Congrats to Barry Bonds for hitting his 715th homerun of his career! Byung-Hyun Kim is the pitcher who served up the record setting homer: a 445-foot, two-run homer to centerfield in the fourth inning. Bonds knew it immediately and held up his hands. Kim became the 421st pitcher to serve up a homer to Bonds.
I liked that Kim was able to joke about becoming a trivial question: he said he thought the game was over because of all the noise made by the crowd, since you only hear such noise when the game is over. That impressed me. No lame or sterile or polite comment, he said that off the cuff.
Bonds is now not only #2 on the career homerun list but he also is now has the most homers for any lefty-hitter in MLB history. Next up is the National League homerun leadership, which Hank Aaron has at 733 homers - I will be posting something on the history of that record this coming week. He could conceivably reach that total this season but he will have to pick up the pace a lot if he is going to do that. Maybe finally reaching the goal will loosen him up enough that he starts hitting them out like he did at the end of 2005, which was not that long ago.
In any case, congrats again to Bonds for reaching #2 and for doing it at home where the fans can enjoy it more. It would have been wasted at any other stadium.
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