#704

[love_that_reefer]

Was a bullet off of Dodger pitcher Brad Penny. Now Bonds is hurt but he shall return.

[realmofotalk]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Barry Bonds carefully marked almost every piece of his equipment with No. 705 and the date, boxed it up and sealed the top with athletic tape.

His bat and hat, his gloves, his shoes, even his black-and-orange wristbands -- all of it got authenticated and put away for safekeeping in one of the slugger's many storage units.

Bonds splashed a home run into McCovey Cove for the first time this season on Sunday. His 705th career homer led off the eighth inning, causing a commotion as soon as it reached the water and kayakers raced to retrieve the ball.

Also:

Bonds flied out in the first, hit a sacrifice fly in the third and singled in the fifth. He concluded his first week back 5-for-16 with two home runs and three RBIs. Bonds drove in his 1,845th and 1,846th runs, moving past Carl Yastrzemski and into sole possession of ninth place on the RBIs list.

``Cheater!'' one fan hollered during his fifth-inning at-bat.

For the most part, San Francisco's fans have been forgiving and adoring since his return, seemingly having forgotten the steroids controversy that surrounds the superstar.

``They can say whatever they want to say,'' Bonds said. ``To me, anybody who has to go out of their way to say something negative about somebody else, they're in a lot more pain than I am. I'm not in that kind of pain. You've got to be miserable to go out of your way just to be negative about somebody all the time.''

Notes

The mother of Laci Peterson, Sharon Rocha, threw out the ceremonial first pitch as the Giants held a ``Resolve to stop the violence'' ceremony before the game. A photo was shown on the big screen of Laci, whose husband Scott was sentenced to death for killing her and the couple's unborn child.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_y...918126&prov=ap

[riverdunesrat]

That......is SO history.....can we move on now........

[love_that_reefer]

Bonds crushed that pitch and it is fitting that his two homers are off the Dodgers.