Bonds smacks baseball career home run 741

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Barry Bonds belted career home run No. 741 on Wednesday as his pursuit of Hank Aaron's major league record of 755 continued.

In the first inning, Bonds lined a 1-1 fastball from Dodgers starter Randy Wolf over the wall in right-center field at Dodger Stadium for a three-run homer and 4-0 lead.

It was his seventh blast of the season - second career against Wolf - and left him needing 15 home runs to break the all-time mark held by Aaron.

Wolf settled down after that and the Dodgers scored a pair of runs in both the first and fourth off San Francisco starter Noah Lowry to draw even.

But Pedro Feliz drilled a 2-0 off-speed pitch from Wolf just over the fence in right-center field with two outs in the sixth for the Giants' first hit...