Almost Indicted Barry Bonds is Good for the San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants will now be hoping that Barry Bonds should be not indicted every day.
On Thursday night, just hours after a federal grand jury concluded its term without being asked to indict Bonds on potential perjury and tax-evasion charges, he hit his 722nd home run in the eighth inning of the Giants' 9-3 disassembling of the San Diego Padres.
Bonds' two-run homer, after Mike Piazza dropped his pop foul for an error to keep the at-bat alive, was the first of three consecutive blasts against reliever Brian Sweeney that punctuated a dominating opener of a four-game showdown for first place in the National League West. Ray Durham and Pedro Feliz hit the next two.
The second-place Giants moved within 1 1/2 games of the division lead.
Noah Lowry pitched like he did last August, when he was the league's Pitcher of the Month, and fell two outs short of completing his first shutout since Aug. 3, 2004, when he whitewashed Cincinnati for his first major-league win. In a Twilight Zone coincidence, that also was the last game in which the Giants hit three consecutive homers (J.T. Snow, Bonds and Feliz).
With one out in the ninth, Josh Barfield singled home the Padres' first run against Lowry in 19 innings going back three starts, signaling Lowry's exit from the game. He was charged with two more runs, which scored on a Dave Roberts single.
Rookie first baseman Chad Santos hit his first big-league home run, to the delight of a large rooting section that crossed the pond from Hawaii to watch him work, Randy Winn hit two doubles and the Giants pulled off a suicide squeeze.
The Giants are 3-0 and have played some taut and inspired baseball since their players-only meeting Tuesday.
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