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NEW YORK (AP) -- Russ Ortiz and Barry Bonds made sure the San
Francisco Giants escaped Shea Stadium with at least one victory.
Ortiz shut out the Mets on one single for seven innings, Bonds
had a season-high four hits and the Giants averted a four-game
sweep Monday night with an 11-1 romp over New York.
|  | | Russ Ortiz no-hit the Mets through five innings and allowed only one single through seven to improve to 8-10. |
Bonds, held to a mere single in 11 at-bats in the opening three
games of the series, went 4-for-4. His luck, and the Giants'
fortunes, seemed to change as soon as he lined a single in his
first at-bat.
"I got to first base and told Todd (Mets first baseman Zeile)
that I was bound to get a hit sooner or later," Bonds said.
The NL West leaders stopped the Mets' five-game winning streak.
The Giants even had fans at Shea -- where New York had won 12 of 13
-- booing the home team in the late innings.
"It may not sound like much, but it's nice to get out of here
without getting swept," Giants manager Dusty Baker said.
Ortiz (8-10) held the Mets hitless until Mike Bordick's leadoff
single in the sixth. The right-hander won his third straight start
and extended his scoreless streak to 19 innings.
"I can't control what happened before in the other games," he
said. "I didn't feel any extra pressure to win."
Ortiz worked around six walks, twice getting Mike Piazza to
ground into double plays, and improved to 4-0 lifetime against New
York.
Limited to one earned run in 32 innings in the series, the
Giants broke loose for five runs in the sixth against Rick Reed
(7-3) and added six more in the seventh off Dennis Cook.
Bonds singled to set up both big innings, while Ortiz capped San
Francisco's scoring with a two-run single.
Aaron Fultz relieved Ortiz to start the eighth and served up a
home run to Jay Payton on his second pitch. Robb Nen pitched the
ninth to complete the two-hitter.
Reed, with just one loss in his previous 14 starts, blanked the
Giants on three singles for five innings.
But after singles by Bill Mueller and Bonds to start the sixth,
Reed -- one of the majors' best control pitchers -- made his biggest
mistake when he hit Jeff Kent with a 1-2 pitch to load the bases
with no outs.
J.T. Snow's sacrifice fly broke the scoreless tie, Ellis Burks
and Rich Aurilia followed with RBI singles and Bobby Estalella's
two-run double made it 5-0.
"It was one of those games where they did everything right and
we didn't do anything right," Reed said.
The Giants again loaded the bases with no outs in the seventh on
two walks and Bonds' single. Snow blooped a two-run single over the
drawn-in infield, Burks doubled home a run and Aurilia singled home
another.
Ortiz, with only two RBI all season, hit a two-run single that
finished Cook.
The two big bursts ended any hopes the Mets had of completing
their first four-game sweep of the Giants since 1990. In May, the
Giants swept a four-game set from New York in San Francisco.
"You'd rather win them all, but sometimes you can't," Mets
manager Bobby Valentine said.
Game notes
Bonds, who met President Clinton and daughter Chelsea at
Pacific Bell Park earlier this season, spent several minutes after
the game in a back room in the clubhouse, watching on television as
Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
... Despite the loss, the Mets have won 16 of their last 20 games.
They dropped 2½ games behind Atlanta in the NL East. ... San
Francisco has not dropped more than three in a row since an
eight-game skid in May. ... Piazza had bounced into six double
plays all year before doing it in each of his first two at-bats.
... Mets LF Benny Agbayani drew a big cheer when he caught a fly
for the final out of the fourth inning and flipped the ball into
the stands. Earlier in the series, he mistakenly handed a live ball
to a 7-year-old boy.
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 Giants' pitcher Russ Ortiz comments on pitching six innings of no-hit baseball.
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Jeff Kent and the Giants finally broke out of their scoring slump against the Mets.
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Giants' skipper Dusty Baker was happy to see some scoring from his team.
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