Bonds Climbs List With 3 Homers

Barry Bonds hit three home runs for the second time in his career Saturday night, pushing him into 13th place on the all-time list and powering the San Francisco Giants to a 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves in a rain-delayed game at Atlanta.

Bonds hit three solo drives against three Atlanta pitchers, giving him 514 homers overall and 20 this season. He is tied with Luis Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the National League lead.

The start of the game was delayed 1 hour 16 minutes because of rain. Another storm moved through in the bottom of the sixth, forcing another stoppage of 95 minutes.

The game resumed one minute after midnight and finally ended at 1:07 a.m.--more than six hours after its scheduled start of 7:05 p.m. EDT.

After the second rain delay, the Braves invited the remaining fans--a couple of thousand out of the announced crowd of 42,789--to sit as close as they wanted. The hearty group filled in the first dozen or so rows behind home plate.

Tim Worrell (1-0) picked up the victory despite giving up a solo homer to Javy Lopez only two pitches after play resumed in the sixth.

That gave the Braves a 3-2 lead, but it was short-lived. Jose Cabrera (3-1) failed to get an out while facing four hitters in the seventh.

Bonds led off with his second homer of the game, a towering 442-foot drive into the right-field seats. Eric Davis put the Giants ahead to stay with a run-scoring single.

Bonds homered again with two out in the eighth against Jason Marquis, giving him five homers in the last three games. His other three-homer game came on Aug. 2, 1994, against the Cincinnati Reds.

Bonds also has 47 multihomer games, putting him ninth on that list. Before Saturday, he was tied with Harmon Killebrew and Mickey Mantle.

Bonds led off the third with a 416-foot drive into the right-field seats on a3-and-2 pitch from Atlanta starter Odalis Perez.

That broke a tie with Mel Ott for the No. 15 spot on the all-time list, reached a night earlier, and pushed Bonds into a tie with Banks and Mathews at 512. The tie didn’t last long.

Next up: Willie McCovey and Ted Williams, tied with 521 homers.

San Diego 20, Montreal 7--Rickey Henderson became the second player to score 2,200 runs and Bubba Trammell had a career-high six runs batted in at Montreal as the Padres matched the highest-scoring output in their history.

It was also the most runs given up in Expo franchise history. The previous worst came in a 19-6 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on May 1, 1989. The Padres defeated the Florida Marlins, 20-12, on July 27, 1996.

Trammell hit a two-run double in the fifth inning, had an RBI grounder in the sixth and capped a five-run seventh inning with a three-run homer to make the score 14-7.

Henderson singled in the seventh and scored his milestone run on right fielder Vladimir Guerrero’s fielding error. He added a two-run home run, his fifth of the season, in the eighth for his 2,942nd hit. He also had a sacrifice fly in the second.

Henderson has 2,201 runs, 44 behind Ty Cobb.

Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 1--Jimmy Anderson pitched eight shutout innings and helped himself with a run-scoring single against Brewer starter Ben Sheets at Pittsburgh.

The Pirates had lost six in a row and 10 of 11 until Anderson (3-3) retired the final 10 batters he faced. Mike Williams came on in the ninth and immediately lost the shutout when Jeromy Burnitz hit his 13th homer.

Florida 1, Colorado 0--Brad Penny (4-0) gave up three hits in 7 2/3 shutout innings and Kevin Millar hit a home run at Miami.

The Marlins have won four in a row and six of their last seven, while the Rockies have lost six of seven.

Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 2--Robert Person pitched a four-hitter and Doug Glanville hit a home run for the Phillies in a matchup of division leaders at Philadelphia.

Person (4-4), who is pitching under appeal of a six-game suspension for hitting Reggie Sanders of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a pitch last week, gave up only two hits until J.D. Drew hit a two-run homer in the seventh.

The Phillies, who tied the Chicago Cubs for worst record in the majors last year, have won their last three games and have the best record in the National League at 25-16.

Houston 6, Cincinnati 3--Jeff Bagwell and Lance Berkman hit consecutive home runs to lead the Astros at Houston.

Wade Miller (6-1) gave up two runs, five hits and three walks in seven innings as the Astros moved into a tie with the Cardinals for first place in the Central Division.

Chicago 6, Arizona 2--Kerry Wood got his first victory since April 27 and Sammy Sosa hit a two-run triple at Chicago as the Cubs ended an eight-game losing streak.

Wood (2-4), still battling control problems as he did during a three-game losing streak, gave up five hits and two runs while walking six and striking out six in six-plus innings.