Bonds Homers in Giants’ Victory

Barry Bonds hit his 666th homer through a swirling mist and over the center-field wall, and the San Francisco Giants held on to beat the San Diego Padres, 4-3, on Monday night at San Francisco to end a season-worst four-game losing streak.

Bonds has homered in six consecutive games with an at-bat -- he was intentionally walked as pinch-hitter Wednesday -- and connected for the first time this season against the Padres after failing to hit a homer in three games at Petco Park in the season’s first week.

He got his major league-leading eighth homer one batter after Marquis Grissom hit a two-run shot to left, the first time this season the Giants have hit back-to-back homers.

Bonds, who homered four times in a weekend series against the Dodgers, lined out to right in the first against David Wells (0-2). His solo shot in the third made it 4-0. Bonds walked on five pitches in the fifth, then walked on a full count in the eighth after fouling away three pitches.

Chicago 8, Cincinnati 1 -- Derrek Lee hit a grand slam, leading Matt Clement and the Cubs at Chicago.

With Chicago leading 3-1 in the seventh inning, Lee connected off reliever Ryan Wagner, sending a drive into the right-field bleachers. It was Lee’s fourth grand slam and first with the Cubs.

Clement (2-1) settled down after a rocky first inning to give up one run and four hits in 6 1/3 innings.

New York 4, Montreal 1 -- Tyler Yates shut down the punchless Expos on five hits over 5 2/3 inning at New York for his first career victory.

Karim Garcia and Ty Wigginton homered off Tomo Ohka and the Mets rebounded from three losses against Pittsburgh to send the Expos (2-11) to their eighth straight defeat, Montreal’s worst losing streak since 2000.

Montreal has only 20 runs this season, getting shut out four times and scoring one run in three other games.

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Chipper Jones avoided the disabled list, but the Atlanta Braves’ outfielder is expected to miss at least five days with a hamstring injury. Brave officials said Jones responded well enough to treatment to keep him from being put on the disabled list for the first time since 1996. He accompanied the team on a 12-game trip, the longest of the season.