5/5 -- Postgame thoughts

Notes left on the cutting-room floor after tonight's 8-3 Phillies win over Barry Bonds and the Giants ...

* Maybe, just maybe, fledgling starter Gavin Floyd is starting to figure it out. The other night in Miami, I asked Floyd how he planned to pitch to Bonds. Floyd smiled and said, "You mean, how am I going to pitch the Giants?" Then, he told me he'd approach Bonds "like any other hitter." I rolled my eyes, thinking it was false bravado from a 23-year-old right-hander who has done little beside struggle since his eye-opening spring training. But here was Floyd, challenging Bonds with a first-pitch sinker in the first inning and getting him to fly meekly to center field. In the fifth, he threw a curveball that Bonds rolled over for a double play.

* Catcher Sal Fasano on Floyd's progress: "The fact that he's got confidence to throw a breaking ball when he's behind in the count, that tells me something." The breaking ball Fasano was referring to was the aforementioned curveball to Bonds.

* How did reliever Aaron Fultz approach Bonds when he struck him out in the eighth: "It's 8-3, so you just go after him. If he hits it out, it's 8-4."

* If Ryan Howard was a fan, he might not boo Barry Bonds. "The true, true baseball fans recognize the milestone. If he hits it and it's gone, you might not like it because it's against your team. But you're watching a milestone. You're watching history. You can tell your grandkids you were there the day he passed Babe Ruth."