04/11/2007 2:31 AM ET Giants use grit, luck to get second win Morris again defeats Padres, backed by renewed offense By Chris Haft / MLB.com Matt Morris has earned the win in both of the Giants' victories this season. (Donald Miralle/Getty Images) SAN DIEGO -- For the facts of the Giants' 6-5 victory Tuesday night over the San Diego Padres, check the box score. For the soul of this much-needed triumph, focus on Ryan Klesko. A simple fourth-inning deed by Klesko captured the intensity the Giants summoned to outlast San Diego, which defeated them in three of four previous games. Sliding into second base, Klesko broke up an attempted double play, enabling Ray Durham to score San Francisco's third run. Actually, Klesko didn't just break up the play. He demolished it, grabbing Marcus Giles and virtually tackling him to insure that the Padres second baseman wouldn't have a chance to throw out the plodding Bengie Molina at first. "We gotta take every run we can get," Klesko said. "I don't want to hurt anybody, but you still have to do your job, you know? ... I don't know what I did. I just reacted, I guess. I didn't want to hurt ol' Gilly. We're buddies, but ... I definitely didn't want him getting the throw off." Klesko accented his fervor in the bottom of the inning by landing in the laps of a few spectators behind first base as he snared Khalil Greene's pop fly. "Play hard to win, baby," Klesko said. "That's all you can do." This almost wasn't enough for the Giants, who squandered most of a 6-0 lead that sprouted from luck and newfound timely hitting. Adrian Gonzalez led San Diego's comeback by stroking a fifth-inning RBI single, homering in the seventh and adding a two-run, two-out homer in the ninth off Armando Benitez. But Benitez retired Greene on a fly to center to end San Diego's three-game winning streak and prevent the Giants (2-6) from matching the worst eight-game record in the franchise's San Francisco history (1-7 in 1967). "It's always nice to get a win, but we have to put something together -- get a couple, three in a row, come to the ballpark with confidence and make a decent road trip out of this," said right-hander Matt Morris, who owns both Giants victories. The Giants restored order to their offense, in more ways than one. Barry Bonds' return to the cleanup spot after beginning the season batting third commanded pregame attention. "We were sputtering," manager Bruce Bochy said. "It was time to do something different." But after the first pitch, Bonds shared the spotlight with everybody in the lineup. Bonds accumulated just two at-bats with men on base in his first six games. This time, hitting fourth again, he fulfilled his run-producing role by contributing an RBI single to the Giants' three-run fifth inning. That hit pulled Bonds into a tie with Babe Ruth for fifth on the all-time total bases list with 5,793. The Giants, who scored a National League-low 14 runs in their first seven games, received hits from seven different players, including Morris. The pair of starters who didn't, Dave Roberts and Randy Winn, either scored or drove in a run. Luck helped the Giants open the scoring with a pair of second-inning runs off Padres starter Clay Hensley (0-1). After Bonds reached base safely on Giles' fielding error to open the inning, Durham lifted a fly to center field that Mike Cameron lost in the twilight. The ball fell about 15 feet behind Cameron for a double, moving Bonds to third. After Molina's one-out single scored Bonds, Winn hit a comebacker to Hensley, who didn't bother to look at Durham heading home and instead threw out Winn at first base. "We got a couple of breaks, and we know it," Bochy said. "It's tough in that twilight. But we swung it better and we were a little looser." Klesko's takedown helped the Giants hike their lead to 3-0 before they concluded their scoring with three runs in the fifth. Morris singled and Roberts walked before both advanced on Omar Vizquel's sacrifice bunt. Rich Aurilia and Bonds drilled RBI singles before reliever Mike Thompson allowed Durham's sacrifice fly. Having lost 19 of their previous 22 regular-season games dating back to last year, the Giants wouldn't survive easily. It all came down to Benitez, the shaky save artist who began the ninth inning throwing 94 mph but ended it with the potential tying run at the plate. "I don't care if I throw 75," Benitez said, "if I get somebody out." Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. --

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