Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice Nov. 15, but U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than lumping several alleged falsehoods into single counts.
The new indictment doesn't add any new alleged falsehoods.
The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.
"It's exactly the same," Golden Gate University law professor Peter Keane said. "It's two ways of saying it's lying and there's really no substantial difference between what he was charged with then and what he is charged with now."
Los Angeles shortstop Rafael Furcal was placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to May 6 because of a lower back strain. The Dodgers said Furcal would rejoin the team this weekend in Anaheim, where they face the Angels in a three-game interleague series.
Injured Alex Rodriguez is hoping to rejoin New York early next week. "You've got to be smart, so it's a good way to go," Rodriguez said at the team's minor league complex.
Melvin Mora was struck in the shoulder by a baseball during warmups and was scratched from the Baltimore starting lineup against the Red Sox. Catcher Ramon Hernandez was also out of the starting lineup because of a sprained left wrist.
Boston manager Terry Francona left the team and will miss the first two games of his team's series at Baltimore because of the death of his mother-in-law.