Snow Hits Three Homers for Giants

J.T. Snow has seen too many of his long drives at his home park bounce off the wall, or fall softly into outfielders’ gloves for outs.

That’s not a problem in Philadelphia’s new ballpark.

Snow had his first three-homer game, scored a career-best five runs and had four runs batted in, and Barry Bonds hit career homer No. 689 to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 16-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.

“It might be a better place to hit than Coors Field,” Snow said. “We deserve it. We play in the toughest park to hit.”

Snow hit a two-run shot off Brett Myers in the first inning, a solo shot in the fifth and another solo homer in the seventh -- both off Amaury Telemaco -- giving him nine this season. Snow also walked twice.

“I wasn’t going for the fences in any at-bat,” Snow said. “I was just trying to hit it hard and drive the ball like I do every at-bat.”

A.J. Pierzynski homered and drove in five runs, and Marquis Grissom also homered for the Giants, who moved one game behind the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres in the National League wild-card race.

San Francisco’s six homers were its most since getting seven on July 2, 2002, at Colorado. The Giants also had a season-high 18 hits.

“Our park and San Diego are probably the two toughest parks to hit in,” Snow said. “If San Diego is a 10 on the hard scale, this is a one or a two.”

Snow had a chance at four homers, but struck out swinging against Roberto Hernandez in the ninth. He said he wasn’t going to walk and went up hacking.

Bonds went two for two, scored three runs, had two RBIs and was walked three times, twice intentionally. The two intentional walks gave him a major league-high 86, and helped the Giants break their 2-year-old major league record with 104 intentional walks.

Bonds also moved into 14th place on the career RBI list with 1,814, passing Frank Robinson.