Bonds faces more charges
Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he hampered the federal government’s doping investigation.
The career home run leader originally was indicted in November by a federal grand jury on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.
On Tuesday, a grand jury handed up a superseding indictment charging Bonds with 14 counts of making false declarations to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction of justice. No new lies were alleged.
Bonds’ next hearing already had been scheduled for June 6.
Triple play for ages
Asdrubal Cabrera even showed venerable Hall of Famer Bob Feller something new.
When the Cleveland Indians’ young infielder turned the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history it was something the 89-year-old Feller hadn’t seen since he was an Iowa farmboy.
“First one I’ve seen since Little League,” Feller said of Cabrera’s gem against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night.
Wrigley deal nixed
Tribune Co. rejected an Illinois state agency’s plan to buy Wrigley Field and is pushing ahead to sell the ballpark together with the Chicago Cubs, a top company official said.
Tribune is moving ahead to package the stadium together with the club in a private sale that outside experts believe could fetch as much as $1 billion for the cash-crunched media conglomerate.
Clearing the bases…
Alex Rodriguez (strained right quadriceps) is hoping to rejoin the New York Yankees early next week. … Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit (Moses Lake) left after one inning in St. Louis, after injuring his left thumb. … Cincinnati shortstop Jeff Keppinger left the game against the Florida Marlins with a broken left kneecap. … The St. Louis Cardinals are expecting Yadier Molina to be disciplined after the catcher was ejected Monday for taking off his gear and leaving it in a pile at the feet of plate umpire Paul Schrieber. … Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team’s series at Baltimore following the death of his mother-in-law.