CINCINNATI – Reds manager Dave Miley walked Barry Bonds again, and paid for it again.

Bonds led off the 10th with an intentional walk, advanced on Edgardo Alfonzo’s double and came home on Deivi Cruz’s sacrifice fly, giving the San Francisco Giants a 7-6 victory Sunday over Cincinnati.

Miley chose to walk Bonds intentionally in the series opener to face Pedro Feliz, whose two-run homer set up a 6-1 victory on Friday night.

Bonds was 0-for-4, extending his slump to 0-for-15, when he led off the 10th against Danny Graves (1-3) and got another intentional walk. Alfonzo followed with his double down the line, his third hit of the game, to beat the strategy again.

Jim Brower (1-2) got Ryan Freel to ground out with the bases loaded in the ninth, keeping it tied.

The Giants blew three leads, the last of them in the ninth when Matt Herges failed to hold a 6-5 lead. Barry Larkin tied it with a sacrifice fly.

Cubs 5, Rockies 4

CHICAGO – Corey Patterson hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the 13th inning Sunday to give the Chicago Cubs a 5-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies.

Derrek Lee singled in the 13th off Jeff Fassero (0-2), moved up on Michael Barrett’s sacrifice and after Ramon Martinez was walked intentionally, the Cubs let reliever Glendon Rusch bat.

Rusch dropped down another sacrifice to put runners at second and third before Fassero intentionally walked Damian Jackson to load the bases.

Patterson, who had struck out three times, then drove Fassero’s pitch to deep right-center to end a game that was delayed three times by rain.

Cardinals 5, Expos 2

MONTREAL – Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds homered, and Chris Carpenter pitched eight impressive innings in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 5-2 victory over the Montreal Expos.

Carpenter (3-1) scattered four hits and struck out four to win his second straight decision. Jason Isringhausen pitched the ninth for his fifth save in six opportunities.

The Cardinals avoided being swept for the first time this season in a three-game series on the road, and improved to an NL-best 10-5 away from home. St. Louis split a six-game road trip, which began in Philadelphia.

Pujols hit a towering two-run shot – his ninth of the season – off Claudio Vargas (2-2) in the fourth to give the Cardinals a 2-1 lead.

Astros 2, Braves 1

ATLANTA – The Houston Astros made the most of their hits. Andy Pettitte won a pitching duel with Russ Ortiz and the first-place Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Sunday, scoring the tiebreaking run when backup Orlando Palmeiro walked with the bases loaded.

Pettitte (3-1) allowed just two hits and a run in six innings. He has won all three starts since coming off the disabled list and improved to 4-0 in his career against the Braves, who lost for the fourth time in five games.

Houston is heading in the opposite direction. The Astros have won nine of 11 and lead what figures to be a hotly contested race in the NL Central.

Mets 6, Brewers 5

NEW YORK – Kaz Matsui hit a game-winning double in the 11th inning after not starting for the first time this season, lifting the New York Mets to a 6-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.

Matsui, who had started 1,143 consecutive games in Japan and his first 30 with the Mets, entered as a pinch runner in the eighth inning and scored as New York rallied from a 5-3 deficit to tie it.

In the 11th, Matsui drove a ball over the head of center fielder Scott Podsednik to score Todd Zeile with the winning run and help the Mets avert a weekend sweep.

Ben Ford (1-1) walked Zeile with two outs in the 11th and then gave up an infield single to Karim Garcia before Matsui’s hit. Matsui has been in a slump recently, as his average slipped to under .235.

Dodgers 9, Pirates 7

PITTSBURGH – Olmedo Saenz hit a two-run, pinch-hit homer in the 14th and the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame a wild eighth inning in which their bullpen walked in four runs to rally past the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-7 on Sunday.

Neither team had scored since the Pirates overcame a five-run lead in the eighth until John Grabow, Pittsburgh’s seventh pitcher, walked Jose Hernandez to start the 14th and Saenz followed a batter later with his first Dodgers homer. He hadn’t homered since hitting six for Oakland in 2002.

Brian Falkenborg (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings in only his third Dodgers appearance for his first career victory. Grabow (0-1) took his first major league loss.

Los Angeles starter Odalis Perez was cruising with a 7-2 lead when he was lifted after throwing 91 pitches in seven innings, only to watch the bullpen walk five consecutive batters during a five-run eighth.

Marlins 7, Padres 4

MIAMI – Miguel Cabrera hit his league-leading 11th home run, and Josh Beckett pitched six strong innings in the Florida Marlins’ 7-4 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday.

Cabrera homered for the second straight day, a three-run shot in the second inning, to give Beckett a 6-1 cushion. Beckett (3-2) allowed one run and five hits in his second win in three starts.

In his last three starts, Beckett has allowed five earned runs and struck out 17 in 21 innings. He pitched out of trouble in each of the first two innings, then settled down as the NL East-leading Marlins wrapped up their homestand 3-3.

Phillies 7, D-backs 1

PHOENIX – Brett Myers earned his first win of the season by pitching seven strong innings and the Philadelphia Phillies completed a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 7-1 victory Sunday night.

Marlon Byrd hit a leadoff homer and scored three times in the Phillies’ fourth straight win, moving Philadelphia (15-14) above .500 for the first time this season.

Jimmy Rollins was 4-for-5 with an RBI.

Myers (1-2) also doubled and scored as the Phillies swept the Diamondbacks for the second time in the seven-year history of the series, and first time at Bank One Ballpark.

A 14-game winner last season, Myers allowed one run on seven hits in his fifth start of the year, striking out five and walking none.

The Diamondbacks allowed a run to score on an error and walked in two more – all in the seventh inning – en route to their fourth straight loss and an 0-3 start to a 10-game homestand.

Philadelphia won the season series 5-1.

Shea Hillenbrand was 2-for-4 with a double and scored Arizona’s only run.

Knuckleballer Steve Sparks (2-2) gave up five runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings.

Byrd put Philadelphia ahead 1-0 on the second pitch of the game with his second home run of the season.

Arizona tied it in the second when Hillenbrand led off with a double. He moved to second when Steve Finley struck out on a wild pitch, then scored on Danny Bautista’s groundout.

Myers doubled with one out in the fifth. Byrd was hit by a pitch, then Rollins singled to right. Bautista’s throw to the plate beat Myers, but catcher Brent Mayne dropped the ball when Myers slid into him. Bobby Abreu followed with a sacrifice fly and the Phillies led 3-1.

Philadelphia added two more in the seventh. Tomas Perez led off with a double, then Byrd walked with one out. Third baseman Chad Tracy barehanded Rollins’ slow roller, but threw wildly past first, allowing Perez to score from second.

It was Tracy’s eighth error in 16 games since being called up from Triple-A Tucson. Randy Choate relieved Sparks and intentionally walked Abreu to load the bases, then walked Jim Thome to bring in another run.

Brian Bruney, called up from Tucson on Saturday, came on and walked Pat Burrell to bring in another run.

The Phillies scored again in the eighth on a wild pitch by reliever Oscar Villarreal.

Notes: It was the second time in the series Villarreal allowed a run to score on a wild pitch. He leads the NL with five wild pitches after throwing just three in 86 games last season. … The Diamondbacks lead the NL in errors (27) and walks allowed (135). … The only other time the Phillies swept Arizona was a three-game series in Philadelphia May 7-10, 1998, the Diamondbacks’ first season. … The first three batters in Arizona’s order were 0-for-12. Leadoff hitter Matt Kata was 0-for-4 and is in a 1-for-19 slump.

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