SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds hit the longest home run ever at Pacific Bell Park and the San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles 6-5 Monday night to pull even with the Dodgers in the NL wild-card race.

        Bonds launched a 491-foot drive for his 610th career homer and David Bell hit a two-run, tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning.

        Bell finished 3-for-3, driving in three runs and scoring twice as the Giants won their fourth in a row and for the 12th time in 15 games.

        The NL West rivals play again Tuesday and Wednesday. The teams each have 19 games remaining.

        Bonds led off the second inning with his drive to dead center off Odalis Perez (13-9) for a 1-0 lead. Bonds' 43rd homer of the season flew over people standing in a food line between the bleacher seats in the 3-year-old ballpark.

        Bonds was just shy of matching his career best for distance. He hit one 492 feet against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning Aug. 27 off Denny Stark in Coors Field.

        Rich Aurilia went 3-for-4 with a triple and an RBI for San Francisco, which received a solid outing from starter Livan Hernandez (10-15). Jeff Kent hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh to score Aurilia to give Kent 1,000 career RBIs.

        Hernandez, who lost his previous outing, gave up three runs on six hits in seven innings with five strikeouts.

        Robb Nen faced two batters in the eighth and worked the ninth for his 37th save in 45 opportunities, breaking the franchise record for saves with 200.

        Nen tied Rod Beck on Sunday night at 199. Beck did it from 1991-97.

        Nen also singled in the bottom of the eighth for his first major league hit. He was 0-for-14 previously.

        The Dodgers scored two runs in the eighth, one when Bonds allowed a single by Adrian Beltre to get past him in left field for an error, sending Shawn Green home from first. Beltre went to second on the error, then moved to third on a wild pitch. Felix Rodriguez then got Brian Jordan to pop out before Nen entered to face Eric Karros.

        Karros singled to center to score Beltre.

        Aurilia drove in Bell in the third for a 2-0 lead before Jordan tied the game with a two-run double for the Dodgers in the fourth.

        Trailing 3-2 and with two outs and runners on first and third in the sixth, Jordan hit an RBI infield single, barely beating the throw by Aurilia from shortstop to first.

       Notes: Bonds drew his major league-leading 55th intentional walk. He also leads the majors in total walks with 165. ... San Francisco's Ramon Martinez had just his second stolen base all season in the fourth. ... With Hernandez's win, all five Giants starters have five or more wins.

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