Bonds’ Homer Total Is at 598

Barry Bonds is two away from historic home run No. 600. He might have passed that number a long time ago if he had played his Pittsburgh years in PNC Park.

Bonds took advantage of the short right-field porch there to hit his 598th career homer, one of six San Francisco home runs, and J.T. Snow had a three-run shot and five runs batted in as the Giants roughed up the Pirates, 10-5, Sunday.

Bonds went three for four and scored three times, homering for the second game in a row. His 31st home run of the season led off the ninth inning and left him two short of joining Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only players with 600.

“Things happen so fast in my career,” Bonds said. “I remember hitting No. 400 when [Jim] Leyland was managing the Marlins, and now I’m two away from 600, and that [No. 400] doesn’t seem that long ago. Time has gone by so fast.”

Bonds has four homers in six games at PNC Park, which opened last year--nine years after he left the Leyland-managed Pirates to play in San Francisco. He hit No. 597 on Saturday night, and just missed another homer later in the game when a long drive fell at the base of the wall.

Asked if he would have liked playing his seven Pirate seasons in PNC, he said, “Oh, yeah.... This is a small ballpark.”

Snow hit a two-run double in the second against Kris Benson (4-6), then followed with a three-run homer during a five-run sixth.

After going all season without hitting consecutive homers until Saturday night, when Kent and Snow did it in an 11-6 victory, the Giants hit three in a row in the sixth.

Reggie Sanders followed Snow’s drive with his 16th, and David Bell greeted reliever Josias Manzanillo with his second of the game.

Cincinnati 15, San Diego 10--Russell Branyan homered three times and scored the go-ahead run on Brandon Larson’s ninth-inning single off Trevor Hoffman at San Diego.

Branyan hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a solo home run in the fourth off Padre starter Bobby J. Jones. Branyan then hit a two-run homer in the seventh off reliever Mike Holtz as the Reds overcame a five-run deficit to tie the score, 10-10.

With a chance to tie the major league record for homers in a game, Branyan was walked in the ninth by Hoffman (1-4) after a single by Austin Kearns.

Chicago 4, Colorado 1--Mark Prior struck out 13 in his first career complete game, pitching a five-hitter to lead the Cubs at Chicago.

Prior (5-3), in his 14th career start, took a shutout into the eighth inning. He walked two and finished the game by striking out Jack Cust for the third time on his 136th pitch.

Arizona 12, New York 7--Luis Gonzalez hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh inning off Mark Guthrie (5-1) to lift the Diamondbacks at New York. Arizona has won 11 of 13.

Ty Wigginton, recalled by the Mets from the minors earlier in the day to replace ailing Roberto Alomar at second base, was four for five with a homer and double.

Houston 5, Montreal 4--Kirk Saarloos won his fourth consecutive start and got his first career RBIs with a two-run double to lead the Astros at Montreal before 20,027 for a Gary Carter bobblehead promotion.

Florida 7, Milwaukee 2--Kevin Millar had a homer and three RBIs to lead the Marlins at Miami.