Pods Beat Giants, Gain Ground in NL West

SAN FRANCISCO - The crowd showed up to see off Barry Bonds. Jake Peavy showed up to make sure San Diego is around another week.

Peavy won his NL-leading 19th game, and the Padres spoiled Bonds' home finale for San Francisco with a much-needed 11-3 victory over the Giants on Wednesday night.

These resilient Padres might just make a push for a third straight NL West crown.

San Diego remained one game up on Philadelphia and Colorado in the NL wild-card race and pulled within one game of division-leading Arizona after the Diamondbacks lost 5-1 at Pittsburgh.

Peavy (19-6) got Bonds to ground out weakly in his first two at-bats and to flyout to the warning …