Bonds Hits 48th to Spark Giants

Barry Bonds hit his major league-leading 48th home run to lead off a six-run 11th inning for San Francisco and power the Giants past the Cincinnati Reds, 9-3, Tuesday night at Cincinnati.

The Giants have won 11 of 12, improving to 17-8 since the All-Star game, best in the National League. They remained a game behind the Dodgers in the NL West.

Bonds singled and doubled home runs as San Francisco pulled ahead, 3-0, after three innings. He led off the 11th with a homer off Danny Graves (5-3), making him the fastest to reach 48 in major league history.

Andres Galarraga added a two-run homer and Marvin Benard had a solo shot in the 11th for the Giants.

Kirk Rueter made an emergency start for the Giants in place of Jason Schmidt, who had flu. Rueter gave up two runs and five hits in six innings.

Florida 10, Arizona 4--Matt Clement took a one-hit shutout into the eighth inning and Mike Lowell drove in four runs for the Marlins at Florida.

Clement (7-7) gave up three hits and three runs in 7 2/3 innings.

Cliff Floyd had three hits and scored three runs for Florida.

Atlanta 6, Houston 5--Greg Maddux set the NL record for consecutive innings without a walk and picked up the victory at Atlanta.

Maddux (15-6) pitched six innings to extend his streak without a walk to 70 1/3 innings, surpassing the record of 68 set by Christy Mathewson in 1913 and matched by Randy Jones in 1976.

New York 3, Milwaukee 0--Bruce Chen gave up two hits over seven innings in his home debut for New York and Joe McEwing hit a two-run pinch-hit triple in the seventh.

Chen (5-5), acquired from Philadelphia on July 27, struck out seven and walked two. Armando Benitez earned his 26th save.

St. Louis 3, Montreal 1--Darryl Kile pitched a four-hitter for his 28th career complete game, and Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds homered for the Cardinals at Montreal.

Kile (12-7) didn’t give up a hit until pitcher Javier Vazquez doubled with one out in the sixth. Jose Vidro’s single in the inning drove in Montreal’s run.

Chicago 5, Colorado 4--Ricky Gutierrez scored the winning run in the ninth on a botched rundown at Chicago.

With runners on first and second and one out, pinch-hitter Joe Girardi singled to left field. Gutierrez fell coming around third base and retreated.

But Girardi was caught in a rundown between first and second. Gutierrez broke for home during the rundown and scored ahead of the throw.

Philadelphia 7, San Diego 3--Brandon Duckworth gave up three runs and six hits in six innings at Philadelphia to win his major league debut.

Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell and Scott Rolen homered for Philadelphia.

Around the League

Chicago’s Kerry Wood will miss his scheduled start Thursday against Colorado because of soreness in his right shoulder. . . . Montreal’s Fernando Tatis had knee surgery and will miss the rest of the season. . . . Pedro Astacio will miss his scheduled start for Houston today because of a mild sprain in his right triceps. . . . Cincinnati shortstop Barry Larkin will have hernia surgery and pitcher Pete Harnisch will have exploratory elbow surgery. Both will miss the rest of the season.