Two Homers for Bonds in Victory

Barry Bonds homered twice, and rookie Noah Lowry carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning on the way to his first major league victory in the Giants’ 11-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night at San Francisco.

Bonds matched a season high with five runs batted in, raising his home-run total to 29 this season and 687 in his career. J.T. Snow matched a career high with four hits. He had a homer, single and two doubles for the Giants, who had lost four of five.

Bonds hit a three-run homer in the third inning, sending the first pitch he saw from Cory Lidle (6-10) into the right-field arcade. Bonds connected again in the seventh. Snow homered leading off the inning, then Bonds splashed a 2-and-2 pitch into the waters of McCovey Cove. Pedro Feliz followed with his 15th homer, chasing Lidle.

Lidle became the 406th pitcher to give up a homer to Bonds, who’s third on baseball’s home-run list behind Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714).

Bonds, who was intentionally walked in the fifth, has 66 multihomer games, including two this season. It was the first time the Giants hit three consecutive homers since Snow, Reggie Sanders and David Bell did it on Aug. 4, 2002, at Pittsburgh.

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Philadelphia 5, San Diego 2 -- Pinch-hitter Chase Utley drove in the go-ahead run in a three-run seventh, and Brett Myers pitched six strong innings at San Diego for his first win in nearly seven weeks.

Brian Lawrence (11-8) held the Phillies to three hits through six innings. But in the seventh, he gave up a one-out single to Pat Burrell and walked Mike Lieberthal with two out before being lifted for Scott Linebrink.

Marlon Byrd greeted Linebrink with a single that scored Burrell to tie the score, 1-1.

Utley then pinch-hit for Myers and blooped a single to right, scoring Lieberthal with Byrd going to third. Brian Giles’ throw to third hit the sliding Byrd and bounced into foul territory, allowing him to score for a 3-1 lead.

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Montreal 10, St. Louis 6 -- Tony Batista hit a grand slam in the 12th inning after tying the score with a two-run shot in the ninth inning at St. Louis.

Albert Pujols became the first player to hit at least 30 home runs in his each of his first four seasons when he hit a two-run homer to straightaway center off Montreal spot starter Sun-Woo Kim with one out in the first inning.

New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hit 29 home runs in his rookie season, then hit at least 30 in his next five. Mark McGwire played only 18 games in 1986 for Oakland, then hit more than 30 homers in his first four full seasons.

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Arizona 5, Florida 3 -- Danny Bautista hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth as the Diamondbacks won at home for the first time in nearly a month.

Arizona had lost 11 home games in a row, a team record.

Shea Hillenbrand also homered for the Diamondbacks, who won for only the third time in 22 games overall.

Paul Lo Duca was three for three with two walks and is four for five since joining the Marlins. He scored the game’s first run in the fourth when he singled and came home on Miguel Cabrera’s single.

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Houston 3, Atlanta 2 -- Roger Clemens pitched seven strong innings on the eve of his 42nd birthday but was denied the win by his bullpen before the Astros rebounded at Houston to stop the Braves’ five-game winning streak.

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Chicago 5, Colorado 3 -- Kerry Wood pitched eight innings despite a shaky start, and Derrek Lee hit his 21st homer in a five-run second at Denver.

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New York 12, Milwaukee 3 -- Al Leiter limited the Brewers to one run over seven innings, and the New York Mets scored five times in the sixth and ninth innings at Milwaukee.