NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Bonds, Thompson Lead Giants, 8-1

The bats of Barry Bonds and Robby Thompson were as hot as the weather at Denver’s Mile High Stadium on Sunday.

Bonds hit two two-run homers and had five runs batted in and Thompson had three hits in his first three at-bats and scored each time in his return from the disabled list.

With John Burkett (5-6) pitching eight shutout innings, the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies, 8-1.

“The heat didn’t bother us,” Rockies Manager Don Baylor said of temperatures that reached a record 104 degrees. “That was not the problem. Barry Bonds was the problem, along with Robby Thompson. At one time, they were six for six, and that was pretty much the story.”

About the only positive for the Rockies was their crowd of 73,171. The Rockies set a major league attendance record, drawing 217,009 for the three-game series--105 more than Cleveland drew in the final series at their old stadium last season.

Thompson was playing for the first time since May 8, when he went on the disabled list because of an injured right shoulder.

St. Louis 3, Chicago 1--The Cardinals’ Rick Sutcliffe, facing 18 m.p.h. winds, gave up four hits in six innings at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, a place he knows pretty well.

“On days like this at Wrigley,” Sutcliffe said, “I know you don’t walk anybody.”

Sutcliffe (4-3), who spent eight seasons with the Cubs, struck out two and walked none in his first game at Wrigley Field since Sept. 22, 1991.

Cub broadcaster Harry Caray was to be honored for 50 years in broadcasting, but the ceremonies were postponed because Caray was recovering after passing out in Miami on Thursday.

Florida 6, Montreal 1--Mark Gardner pitched the way the Expos always hoped he would, working 7 2/3 shutout innings at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.

But the Expos didn’t expect to him to be on the other team.

Gardner (2-2), activated before the game after being sidelined since June 8 because of a groin injury, struck out 10 as the Marlins ended a season-high six-game losing steak.

Gardner broke in with the Expos in 1989 and pitched three seasons for Montreal before being traded to Kansas City in December of 1992.

Pittsburgh 7, New York 3--The Pirates swept the Mets at New York to reach .500 (36-36) and pull within three games of second-place Houston in the National League Central. The victory was the Pirates’ sixth in a row.

Paul Wagner (5-5) had a four-hit shutout through eight innings but tired in the ninth, when he gave up three runs and got only one out.

Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 8--Reliever Toby Borland halted a rally by the Braves at Philadelphia and got his first major league victory.

Borland came on in the fourth inning after the Braves had rallied from a 5-1 deficit to 5-4. Although his wild pitch scored Mark Lemke with Atlanta’s fourth run of the inning, he managed to get all three outs, then worked out of a one-out, bases-loaded situation in the fifth before getting the side in order in the sixth.

Phillie catcher Darren Daulton went three for three with a three-run homer and four runs scored. Daulton is batting .555 with eight runs scored and seven RBIs in his last seven games.

Cincinnati 12, San Diego 4--The Reds won for the seventh time in eight games as Hal Morris turned in his third four-hit game of the season and also drove in the go-ahead run in a five-run sixth inning at Cincinnati.

The Reds’ Kevin Mitchell hit a two-run homer, his 19th, in a three-run third.

Rain delayed the start of the game 1 hour 42 minutes.