Bonds hits 741st homer to close on Aaron

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 741st career home run to move within 14 of all-time leader Hank Aaron and lift the Giants to a 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.

Bonds drilled a three-run shot to right-center field off a 1-1 pitch by Randy Wolf in the first inning for his third homer in four games, helping the Giants to their first seven-game win streak in three years.

"I left the ball up, and he's hot right now," Wolf told reporters. "It might have been off the end of the bat, it didn't sound like a home run and I've given up enough to know what they sound like. But the guy's got super-human power."

Pedro Feliz then turned a Wolf fastball into the go-ahead home run in the sixth after the Dodgers had tied the score at 4-4.

"Pedro did a good job to go with the pitch there," Giants manager Bruce Bochy told reporters. "That shows you how strong he is."

After the Giants' four-run first, the Dodgers pushed across two runs in their half of the inning.

They tied the score in the fourth on a run-scoring double by Ramon Martinez and Rafael Furcal's single that scored Martinez.

*Stephen Drew's two-out, two-run homer in the ninth lifted the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 home win over San Diego after the Padres' Jake Peavy had struck out 16 batters in seven innings. Peavy struck out the side in the second, third and fourth innings to fall one short of Tom Seaver's major-league record of 10 consecutive strikeouts.

*Adam LaRoche singled in the winning run in the 16th inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Houston Astros 4-3 at home. The loss was the fifth straight for the Astros.

*Miguel Olivo scored the winning run on a passed ball as the Florida Marlins stunned the Atlanta Braves by scoring four runs in the ninth inning for a 4-3 home win. The Braves' Tim Hudson struck out 12 before giving up three of the runs in the ninth.

*Albert Pujols's two-run double sparked a four-run eighth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied for a 5-2 home win over the Cincinnati Reds.

*Willy Taveras went 5-for-6 as the Colorado Rockies pounded out 20 hits in an 11-5 road win over the New York Mets.

*The Chicago Cubs used a five-run fourth inning to defeat the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 9-3 and snap a three-game losing streak. Brewers starter Ben Sheets strained his right groin in the third inning and left the game.

*Chase Utley was 5-for-5 and drove in three runs as the Philadelphia Phillies won their fifth straight with a 9-3 home victory over the Washington Nationals.

(Writing by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina)