Giants slugger Barry Bonds shouldn’t expect a congratulatory card from Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling when and if Bonds sets the all-time home run record.
In an interview on WEEI-AM in Boston on Tuesday morning, Schilling said that if Bonds is at home run No. 754 and Schilling is pitching during the Giants’ visit to Fenway Park June 15-17, he won’t give Bonds a pitch to hit.
“Not on purpose,” he told WEEI. “I don’t want to be Al Downing,” referring to the pitcher who gave up Hank Aaron’s 715th home run in 1974.
“I mean, he admitted that he used steroids,” Schilling said. “I mean, there’s no gray area.
“I’m guessing they’re going to try to make sure [the record-breaker] happens in San Francisco. Hank Aaron not being there, [Commissioner Bud Selig] trying to figure out where to be. It’s unfortunate it’s happening the way it’s happening.”
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The Nationals placed reliever Chad Cordero on the bereavement list. Cordero left the team to return to California to be with his grandmother, who has terminal brain cancer.. … After being demoted to Triple-A Albuquerque last week, Marlins right-hander Anibal Sanchez went on the minor-league disabled list with a sore shoulder.
