Bonds blasts 745th homer

With his team trailing 4-0 in the fourth inning, the San Francisco slugger connected off Glavine for his 11th homer of the season to move to within 10 home runs of tying Hank Aaron as baseball's all-time leader.

The homer was the fourth for Bonds off Glavine and his first off the crafty left-hander in 10 years.

Glavine (4-1, with his first win since April 17) worked the first seven innings to get his 20th career victory over the Giants, with Billy Wagner notching the save with a perfect ninth, the lefty's seventh of the season in seven attempts.

The Mets started the game with three straight doubles and a three-run first inning against Cain (1-3).

Prince Fielder hit his 10th homer of the season, J.J. Hardy hit his ninth and extended his hitting streak to 19 games and the red-hot Milwaukee Brewers beat Washington 6-4.

Milwaukee have won five straight and is 8-1 on its current 10-game homestand, improving to 23-10 on the season, with Francisco Cordero saving 14 of those 23 wins.

The Nationals have lost seven straight and have the worst record in the majors at 9-24.

Miguel Cabrera hit his eighth homer and singled home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to give the Florida Marlins a 6-5 decision over the LA Dodgers. The game was played under a thick cloud of smoke that had blown in from Florida brush fires.

Ken Griffey Jr hit his 568th career homer but Lance Berkman went deep for the second straight night as the Astros outlasted the Reds 7-6 in Cincinnati. Houston has won three of its last four.

Over in the American League, undefeated Josh Beckett won his seventh straight start as the Boston Red Sox hit four home runs in a 9-2 pounding of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Beckett, who is one short of the club record for consecutive wins at the start of a season, gave up a home run on the first pitch he threw in the game but that was the only run he allowed in seven innings.

The Red Sox have scored 55 runs in Beckett's seven starts, almost eight per game. But Beckett has more than done his part, running up a nifty 2.57 ERA.

He is the first Red Sox pitcher in 34 years to win his first seven starts of a season, with Babe Ruth one of three Boston hurlers to start a season with victories in their first eight starts.

Rookie Dustin Pedroia and veteran Mike Lowell hit three-run homers and Kevin Youkilis and Jason Varitek belted solo shots for the Red Sox, who have won five of their last six games.

The battered Blue Jays, on the other hand, have lost seven straight games.

Alex Rodriguez hit his first home run since April 23, his 15th of the season, and Andy Pettitte pitched seven strong innings as the Yankees beat Texas 8-2 in New York.

Justin Morneau hit his second homer of the game, his eighth of the year, with two men on in the bottom of the 10th to give the Twins a 7-4 win over the White Sox, the Twins tying the game with three runs in the eighth before Morneau won it.

Omar Infante drove in a career-best four runs and Gary Sheffield hit his fourth homer in the last six games, carrying the Tigers to a 9-7 win over the Mariners in Detroit - the eighth straight triumph for the Tigers.