SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run Monday to tie godfather Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list during San Francisco's 7-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.
Bonds connected in the fifth inning on a 3-1 pitch from Milwaukee's Matt Kinney and sent the ball over the right-field wall into McCovey Cove for his second homer of the season, a three-run shot that traveled an estimated 442 feet . It was the 28th time Bonds has homered into the cove.
The 39-year-old Bonds was greeted at home by several teammates and he stepped on the plate and raised both hands in the air.
Mays also greeted the six-time NL MVP with a hug and a kiss outside the dugout and presented his godson with a torch decorated with 25 tiny diamonds, symbolic of the number Bonds wears. Both Bonds and Mays carried the torch before the 2002 Olympics.
Hank Aaron leads the career list with 755 home runs, followed by Babe Ruth with 714.
Bonds finished 3-for-3 with four RBIs and two runs scored.
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