Diamondbacks Can’t Stop Giants

Barry Bonds homered for the fourth consecutive game and Marquis Grissom had four hits, including a two-run homer, as the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, 10-7, on Friday night.

Bonds’ 432-foot drive deep into the right-field seats off Miguel Batista with two out in the fifth was his seventh home run in his last eight games and 29th of the season, most in the majors.

He has 642 homers, 18 behind his godfather, Willie Mays, for third place on the career list.

Bonds, who made a difficult running catch of Steve Finley’s line drive in left to end the eighth, has four homers among his seven hits in 21 at-bats against Batista.

Jason Schmidt (9-4) yielded three runs and seven hits in eight innings, striking out eight as the Giants improved to 5-1 against Arizona this season.

The Giants also increased their lead in the West Division to five games over the Diamondbacks, who have been outscored, 24-9, in losing two in a row after winning 18 of 21.

Diamondback Manager Bob Brenly and third base coach Eddie Rodriguez were ejected by plate umpire Tim McClelland during an Arizona pitching change in the seventh. Brenly angrily hurled the ball into the stands from the mound when he realized he’d been thrown out.

Grissom hit his 14th home run of the season after J.T. Snow walked leading off the third. The drive to left-center on a 2-0 pitch gave the Giants a 4-1 lead. Bonds’ solo homer in the fifth made it 5-1.

Batista (6-4) gave up five runs -- four earned -- and six hits in five innings in his first loss in eight starts. The last team to defeat Batista was San Francisco on May 21. Schmidt pitched a four-hit shutout in that game.