MILWAUKEE -- Drama is definitely a constant when it comes to covering Barry Bonds, and things were in a heightened state for a while well over an hour before the Giants played the Brewers at Miller Park Wednesday.
While Bonds leaned against the batting cage during batting practice, rookie Kevin Frandsen fouled off a ball that stretched the screen back and hit Bonds in the forehead. He stood there for a while and then rolled backward onto the ground behind the screen.
Giants trainers rushed to Bonds, who laid on the ground for a few minutes. While there, though, he had to wrestle to take a clip microphone off his shirt. The mic was there to catch his conversations for his "Bonds on Bonds" show.
Eventually, Bonds went into the Giants' clubhouse where he was examined. He returned to take his batting practice session before being re-examined and deemed able to play.
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Pedro Gomez
MLBESPN's Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A's home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003.