The San Francisco Giants placed Barry Bonds on the 15-day disabled list Saturday, the third time the slugger has been on the DL in his career.

The move was retroactive to March 25. Bonds, who will begin his 20th major-league season, is recovering from two operations on his troublesome right knee in a seven-week span, the latest March 17.

Bonds has been rehabilitating his knee in San Francisco and isn’t sure when he’ll return to resume his quest for the career home-run record.

While the Red Sox prepared for tonight’s opener against the New York Yankees, ace Curt Schilling said he likely would make his season debut April 13 against the Yankees at Fenway Park. At Fort Myers, Fla., Schilling pitched the equivalent of 81/3 innings in a minor-league intrasquad game.

Teams made a flurry of roster moves to get to the 25-man active limit by the midnight EST deadline. Among those brought up from minor-league rosters were Minnesota left-hander Terry Mulholland, Cincinnati infielder Rich Aurilia and utilityman Jacob Cruz, Florida right-hander Brian Moehler and infielder Lenny Harris, Houston right-hander Russ Springer, Milwaukee infielder Jeff Cirillo, New York Mets reliever Roberto Hernandez and San Francisco left-hander Jeff Fassero.

In games:

Mets 12, Marlins 4

At Jupiter, Fla., A.J. Burnett allowed five runs in four innings and finished 1-4 with a 5.52 earned-run average during the exhibition season.

Pirates 4, Twins 0

At Fort Myers, Fla., Antonio Sucre hit a two-run single off Kyle Lohse.

Nationals 5, Devil Rays 4

At St. Petersburg, Fla., Esteban Loaiza allowed five hits and struck out four in seven innings.

Indians 9, Braves 5

At Atlanta, Tim Hudson gave up eight hits and seven runs in four innings. The Braves used a six-run 10th inning to rally for an 11-9 victory in a game that teams agreed would go 11 innings because of Friday’s rainout. Still, only the first nine innings counted in the spring-training statistics, which showed Cleveland winning, 9-5.

Reds 7, Blue Jays 6

At Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati’s Aaron Harang allowed three runs and six hits over three innings.

Brewers 4, White Sox 2

At Milwaukee, Carlos Lee hit a three-run homer and finished his spring with eight homers and 23 RBIs in 19 games.

Rangers 7, Diamondbacks 4

At Albuquerque, N.M., Texas starter Chris Young gave up homers to Troy Glaus and Luis Gonzalez.

SkySox 5, Rockies 1

At Colorado Springs, Colo., the Sky Sox got a two-run double from Sean Barker.

Cardinals 4,

Springfield (AA) 3

At Springfield, Mo., Matt Morris gave up three runs in four innings.

Athletics 3, Giants 1

At Oakland, Calif, Dan Haren allowed one run and two hits in six innings.

Cubs 3, Mariners 2

At Las Vegas, Henry Blanco and Angel Echevarria hit solo homers.

Padres 15,

Lake Elsinore (A) 4

At Lake Elsinore, Calif., Brian Giles and Mark Sweeney each went 3-for-3 with three RBIs.

Angels 6, Dodgers 4

At Los Angeles, Vladimir Guerrero hit a tying three-run homer, and Curtis Pride and Lou Merloni had RBI singles.