NL WEST Resurgent Grissom leads Giants

The 36-year-old had four hits, including a homer, in the 10-7 win.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Marquis Grissom is proving that a baseball player is never too old to learn, especially from Barry Bonds.
The 36-year-old Grissom had four hits, including a two-run home run, and Bonds homered for the fourth consecutive game Friday night to help the San Francisco Giants open their three-game series against Arizona with a 10-7 victory.
The victory boosted the Giants' lead in the NL West to five games over the second-place Diamondbacks.
"You lose three here, it's a different ball game when we come back after the All-Star break," Grissom said. "If we can broaden the gap, that's fine. If not, we've still got to play good hard, competitive baseball."
Grissom is hitting .316 with 14 home runs and 47 RBIs this season, and he credits much of his success to Bonds.
"He's helped me so much this year it ain't been funny, as far as the mental part of the game, just the focus, trying not to give away any at bats," Grissom said. "He's been a big part of my success the first half."
Catching fire
Bonds' 432-foot drive deep into the right-field seats off Miguel Batista with two outs in the fifth was his seventh home run in his last eight games and 29th of the season, most in the majors.
Bonds has 642 homers, 18 behind his godfather, Willie Mays, for third place on the career list.
"Willie Mays better start coming to our games more often," manager Felipe Alou said.
Bonds, who made a tough running catch of Steve Finley's line drive in left to end the eighth, has four homers among his seven hits in 21 at-bats against Batista.
Jason Schmidt (9-4) allowed three runs on seven hits in eight innings, striking out eight and walking two as the Giants improved to 5-1 against Arizona this season.
"Boy, Jason Schmidt, I'll tell you what, he's legit," Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly said. "This guy is one of the best pitchers in the game.
"His command was tremendous. He was very competitive out there on the mound. Once he left the ballgame, I think we all breathed a sigh of relief."
Arizona has been outscored 24-9 in losing two in a row after winning 18 of 21.
Felix Rodriguez got one out for his second save.
Ejection
Brenly and third base coach Eddie Rodriguez were ejected by plate umpire Tim McClelland during an Arizona pitching change in the seventh.
Brenly angrily hurled the ball into the stands from the mound when he realized he'd been thrown out.
He wouldn't talk about the ejection except to say the ball he threw was "a four-seamer."
Grissom hit his 14th home run of the season after J.T. Snow walked leading off the third. The drive to left-center on a 2-0 pitch put San Francisco up 4-1. Bonds' solo homer in the fifth made it 5-1.
Batista (6-4) allowed five runs, four earned, on six hits in five innings in his first loss in eight starts.
"He made some mistakes over the heart of the plate," Brenly said. "There were some guys we felt that if we pitched them the right way we could get them out, and he wasn't able to make some of those pitches."
The last team to beat Batista was San Francisco on May 21. Schmidt pitched a four-hit shutout in that game.
The Giants scored twice in the first when Jose Cruz Jr. singled to center and the ball got past Finley for a two-base error. Cruz also had a sacrifice fly in San Francisco's two-run seventh and walked with the bases loaded for another RBI in the three-run ninth.