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Bonds goes for No. 760

Aug 16, 2007 - 2:06 PM San Francisco (50-70) at Atlanta (64-56) 7:35 pm EDT

ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Barry Bonds will look to continue his assault on the major league record book when the San Francisco Giants try to avoid getting swept by the Atlanta Braves on Thursday in the finale of a three-game series.

Despite the 43-year-old Bonds' 759th career home run, the Giants still suffered a 6-3 setback to the Braves on Wednesday. Playing in his second game in Atlanta since unseating Braves legend Hank Aaron as baseball's home run king, Bonds smashed a 403-foot homer just left of "Hammering" Hank's image to pull the Giants to a 2-2 tie in the sixth.

Bonds is hitting .280 with 25 homers and 57 RBI on the season. It is the 18th time that the controversial slugger has hit 25 blasts in a season, which ties Aaron for the most all-time.

Atlanta, which has won seven of its last 10 contests and trail the New York Mets by 3 1/2 games in the National League East, will send Chuck James (9-8, 3.93 ERA) to the mound. The 25-year-old lefthander pitched six innings, yielding four runs and five hits with five strikeouts in a 5-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday.

He will be opposed by rookie Tim Lincecum (6-3, 3.88), who is winless in his previous three starts. The 23-year-old Lincecum was tagged for six runs and nine hits with eight strikeouts over six frames in Saturday's 13-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Giants' top draft pick in 2006, Lincecum has 121 strikeouts over 111 1/3 innings in 18 starts in his rookie campaign.