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Feds Raid Balco Chemist's LabFederal agents raided the laboratory and home of an Illinois chemist who authorities believe created one of the steroids at the heart of the BALCO sports doping scandal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. Investigators with the Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation division and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration searched Thursday in Champaign, Ill., at the home and laboratory of chemist Patrick Arnold, the newspaper reported, citing sources who wished not to be identified. BALCO founder Victor Conte and vice president James Valente identified Arnold as the source of a once-undetectable steroid called "the clear." Conte, Valente, track coach Remi Korchemny and Greg Anderson _ the longtime friend and personal trainer of Giants slugger Barry Bonds _ pleaded guilty to distributing steroids to elite athletes and will be sentenced next month. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Schmidt Will Start SundayWith the Giants still alive in the NL West race, ace Jason Schmidt will start against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night. Schmidt hasn't pitched since tweaking a groin injury against Los Angeles on Sept. 17. That forced him out after five innings. Schmidt is 12-6 with a 4.29 ERA. Pedro Astacio (3-2) is scheduled to start for San Diego on Wednesday. After rallying to win 3-2 Monday night, the Giants trailed the NL West-leading Padres by three games. San Diego's magic number for clinching the division was four going into Tuesday night's game, meaning San Diego could wrap it up by winning two of the final three games of the series. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Alfonzo Wants Out Of San Francisco To Get P.T.Edgardo Alfonzo played for Maracaibo in Venezuela this past winter because he wanted to reassert himself as the Giants' everyday third baseman. Despite a fast start, that didn't happen. So Alfonzo plans to take his frustration back to Venezuela this off-season. "I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play," Alfonzo said. "If I stay (with the Giants), I guess I have to play harder and work harder to recover that playing time I lost." Alfonzo had an extra bounce in his step in spring training and April, but then he injured his quadriceps and never fully regained his stroke ? or the everyday job at third base. He plans to renew his request for a trade, though his $7 million salary will make him difficult to move. Plus, the Giants need insurance for oft-injured Ray Durham, and Alfonzo was once a premier second baseman. Alfonzo, who didn't start Monday, also feels that Pedro Feliz has been shortchanged by the quasi-platoon at third base. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bonds Would Retire If His Knee Needs More SurgeriesIf and when the Padres clinch the NL West title, the Giants' Barry Bonds will be relegated to pinch-hitting duty for the rest of the season. But if his knee requires further surgeries, Bonds said he'd be shut down for good. Bonds told The Oakland Tribune that he plans to continue rehab work on his knee this offseason and he expects it to go fine, but he also told the newspaper that he won't try to come back from another surgery. "I wouldn't bother. I'd call it quits," Bonds told the Tribune. "Wait till October next year, then I'd quit. ... A normal person can't go through that and still come back and play. You'd have to wait a year at least." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Giants Pull Within Four Going Into Four-Game San Diego SetCombined with San Diego's 4-3 loss to Arizona, the Giants pulled within four games of the Padres in the NL West with a four-game series at San Diego starting Monday. ``It's going to be tough,'' Giants first baseman J.T. Snow said. ``Can we do it? Yeah, we can do it. We need to play our best baseball and get some luck and get some things to go our way. You never know. Crazy things have happened.'' Pinch-hitter Julio Ramirez hit the go-ahead single -- his first major league hit since 2002 -- off Rockies closer Brian Fuentes (2-5) in the ninth, as San Francisco improved to 8-2 in games Bonds starts. The win and the Padres loss kept San Diego's magic number at four. It also ensured the Giants (73-82) will be mathematically alive until at least Tuesday and could actually pull even with a sweep of the Padres. ``We won't have to look at the scoreboard anymore, and we will have a good series, have some fun and play good baseball,'' Alou said of the upcoming games against the Padres. Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Giants Sep 2005 Archive
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