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Bonds' Average Goes Up Even As He Sits


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By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Sports Writer Sun Apr 23, 5:56 PM ET

DENVER - Maybe things have turned around for Barry Bonds. San Francisco's slugger wasn't in the starting lineup for Sunday afternoon's game at Colorado, a day after he ended his homerless drought, but his batting average rose nevertheless.

Official scorer Dave Einspahr reviewed Bonds' fourth at-bat from Saturday night, when pitcher Aaron Cook mishandled his comebacker and was charged with an error. Einspahr changed it to an infield single, raising Bonds' batting average from .206 to .235 — although it dipped to .228 when he struck out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth.

"It's kind of a do-or-die situation where, if he doesn't get it cleanly, it's not an easy play," Einspahr told The Associated Press on Sunday after the Giants had requested a review.

The ball, which was hit to the right of the mound, bounced off Cook's glove and dribbled behind the plate and the 41-year-old Bonds chugged down to first on sore knees.

Afterward, Bonds said he'd never seen a play like that in his 21 years in the majors. Cook also was charged with an error on a similar comebacker by Pedro Feliz an inning earlier and that call stood.

"Both of the errors hit on the exact same spot on my glove, right on my thumb," said Cook, who also served up Bonds' first homer of the season Saturday night. "We work on that every day in spring training and we get balls hit a lot harder than those two were. The only way I can explain it is that maybe I took my eye off it at the last second, because those plays should be made 100 percent of the time."

Hounded by steroid suspicions, an aching body and pitchers unwilling to throw him many strikes, Bonds is off to a slow start, with one homer and two RBIs in his first 35 at-bats. He's been walked 20 times and has a .509 on-base percentage.

His homer in the first inning Saturday night was the 709th of his career, five shy of Babe Ruth for second all-time behind Henry Aaron's 755. It came in Bonds' 14th game, one of the longest homerless streaks he has ever had to start the season when healthy.

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Hamels started toward the dugout after what he thought was a strike. Lincecum didn't get the call & buzzed ump Dana DeMuth w. a fastball that slammed off the backstop & then froze Hamels w. another 3rd strike. 4/28/10 Timmy the ump killer.
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