Just a note of congratulations to Barry Bonds for tying Babe Ruth on the MLB all-time home-run list. Hopefully he can save 715 for the short homestand next week, though it was pretty nice of all the fans - including A's fans - giving him an ovation after he hit the homer. Too bad a Bonds hater caught the ball.
With his next homer, Bonds will become the leading lefty homerun hitter in MLB history. And only 19 more homers will net him a title I research a while back: Hank Aaron has the most homers in the NL with 733 (he played in AL his last two seasons). That is a title that he can possibly reach by year's end if he can hit homers a little more frequently than so far. That title has had a lot of Giants history there, Roger Conner had it for a while, then Rogers Hornsby, who was a Giant for a year, had it, then Mel Ott held it for many years, and lastly Willie Mays had it briefly before Aaron took it. So one could say that this title is full of Giants heritage, covering Giants greats Roger Conner, Mel Ott, and Willie Mays.
And it was nice that the Giants ended up winning the game, it is always a bummer when a player accomplishes some sort of feat and it is in a losing cause. Go Giants!
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