Bonds’ Homer Streak Ends at Seven

Barry Bonds missed out on adding another record to his remarkable resume.

Bonds failed to tie the major league mark for consecutive games with a home run Wednesday night when his streak ended at seven games in the San Diego Padres’ 11-0 victory over the Giants at San Francisco.

Jake Peavy (1-1) struck out Bonds looking in the second inning. Bonds also walked on four pitches twice. He wound up one short of the record for consecutive games with a home run -- shared by Dale Long (1956), Don Mattingly (1987) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1993).

Bonds was replaced in left field by Dustan Mohr in the eighth.

Brian Giles homered for the second straight game and drove in four runs. Mark Loretta hit a three-run homer, singled and scored two runs, and Terrence Long had three hits with a triple for the Padres, who had a season-high 17 hits.

Bonds’ next homer, No. 668, will be the 1,000th for the Bonds family. His late father, Bobby, hit 332 home runs in a 14-year career. The next highest father-son total is 636 by Ken Griffey Sr. (152) and Ken Griffey Jr. (484).

Bonds hit eight homers during the seven-game stretch, an NL record for the most in seven games. Mattingly holds the major league record with nine in seven games.

Bonds homered in six straight games twice in 2001, when he set the single-season record of 73 homers.

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Chicago 12, Pittsburgh 1 -- Corey Patterson had five hits and the Cubs scored eight runs in the first inning of a victory at Pittsburgh.

Sergio Mitre pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win and the Cubs had another big night on offense. Patterson went five for six with a first-inning double and an RBI, and Moises Alou and Derrek Lee had three RBIs each.

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Atlanta 9, Cincinnati 5 -- Andruw Jones and Rafael Furcal homered in the 10th inning, rallying the Braves at Cincinnati.

Marcus Giles tied it with a two-out single in the ninth off closer Danny Graves, and Jones and Furcal provided the final disappointment for the Reds, who blew three leads in the late innings.

Jones led off the 10th against Brian Reith (0-1) with his second homer, and Furcal added a three-run shot off Phil Norton. John Smoltz got the last three outs.

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Milwaukee 10, Arizona 6 -- Scott Podsednik hit a go-ahead triple that chased Randy Johnson during an eight-run seventh inning and the Brewers rallied past the Diamondbacks at Milwaukee.

Danny Bautista’s three-run homer in the top of the seventh put Arizona ahead, 4-2. Keith Ginter opened the bottom half with a double and capped the inning with a two-run homer, sending the Diamondbacks to their fourth straight loss.

Reliever Ben Ford (1-0) got his first major league victory despite allowing Bautista’s homer on his first pitch. Johnson (1-2) struck out 11 in 6 2/3 innings. He gave up six runs on five hits and three walks.

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St. Louis 12, Houston 6 -- Jim Edmonds hit a grand slam for one of the Cardinals’ five home runs in a victory at Houston.

Reggie Sanders hit a three-run homer, Scott Rolen had a two-run shot, and Ray Lankford and Marlon Anderson added solo home runs for the Cardinals, who beat the Astros for only the fourth time in 12 games.

Matt Morris (3-1) held Houston to three runs and four hits in six innings. Tim Redding (0-3) gave up eight runs in his third start to raise his earned-run average to 10.22 from 6.23.

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Montreal 2, New York 1 -- Livan Hernandez pitched into the eighth inning, center fielder Brad Wilkerson threw out Karim Garcia at the plate later in the inning and the run-deprived Expos edged the Mets at New York for the second game in a row.

Orlando Cabrera and Jose Vidro had run-producing hits for the Expos off Tom Glavine. Wilkerson scored on Cabrera’s hit after center fielder Mike Cameron let the ball get away.