Giants's slugger adds to home run record with 757th

SAN FRANCISCO: Barry Bonds hit home run No 757 and San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy picked up victory No. 1,000 with the Giants' 5-0 defeat of Washington on Wednesday.

Bonds hit a two-run homer in the first inning, one night after breaking Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record with his 756th.

Bonds received a standing ovation before and after the home run, his 23rd of the season.

The Giants slugger walked in the fourth inning and ground out to the shortstop in the sixth.

San Francisco starter Matt Cain (4-12) hit his first career home run in his 112th at-bat and allowed three hits in six innings. Jack Taschner pitched two innings and Vinnie Chulk finished the four-hitter for the team's eighth shutout this season. The Nationals were blanked for the ninth time.

Bochy became the 55th skipper in major league history to reach the 1,000-win mark. He is sixth among active managers.

Washington's Tim Redding (1-3) allowed four runs in seven innings.

The Colorado Rockies pounded out a season-high 23 hits to crush the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers 19-4 on Wednesday.

The hard-hitting Rockies tied a franchise record with 11 extra-base hits and had season bests for hits and runs in moving into third place in the NL West with their third straight win.

The slumping Brewers suffered a fourth consecutive game.

"Today's like one of those snowball days where it just keeps going and hits keep coming," Colorado outfielder Ryan Spilborghs told reporters. "We're almost fighting each other to get to the bat rack on days like this."

Third baseman Garrett Atkins went 4-for-4 and equaled a personal best by driving in six runs.

He had run-scoring doubles in the first and fourth innings, singled home one run in the second and two in the third and had a sacrifice fly in the sixth.

"It just seemed like you'd turn your head, look away and get a glass of water and then hear a loud crack and someone else was rounding first, heading to second," Atkins told reporters.

The Rockies sent 10 batters to the plate in both the second and fourth innings, scoring seven runs in the second and five in the fourth.

The victory was their eighth in 11 games and they are a Major League-best 21-5 at home since June 2.

"They hit good pitches, they hit bad pitches," Milwaukee catcher Damian Miller told reporters.

"That's a good hitting team and when you make mistakes, they make you pay."

Juan Uribe blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the 13th inning to guide the Chicago White Sox to a 6-4 victory against the Central Division-leading Cleveland Indians.

Uribe's homer to center field followed a single by Scott Podsednik with one out to give Chicago its sixth victory in 10 games.

The winning hit enabled Uribe to overcome a 12th inning error that led to a brief 4-3 lead for the Indians before Chicago tied the game in the bottom of the inning.

Agencies

(China Daily 08/10/2007 page23)