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Reliever Mike Stanton has been a Giant for a mere 10 days but has seen enough to make a definitive statement about his new club.

"When we hit six home runs, we're a pretty good team," he said.

The Giants do not live and die by the home run. That has not been their modus operandi in 2006, although they learned how fun it can be when they went on a fence-clearing expedition Monday night and clobbered Arizona 8-4.

The Giants' first six-homer game of the season was accomplished by Pedro Feliz, who hit two, Moises Alou, Ray Durham, Shea Hillenbrand and pitcher Jason Schmidt, who seemingly can do no wrong at Chase Field. He is 8-0 in his last nine starts in the big airplane hangar in the desert, and 11-0 in his last 14 starts against the Diamondbacks, who have not beaten him since September 2002.

The Giants hit three of their homers in the sixth inning against reliever Jeff Bajenaru, a 28-year-old right-hander who had a couple of cups of coffee with the White Sox in 2004 and 2005, and made his 2006 debut in relief of Enrique Gonzalez.

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