<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>HOUSTON -- Nobody wants to surrender Barry Bonds' next home run, and Astros right-hander Russ Springer wasn't about to wind up on the wrong end of history Tuesday night.He wound up and plunked the San Francisco slugger instead.Bonds went 2-for-4 and drove in a run for the second straight game in the Giants' 14-3 victory over Houston. Just when it looked like he had rediscovered his stroke, Springer couldn't find the plate.And Bonds is still looking for home run No. 714.The wild confrontation began when the seven-time NL MVP led off the fifth inning. Springer's first pitch sailed behind Bonds' back, drawing a warning from plate umpire Joe West.The next four pitches all came inside, including one that hit Bonds' bat handle on the third delivery for strike one. On the fifth pitch, Springer hit Bonds in the right shoulder as he turned to protect himself.That's when Springer and manager Phil Garner got ejected -- and the Houston crowd of 35,286 gave the pitcher a standing ovation.''He missed with a slider and that's when the warning came,'' Garner said. ''He just started missing his pitches. If you're going to try to hit somebody, you're not going to hit them with a slider.''''I played with Russ in St. Louis,'' Giants reliever Steve Kline said. ''I had no idea he had anything for Barry. With the score the way it was, maybe they were mad he was still in the game. I don't know. It's baseball. Maybe one got away from him.''Bonds was unhurt and trotted down the first-base line and later scored on Jose Vizcaino's RBI single to give the Giants a 12-3 lead.Springer had already gone when the Astros' clubhouse opened to the media and Garner said Springer was en route to Louisiana to be with his wife, who had surgery scheduled for this morning.''I haven't had time to prepare a speech,'' Giants manager Felipe Alou said of Springer's pitch. ''It's a lot of people watching, especially the at-bats of Barry's. All the people watching with an honest heart, they can say what they want to say. I'm not commenting.''</div>http://www.suntimes.com/output/baseball/cst-spt-bonds17.htmlThey were appluding Springer for hitting him. If I were ever at a game and someone hit Pujols or Buerhle in the head w/ a 100 mph fastball, I would definatly appluad
A warning from the slider behind is back was bullshit anyways. Only reason that happened was because it was Barry Bonds. So when he did hit Barry Bonds what is when the warning should have happened and neither of them should have been ejected IMO.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrianUrlacher54 @ May 17 2006, 11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you look at the sequence, he was trying to hit Bonds</div>Good. Bonds is a fag. I'm glad he finally did hit Bonds.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrianUrlacher54 @ May 17 2006, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you look at the sequence, he was trying to hit Bonds</div>Point is that I have NEVER seen a warning given without somebody being hit in the game.
I know, but the thing that started it, was when he got nailed in the ankle with the first pitch, in the previous at-bat. In the next at-bat when a ball sails behind the same guy's back....well....I would have warned and thrown him out too.
