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Saturday - May 20, 2006

Alumni news: Halsey makes it into the record books

We all sorta knew it would happen didn't we? Yep, Brad Halsey gave up a home run to Barry Bonds in their first ever meeting today. Bonds hit #714 off Brad in his first appearance in today's game. Just a few minutes ago. Now Brad needs someone to give up #715 so he can get his name out of the papers. Assuming, of course, that he doesn't do it. [Yikes! I'm sorry I had that thought. Too late to do anything about it now, though. Sigh...]

UPDATE (10:30 PM). Brad actually pitched a good game (no decision) as the Giants ended up winning the game 4-2. Brad went 6.1 innings and gave up 2 runs (both earned on solo home runs, oddly enough) on 6 hits with 2 walks and 4 strikeouts. Brad struck Bonds out looking in the 3rd and got him to fly out to lf in the 6th. A fun quote from the sportsline.com story by Scott Miller on today's milestone:

Halsey's best moment came a few hours later, when he was describing how the special baseballs being employed for Bonds' historic at-bats are different from the other ones.

After explaining that there is a letter "B" stamped on them followed by some numbers, he wryly noted that there is something else on the baseballs, too.

"There's a picture of Barry," Halsey said. "And if you look at his eyes, he winks at you."

Posted by Joanna at 3:42 PM