SAN FRANCISCO – Chris Woodward lined a go-ahead double in the 11th inning and scored on Jose Reyes’s single, lifting the Mets to a 9-7 victory over the San Francisco Giants yesterday.

Barry Bonds hit a tying pinch-hit two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth for the 711th of his career to force extra innings. The slugger sent a 2-1 pitch from Billy Wagner into the seats in left center for his third homer of the year and second in as many games. With a man on second and two outs, the Mets opted to pitch to Bonds rather than out him on first with an intentional walk. Bonds made them pay.

It was Bonds’s fourth career pinch-hit homer and first career homer against Wagner, who became the 418th pitcher to surrender a homer to Bonds – and blew his second save in the process.

Bonds remained in the game to play left field in the 10th to chants of “Barry! Barry!” and looked like he had a hard time chasing down Woodward’s double off loser Scott Munter (0-1) that scored Ramon Castro. Bonds hit a game-ending fly out in the 11th.

Darren Oliver (1-0) got the final out in the 10th and worked the 11th for the win, and the Mets took two of three in the second series of their 10-game trip.

Pinch-hitter Julio Franco had given the Mets the lead with a two-run single in the eighth and then stole a base with his 47-year-old legs. David Wright’s RBI double scored Franco from second.

Carlos Delgado splashed a home run into McCovey Cove for his ninth of the season, tying the franchise mark for the month of April that Dave Kingman accomplished in 1976.

While Franco became the oldest player in major league history to hit a home run last Thursday at San Diego – and he’s batting .400 – he was only the second-oldest to steal a base, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Arlie Latham swiped a bag in 1909 for the New York Giants at 49.

Moises Alou hit a tying single in the seventh for one of his two RBIs and three hits that also included a run-scoring double, spoiling a gutsy effort by Mets starter Brian Bannister.

Bannister hobbled home with the go-ahead run despite the pain of a strained right hamstring in the sixth that put the rookie pitcher in position for the win following five strong innings on the mound before the injury.

Bannister, who had followed his fourth-inning two-run double with another double, went 2-0 in his first four starts and had the lead again when he hurt himself running the bases.

He began limping as he approached third base on Kaz Matsui’s RBI double and somehow made it to the plate before falling to the ground. Bannister, 2-0 in his first five starts, made it 4-3. He allowed three runs and seven hits in five innings, struck out two and walked one. He had to be helped off the field and left to a warm applause.

Delgado’s solo shot gave the Mets homers into the water for the second straight game after Cliff Floyd did it in New York’s 4-1 victory Tuesday night.

Before the game, the Mets signed outfielder Michael Tucker to a minor league deal and he was scheduled to report to the team’s extended spring training team in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Tucker was released by the Washington Nationals on March 30 after spending last season with the Giants and Philadelphia Phillies. He hit .239 with five home runs and 36 RBI last year.