Bonds' blast caps Giant win

The Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro moved past Mickey Mantle on the homer list.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Barry Bonds hit his 675th homer and capped a four-run 11th inning with an RBI single, leading the San Francisco Giants past the Baltimore Orioles 9-6 on Saturday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.
The Giants overcame two home runs by Rafael Palmeiro, who moved past Mickey Mantle into 11th place on the career list.
It was only the third time in baseball history that two players with 500 homers connected in the same game. Willie Mays and Ernie Banks did it in 1970, and Mays and Aaron both homered on May 8, 1971.
Climbing
Bonds' solo homer off Rodrigo Lopez in the third inning left him 39 short of second-place Babe Ruth and 80 behind career leader Hank Aaron. He went 3-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
Palmeiro has 537 homers, one more than Mantle. His second homer, a solo shot off Scott Eyre that traveled an estimated 434 feet to dead center, tied it at 5 in the eighth.
Palmeiro came in with a season-long 11-game homerless drought and had only one in his previous 22 games.
A.J. Pierzynski led off the 11th with his fourth homer, a drive to right-center against Jorge Julio (1-2), who allowed only one home run in 22 innings this season. Marquis Grissom added a two-run single, and Bonds chased Julio with a single to left, foiling a shift to the right side by the Baltimore infield.
Matt Herges (2-2), who worked the final three innings and gave up a sacrifice fly to Brian Roberts in the 11th, began his stint by getting out of a bases-loaded, no outs jam in the ninth.
Main attraction
With Bonds serving as the main attraction, the game drew 48,869 fans -- the largest crowd of the season and sixth-largest in the 13-year history of Camden Yards. Five of the ballpark's six biggest crowds were for interleague games.
SAN FRANBALTIMORE
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Linden rf1110Mora 3b6110
Mohr dh5100Tejada ss5001
Grssom cf5010RPlmo 1b5223
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Herges p0000Raines pr0000
Bonds lf6232Mchado c1000
Alfonzo 3b6122Surhoff rf5010
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Totals459129Totals416106
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Baltimore00310001001--6
DP--San Francisco 1. LOB--San Francisco 8, Baltimore 8. 2B--Mora (17), Matos (11). HR--Bonds (17), Alfonzo (3), Pierzynski (4), RPalmeiro 2 (9), Bigbie (7). SB--Surhoff (2), Bigbie (6), Hairston Jr. (9). S--Hairston Jr.. SF--BRoberts.
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Eyre1-311110
FRodriguez1-310010
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Baltimore
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Julio L,1-2154412
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FRodriguez pitched to 3 batters in the 9th. HBP--by Hermanson (Hairston Jr.). WP--RLopez. Umpires--Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Bruce Froemming; Second, James Hoye; Third, Mike Winters. T--3:56. A--48,869.
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