Congrats to Barry for tying Aaron's National League career homerun record. As I had noted long ago - it was the first mention of it that I was aware of and I researched the historical timeline of it and who held it for how long in this article - Bonds was on target for Aaron's National League Homerun record, only, of course, no one knew at that time that he would not play most of the 2005 season, pushing the feat to today in Milwaukee, which is semi-appropriate since Aaron spent much of his career playing there for the Milwaukee Braves.
With this homer, he is at 25 for the season. I'm not absolutely sure but I think Ted Williams holds the record for most homers in a single season for any player 40 years or older, with 29 homers in his final season, when he was 41 years old; I think Barry's probably already got the career total for homeruns after turning 40 but I'll have to check that. Barry would need 4 to tied Ted Williams, an unlikely feat given that there is only 9 more games to play and he will probably miss at least 2 more games since they are day games after a night game, so that is only 7 more games for him to play to get 4 - not impossible for him to do when he is hot but he hasn't been hot lately. Hopefully this homer is a sign of more to come.
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