SAN FRANCISCO -- Everything was in place for Barry Bonds to make history Sunday. It was Fan Appreciation Day in San Francisco. His father, Bobby, was in the stands, as was commissioner Bud Selig. McCovey Cove was jammed with anything that floated (including one fan in an inflatable children's wading pool). The game was being televised nationally. And Bonds' favorite pitching staff -- the San Diego Padres -- was on the mound.

	Barry Bonds is left with nothing to do but walk to first base after getting four balls in the fifth inning.

There was just one problem. The Padres didn't give Barry anything to hit in San Francisco's 5-4 defeat.

Oh, they threw him one strike, but he grounded out to second base on that one. And that was the only strike he got.

Much to the loud displeasure of a sellout crowd, San Diego starter Brian Tollberg walked Bonds on four pitches in the first inning, retired him on the groundout in the third and walked him on four pitches in the fifth. Reliever Jose Nunez threw one ball to Bonds in the seventh, then hit him with a fastball the next pitch. Bonds was in the on-deck circle when Rich Aurilia made the final out in the ninth inning.

The fans jeered loudly each time Tollberg walked Bonds and the Giants almost needed extra security when Nunez hit Bonds on the right arm.

"It doesn't bother me,’’ Tollberg said of the booing. "Let somebody else deal with it the next six games.’’

The Padres wore big "Kick Me’’ signs on their backs when facing Bonds this season. They allowed a home run to Bonds in each of their previous two games this weekend and 11 home runs in their previous 17 games with San Francisco. Tollberg said the strategy Sunday was to throw him borderline pitches and try to get him to lunge for them. If he didn't, the Padres were content to walk him.

"I just tried to nibble and if he went after something and got a little anxious, that would be fine,’’ he said. "But I wasn't going to just groove him something. And he didn't score any of the times we walked him, so it didn't hurt us.’’

Bonds did not speak with reporters after the game, which also was occasionally the case with Mark McGwire following defeats when he did not homer down the stretch of his home run chase in 1998.

"(Getting only one pitch to hit) isn't as much frustrating for me as it is for him,’’ San Francisco manager Dusty Baker said. "He's the one at the plate.’’

The Giants have today off before beginning a three-game series in Houston on Tuesday. The Padres are just relieved to have their year with Bonds over.

"I'm exhausted mentally just because of all this stuff and I don't have to deal with it day after day,’’ said Tollberg, who did not allow a Bonds home run this season. "But he handles it without a problem. I guess that's just experience.’’

Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com.