Sellout crowd goes away wet
PHOENIX (AP) – A sellout crowd hoping to see Barry Bonds play arrived to a soggy stadium Saturday and learned the Oakland Athletics’ home Cactus League game against the San Francisco Giants was rained out. The 41-year-old Bonds went through some conditioning work indoors in nearby Scottsdale, two days after making his first spring training appearance in two years in a loss against the Angels.
Bonds, facing further steroids scrutiny this week after the release of excerpts from an upcoming book detailing his alleged longtime use of performance-enhancing drugs, had said he hoped to play in left field for the first time Sunday against the San Diego Padres – but that could change if the field is soggy and there’s even the slightest chance he might slip on his surgically repaired right knee.
“We’re going to see how the field is,” Giants manager Felipe Alou said.