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Tuesday, Aug. 1 8:05pm ET
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- County Stadium always seems to cure the San Francisco Giants' offensive blues. The Giants took sole possession of first place in the NL West and emerged from a lengthy slump by getting 17 hits in a 13-8 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night. Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent homered for the Giants, who hit just .180 in the first 10 games of their 12-game road trip. But the Giants, who had an 11-run inning in a trip to Milwaukee in May, had few problems against Brewers starter John Snyder and Milwaukee's bullpen in a sloppy game featuring five errors and six unearned runs. "Some guys had some big offensive nights," San Francisco manager Dusty Baker said. "We've been due for a performance like this. There were a lot of runs given away out there, but we'll take it." With Arizona's 4-2 loss to the Braves, San Francisco moved alone into first place for the first time this season. The Giants, who moved one percentage point in front of the Diamondbacks into first Monday, won their second straight and improved to 6-5 on the road trip, their longest of the season. San Francisco got at least one RBI from every spot in the lineup. "That's the way you want it to happen," said Bill Mueller, who drove in two runs. "You want to come out swinging and get runs early, get everybody going." Bobby Estalella's bases-loaded walk in the eighth broke a 7-7 tie and began a five-run rally. J.T. Snow had four hits and doubled to start the rally, which was extended by two Milwaukee errors which led to three unearned runs. After Estalella's walk, San Francisco added two more runs on Calvin Murray's infield single and Ron Belliard's poor throw to first. One pitch later, Jose Hernandez dropped Mueller's fly ball in left field to bring in two more. Doug Henry (2-3), acquired Sunday in a trade with Houston, pitched one inning for the win. "It felt good to feel like we were going to win the game," said Henry, who gave up a game-tying sacrifice fly to Richie Sexson in the seventh. "I haven't had that feeling all year. I just knew we were going to come back and score some more runs." Sexson, who hit a three-run homer in the first inning, also had a sacrifice fly in the seventh and an RBI groundout in the ninth to tie his career high in RBI. The homer and RBI were Sexson's first since being traded from Cleveland to Milwaukee on Friday. "If I'm at Jacobs Field, that's a homer," Sexson said of his towering sac fly in the seventh. Bonds' solo homer in the first inning -- a 405-footer to dead-center -- was his 33rd of the year, putting him one behind Gary Sheffield for the NL lead. Bonds had just four hits in his previous 31 at-bats. Milwaukee shook up its lineup, benching slumping center fielder Marquis Grissom and bumping Jeromy Burnitz down to sixth in the order. James Mouton went 2-for-4 in the leadoff spot, while Burnitz went 1-for-3. The Brewers used seven pitchers, none of whom had much success quieting the Giants. With the final game of a six-game homestand coming on Wednesday, Milwaukee has lost 12 of its last 17. "We were lucky we had seven pitchers," Milwaukee manager Davey Lopes said. "That may not have been enough, the way it was going." Game notesA sprinting Kent got his glove on Mouton's foul pop in the second inning in foul territory. The ball then bounced out of his glove, but Kent caught it with his bare hand. ... Geoff Jenkins left the game in the fifth inning with what the team called "allergic symptoms." The Milwaukee left fielder was spotted sneezing uncontrollably -- and humorously, at least to his teammates -- in the Brewers' clubhouse before the game. Jenkins singled and struck out before leaving. ... Right-hander Kyle Peterson, a member of the Brewers' rotation for three months last season, allowed an unearned run in 3 2/3 innings of a rehabilitation start at Class-A Beloit. It was Peterson's first action since undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery in February. The Brewers don't expect him back for at least a month. ... Milwaukee reliever David Weathers left in the ninth with a strained abdominal muscle. He'll be re-evaluated Wednesday. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard San Francisco Clubhouse Milwaukee Clubhouse Braves homers knock D-Backs out of NL West lead
RECAPS Oakland 3 Toronto 1
Los Angeles 5
San Francisco 13
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