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Paul Gutierrez
Raised in Barstow, Calif., where he played community college baseball for two years, Paul Gutierrez has worked at Sports Illustrated and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he covered his alma mater's Runnin' Rebels at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During a six-year stint at the Los Angeles Times, he co-authored Tommy Davis' "Tales from the Dodgers Dugout." He came to The Bee in October 2005 and is now a Bay Area sports features writer who concentrates on baseball during the spring and summer.

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August 06, 2007

His night is done

Having gone 0-for-3 with a walk against rookie left-hander John Lannan, Barry Bonds' evening is finished.

Bonds, who fouled out to third base in the first inning, walked in the third and grounded into a double play in the fifth, struck out swinging to end the seventh.

He remains tied with Hank Aaron atop the all-time home run list with 755 homers.

But major props to Lannan, who was making just his third major league start. Lannan never shied from Bonds and struck him out on a full-count change-up, a pitch you rarely see in that situation from even the most veteran of pitchers these days.

-Paul Gutierrez

Posted by Bill Bradley, August 6, 2007 09:46 PM

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