Here's what you got if you were among the few who decided to enter Montreal's Olympic Stadium on Tuesday night: Bad baseball from the local nine, a no-hit tease by Russ Ortiz, and three Expos pitchers dealing with Barry Bonds the way a bank teller deals with a customer wearing panty-hose headgear.

So, if you were among those eight grand and change, you got nothing. Nothing at all. No no-hitter, no Expos win and no Bonds. You got to boo your own pitchers, though, because Bonds got two decent pitches and walked three times in five at-bats. He was the only Giant among the starting nine who didn't get a hit, which means the Expos could walk away secure in the knowledge that Bonds didn't beat them.

Each time he came to the plate, the booing started when the count went to 1-0 and gradually increased from there. Bonds has now been given a standing ovation for a three-homer game in Atlanta and been in the batter's box while the home team's pitchers were booed for a three-walk game in Montreal. And who said North America doesn't have a soft spot for the deliberately aloof and unapproachable?

The best bad moment? Undoubtedly Bonds' at-bat in the fifth, when Masato Yoshii walked him on a not-close 3-2 pitch with the bases empty and two outs, the Giants leading 10-0. Yoshii, fearing a 12-run homer that would have put the game a sherpa's-journey out of reach, apparently decided derision is better part of valor

In his defense, Yoshii probably looked into the stands, counted heads and decided he could live with it. After all, it is the weakest of men who fears the empty seat.

E-mail Tim Keown at tim.keown@espnmag.com.