TWO part baseball question?

I was at the game BEFORE Barry bonds hit the home run to tie Hank Aaron. It was at Petco field. The whole crowd was hating on Bonds. They even brought bright yellow signs with asterisks printed on them signifying his steroid use and that every dinger he'd hit from there on out would be tainted. And when Bonds was at bat they would all hold up these signs. This would go on all game. It got so loud with "Bonds is a chump!" and "Barry sucks!" chants that you almost lost track of the game. Well Bonds was up for the 3rd time that night, and up to that point he hadn't hit anything close to a homerun to tie Aaron. At this particular at bat the count ran full and everyone was anticipating a strike out. And that's exactly what the fans wanted. So they could swear him off the field with their Anti Bonds chants. PItch was a fastball low and inside and Bonds hit deep into right field and the crowd literallly went SILENT. I'm talking Sunday at church silent. You could just hear the gasp of air that everyone took when they saw Bonds swing and the ball fly into the air. The energy at Petco at the moment Bonds hit that pitch went from Anti Bonds to "OMG I'm about to see history...GO BONDS!" Unfortunately for Bonds it was short of the wall. Short of the track actually. And that was it. Even though all game we had ben hating on him, the one time he almost took us back into history with him, we loved him for it. The crowd applauded him back to the Giants dugout for teasing us and making us realize how much it meant to baseball for him to tie it. Even though we didn't want him to hit a homerun, or even tie Aaron, deep inside we all wanted to witness something of that caliber. Something we could all tell our kids kids about. Bonds eventually came back the following night and tied Henry Aaron for 1st all-time leader in homeruns. A record he'd break later on in San Francisco.