SAN FRANCISCO – Rich Aurilia and Jose Cruz Jr. each homered twice and Edgardo Alfonzo hit his first home run for San Francisco, leading the unbeaten Giants over the San Diego Padres 7-4 Monday in their home opener.

At 7-0, the Giants are off to their best start since moving to San Francisco, topping the 6-0 mark that began their pennant-winning 2002 season. When the franchise was in New York, the Giants started 7-0 in 1930 and 9-0 in 1918.

Aurilia hit his second homer in the eighth off Mike Bynum (0-1) to break a 4-all tie. Alfonzo, who signed as a free agent during the offseason, came up two batters later and also homered. Aurilia had his fifth multihomer game, the first since Sept. 4, 2001, at Arizona.

Cruz hit a solo shot in his first at-bat, and his two-run homer in his next plate appearance stayed just fair of the foul pole in left. He singled in the fifth.

Braves 3, Marlins 0

ATLANTA – The Braves’ outfield had its own home-run derby Monday.

Gary Sheffield, Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones hit consecutive home runs in the sixth inning off Carl Pavano, leading the Atlanta Braves over the Florida Marlins 3-0.

Pavano took a two-hit shutout into the sixth, then allowed Sheffield’s second home run in two days, a 405-foot drive into the left-field stands.

Chipper Jones followed with his first home run of the season, and Andruw Jones hit an opposite-field shot to left on an 0-2 pitch.

Last year, Pavano allowed 19 homers in 136 innings for Montreal and Florida.

Russ Ortiz (1-1) won his first game for Atlanta, combining with three relievers on a five-hitter. Ortiz, obtained during the offseason from San Francisco, allowed three hits, struck out three and walked three, throwing just 49 of 90 pitches for strikes.

He was pitching on three days’ rest for the first time in his major league career.

Ortiz threw 25 pitches in the second inning, loading the bases with two outs on a bloop single and two walks. He escaped the jam when Pavano (0-2) grounded a 3-1 pitch to first. The ball bounced off the glove of Robert Fick to second baseman Marcus Giles, who threw him out.

D-backs 6, Dodgers 4

LOS ANGELES – Lyle Overbay hit his first major league home run, a two-run drive in the 12th inning Monday that gave the Arizona Diamondbacks a 6-4 victory over Los Angeles in the Dodgers’ home opener.

Overbay, a 26-year-old rookie who had two hits in his previous 15 at-bats, pinch hit for Matt Mantei (2-0) with two outs and sent a pitch from Andy Ashby (0-1) into the right-field pavilion. Craig Counsell had singled leading off the inning.

Scott Service, Arizona’s sixth pitcher, got three outs for his first save this year and the 16th of his career. The Diamondbacks overcame a three-run deficit and stopped a four-game losing streak.

The decision was the first as a reliever for Ashby, the sixth Los Angeles pitcher. The 35-year-old right-hander has made 273 big league starts and has appeared in relief 15 times, including twice this year.

A sellout crowd of 53,819 – the largest opening-day attendance in Dodger Stadium history – came out to see LA’s No. 2 team. The Dodgers aren’t used to having the Anaheim Angels, now World Series champions – block their spotlight.

Adrian Beltre and Fred McGriff homered for Los Angeles.

Counsell hit a two-out, RBI triple off Guillermo Mota later in the seventh and Luis Gonzalez tied the game with his first homer of the year, a drive off Tom Martin leading off the eighth.

It was Gonzalez’s third hit of the game and first RBI this year.

The Diamondbacks took a 4-3 lead off Paul Quantrill in the 10th on Steve Finley’s two-out, run-scoring single, but the Dodgers tied it in their half when Brian Jordan hit a two-out, RBI single off Mantei.

The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead off Elmer Dessens in the third on Paul Lo Duca’s two-out run-scoring single after Dave Roberts beat out an infield hit to keep the inning alive.

Celebrating his 24th birthday, Beltre hit a 3-1 pitch into the lower seats in the left-field corner with two outs in the fourth for his first homer.

McGriff hit a two-out, full-count pitch into the right-field pavilion in the sixth for his second homer of the season and the 480th of his career to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead.

But they couldn’t make it stand up.

Brown threw 99 pitches in his second strong effort of the season – both against Arizona. The 38-year-old right-hander allowed one run and five hits in 6 1-3 innings.

Dessens gave up six hits and three runs in six innings.

The game marked the beginning of the 42nd season at Dodger Stadium, which opened in 1962 – four years after the Dodgers moved west from Brooklyn. It lasted 3 hours, 54 minutes and was the longest home-opener by innings in Los Angeles.

The Dodgers are 24-22 in home openers since the move.

Notes: The Diamondbacks placed C Rod Barajas on the 15-day disabled list and recalled C Robby Hammock from Triple-A Tucson. Barajas strained his left hamstring Sunday in Colorado. … Ceremonial first pitches were thrown by former Dodgers stars Ron Cey, Steve Garvey and Bill Russell, who formed three-quarters of the infield that stayed together a record eight-plus seasons starting in 1973. Davey Lopes, the fourth member, is a coach with San Diego. … Melissa Manchester sang the national anthem and four U.S. Navy FA-18 Hornet fighter jets flew over before the game. … The Diamondbacks stopped a nine-game road losing streak dating to last year.

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