Bonds apologizes to Joc for miscommunication

ATLANTA — Nearly a month after Dodgers outfielder Joc Pederson didn’t get a picture at Dodger Stadium with one of his all-time favorite baseball players as a youth while growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, he just received the next-best thing. Well, sort of.

Let’s just say Barry Bonds was on the other end of the phone with Pederson on Friday afternoon, and baseball’s career home run leader — now the Marlins’ hitting coach — was a little perplexed.

Earlier this week, Pederson told Fox Sports Live with Jay & Dan that he was “a mental head case” during a home game against the Marlins in April after he approached Bonds for a picture beforehand, only to watch the former Giants slugger turn his back without comment.

The thing is, Bonds said he doesn’t remember that happening.

“I got a phone call from somebody about it, and I said, ‘What? I did what?’ So I just called the young man up maybe 45 minutes ago, …

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