Bonds inspires Giants

Barry Bonds has hit 573 career home runs

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National League

Barry Bonds hit his major league-best sixth home run as the San Francisco Giants sent the Milwaukee Brewers to their fifth straight loss with a 5-1 victory.

Bonds tied Harmon Killebrew for sixth place on the all-time list with the 573rd of his career, a three-run shot off Brewers starter Ben Sheets in the third inning.

Kurt Ainsworth got the win, scattering four hits and one walk over seven innings without allowing an earned run.

Japanese sensation Kazuhisa Ishii combined with two relievers to two-hit the San Diego Padres in a 3-0 Los Angeles Dodgers victory.

Ishii turned in his second straight masterpiece, throwing six shut-out innings and striking out five at Qualcomm Stadium.

Ishii was making his second Major League start

Craig Counsell had three runs driven in and Curt Schilling became the third NL pitcher to own three wins as the Arizona Diamondbacks downed the Colorado Rockies 8-3.

Schilling fanned five while allowing nine hits and three earned runs in seven innings.

Sammy Sosa hit the longest home run in PNC Park history, powering the Chicago Cubs to a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Sosa belted a David Williams pitch an estimated 484 feet over the centre-field wall, snapping a sixth-inning tie with the longest drive in the ballpark's two-year existence.

Scoreless innings

Atlanta's Greg Maddux pitched five scoreless innings in his first start of the season and Chipper Jones accounted for the game's only runs with a two-run home run in the first inning as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Florida Marlins 2-0.

Maddux, who missed his first two scheduled starts with a pinched nerve in his lower back, struck out four while walking two and allowing four hits on 76 pitches.

Jim Edmonds hit two solo shots and J.D. Drew added a two-run drive as the St Louis Cardinals defeated the Houston Astros 7-3.

Matt Morris distributed six singles, four walks and two earned runs over six innings.

Jeff D'Amico threw eight shutout innings as the New York Mets moved into first place in the NL East with a 2-1 win over the Montreal Expos.

D'Amico gave up three hits and two walks while striking out eight in his Mets debut at Shea Stadium. New York improved to 6-4 and broke a first-place tie with the Expos at the top of the division.

Juan Encarnacion hit his third home run in as many games as the Cincinnati Reds rode a six-run seventh-inning to an 8-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Encarnacion had two runs batted in and two runs scored.

American League

Tim Hudson pitched seven sparkling innings and Miguel Tejada had three hits, including a home run, as the Oakland Athletics sent the Anaheim Angels tumbling to their fifth consecutive defeat.

Hudson improved to 9-1 lifetime versus the Angels, allowing nine hits, one earned run and one walk while striking out five.

The Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in their home opener.

Brad Radke hurled 6.2 innings, allowing eight hits and two earned runs and relievers J.C. Romero and Eddie Guardado fanned five of the last seven Tigers hitters to make sure of the win.

Radke delighted a crowd of 48,244 at the Metrodome

Jeff Thome and Omar Vizquel each homered as the Cleveland Indians won their ninth straight game, 3-1 over the Kansas City Royals.

The Indians own the longest winning streak in baseball and already lead the Central Division by four games over the Twins.

Darren Oliver continued his mastery of the New York Yankees as the Boston Red Sox prevailed 3-2 for their third straight win.

Oliver, making his first start of the season and his first appearance since opening day last week, pitched 5.2 innings, striking out four and scattering five hits and three walks to improve to 6-1 lifetime versus New York.

Carlos Delgado, Felipe Lopez and Raul Mondesi each drove in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays doubled the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 14-7.

Ruben Sierra hit a first-inning grand slam to spark the Seattle Mariners to a 7-3 win over former team, the Texas Rangers.

Sierra, who belted his first homer of the year, played more than eight seasons in Texas from 1986-92 and 2000-01 before moving onto Seattle in the off-season.

Mark Buehrle allowed two hits and one earned run over seven innings as the Chicago White Sox won their home opener 5-2 versus the Baltimore Orioles in front of 41,128 at Comiskey Park.

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Friday's Major League Baseball results:

American League

Chicago 5-2 Baltimore
Boston 3-2 NY Yankees
Cleveland 3-1 Kansas City
Toronto 14-7 Tampa Bay
Seattle 7-3 TEXAS
Minnesota 4-2 Detroit
Oakland 5-1 Anaheim

National League

Cincinnati 8-5 Philadelphia
Atlanta 2-0 Florida
Chicago 7-3 Pittsburgh
NY Mets 2-1 Montreal
St Louis 7-3 Houston
Arizona 8-3 Colorado
Los Angeles 3-0 San Diego
San Francisco 5-1 Milwaukee

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