I wasn’t who I was, hitting .100, it wouldn’t even be in the paper.

“Getting out of Candlestick helped,” Bonds said of the Giants’ chilly home stadium.

“It was too much Barry Bonds,” Astros Manager Terry Collins said. “But everybody’s seen that at one time or another.”

Bill Swift (6-3) picked up the victory.

Harnisch (2-4), who missed his last start because of a nagging shoulder injury, got the loss.

St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0--Cardinal left-hander Tom Urbani, who had won only once previously in the majors, held the Pirates to one hit over 7 2/3 innings at Pittsburgh in a record-tying shutout.

The Cardinals used six pitchers to get the final five outs, tying the National League record for most pitchers used in a shutout. Florida had used six in a 3-0 victory over Chicago on Sunday.

“And I didn’t have any left,” said St. Louis Manager Joe Torre, who was down to his final reliever--Rene Arocha--when Brian Hunter flied out to end the game.

Carlos Garcia singled twice for the Pirates’ only hits. Pittsburgh has already been shut out six times in 37 games.

Urbani (1-3) was 1-5 in his career and hadn’t won since beating San Francisco last Sept. 10.

Pittsburgh starter Zane Smith (4-4) lost for the third time in four decisions.

Chicago 11, San Diego 4--Sammy Sosa homered to cap a seven-run third inning at Chicago and the Cubs went on to hand the Padres their ninth consecutive loss.

San Diego led, 3-0, before Scott Sanders (1-3), activated from the disabled list before the game, lost his control.

Then, so did the Padres, whose losing streak is their longest since a nine-game skid from Sept. 24-Oct. 3, 1987. The Padres have lost 14 of their last 17.

Winning pitcher Jose Guzman (1-2) was activated off the disabled list before the game. He hadn’t pitched since April 10 because of shoulder tendinitis.

New York 4, Florida 3--Joe Orsulak, who had earlier hit a game-tying home run, drove in two runs with a two-out, bases-loaded single in the ninth inning to give the Mets the victory at home.

Orsulak had led off the sixth with a solo homer, his fifth, to tie the score at 2-2.

John Franco (1-2) was the winner, Jeremy Hernandez (2-2) took the loss.

The Marlins had won 11 of their previous 16 road games.

Philadelphia 6, Montreal 5--Third baseman Sean Berry threw wildly to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning at Philadelphia, allowing the tying and winning runs to score.

Dave Hollins and Darren Daulton walked to open the ninth and advanced on Jim Eisenreich’s sacrifice bunt off John Wetteland (2-3).

Hollins broke for home when Ricky Jordan hit a hard grounder to third. Berry fielded the ball going to his right and threw past catcher Darrin Fletcher into the Phillies’ dugout, allowing Hollins and Daulton to score.

Doug Jones (2-1) pitched the ninth to gain the victory.

Cincinnati 4, Atlanta 3--Jacob Brumfield’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 10th inning gave the Reds a come-from-behind victory at home.

Cincinnati overcame a 3-0 deficit against Greg Maddux and Greg McMichael (1-2), who failed to hold a one-run lead in the ninth.

Barry Larkin’s two-out single tied the game and gave McMichael his second blown save in 10 chances.

The Brave pitcher gave away the game in the 10th when he committed two errors on Kevin Mitchell’s comeback grounder, one for letting it go off his glove and another for throwing the ball into the dugout after recovering it.

Jeff Brantley (3-1) got the win.

Deion Sanders was ejected in the third inning after being called out for interference at first base by umpire Bob Davidson. After arguing on the field, Sanders went into the dugout and threw a water cooler onto the field, drawing the ejection.