Barry Homers in 7th Straight Game.

wilheim · Apr 20, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds homered in his seventh straight game, but the San Francisco Giants lost 9-5 to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night.

Bonds is one shy of matching the major league record for consecutive games with a homer -- shared by Dale Long (1956), Don Mattingly (1987) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1993).

Bonds has homered in the past seven games in which he has had an at-bat. He had a pinch-hit walk Wednesday, which does not stop the streak under baseball's rules.

His ninth homer of the season, a two-run shot off Brian Lawrence, bounced into McCovey Cove and a fan dived over the railing and into the murky water to retrieve it. The homer pulled the Giants within 6-2 and was the 667th of his career. Pedro Feliz connected two batters later.

When Bonds stepped on home plate, the slugger did his traditional kiss of the hands and pointed at the sky. He then pointed right to new Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp, dressed in a Giants jacket and sitting only a few rows up, a little to the right of home plate.

Bonds homered in six straight games twice during the 2001 season when he set the season record of 73 homers. He did it from April 12-18 and again from May 17-22.

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Chadster · Apr 20, 2004

got juice

wilheim · Apr 20, 2004

How sick are these numbers in 37 official at bats Bonds has 9 homers, is hitting .514 with 19 RBIs while scoring 14 runs.

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RobFunk · Apr 20, 2004

this takes such a back seat to whats going on with boston and NYY.

only 2 things are important in baseball this year: the red sox and the yankees.

people will have a lengthy discussion about why a-rod has gotten off to a slow start, who is the yanks 5 pitcher and when is nomar coming back before they sit there and talk about bonds hitting home runs. he's been doing it and losing year after year. its boring.

Horseshoe · Apr 20, 2004

Rob, No doubt your Bost-NYY war is story numero uno the past year, but Houston's Four Aces/Killer B's, Fightin' Fish/Dontrelle mania, LA Dodgers return of cahones, Detroit's fight for repectability, Philly Phanaticism, Oakland's 3 Aces, Minnesota's reload/march on, and beware of those Birds!

Major League Boredom is going thru a mini-Renaissance!

Fishhead · Apr 21, 2004

Baseball is great and Barry is greater than great.

Schouest · Apr 21, 2004

That LAwrence kid laid one in there 2-0 to him.
Looked like a change up right down the tube, when he let it go I told my son to "watch this one fly" and sure enough Barry turned on it like no one else can, and then that loon did a swan dive into the cove..was quite a baseball moment for the archives !

jaypaw · Apr 21, 2004

I wonder - when was the last time barry was tested?

JohnnyDeMarco · Apr 21, 2004

I think what he is doing is amazing, roids or no roids. He fears no one at the plate.

barman · Apr 21, 2004

They've been running footage this past week of Donny Baseball from when he had his 8 game HR streak...If you look REAL REAL REAL close at the crowd over the left field wall in the former Arlington Stadium, you can see ME! We also attended the next game when he failed to go 9 games.

go2guy · Apr 21, 2004

Won't people let the 'roids issue go, obviously he has skills and can pull the hell out of a baseball right out of the yard if you give him a chance. Even if he did 'roids doubt that he would still be doing it now. Love it when people envy clouds the truth. Jerk maybe, gamer most definitely. Want to see a difference look at Giambi and what he's doing this year.

jaypaw · Apr 21, 2004

funny

I only asked when his last test was

and its people who dont want that question answered who are the ones that are actually furthering the entire issue.

although I suppose if he did test negative then started hitting bombs again I could always say the test was fixed...

ahh options options...

Journeyman · Apr 21, 2004

I really doubt very seriously he is still on the juice (if he ever was)

As for Giambi lol, he is NOW Jeremy Giambi!

He pulled the bait and switch on George

Journeyman · Apr 21, 2004

just counting his homers he`s batting just under .250 lmao!

or even more bizzare count his McCovey Cove homers per AB 5/37

RobFunk · Apr 21, 2004

totally agree journey. i knew we'd agree on something eventually. lol

giambi did what it took to get big $$

ive spent lots of time in the fitness forums and they all agree getting big and staying big is all about eating tons and tons of food and working your ass off in the gym and being in tune with your body.

Bonds's body fat % and the fact he's been so injury free leads me to believe he is NOT on steriods.

barry only does 1 thing well though and thats swing the bat. we hear all this talk of greatness in a game that his team lost 9-5 in a home game to the sorry Padres.

does barry steal bases after his walks? NO
does he play the infield and make huge defensive plays, does he make big defensive plays period? NO

Journeyman · Apr 21, 2004

Rob, at this point does it make any sense for Barry to run and possibly get hurt? He was a good base stealer at one time...Also he has won several Gold Gloves....
He is nearing 40 I don`t think its expected he`s still a 5 tool player....

Rob, I thought for a second we did agree but then you responded lol

RobFunk · Apr 21, 2004

no i mean agree on giambi bait and switch and bonds being steriod free.

RobFunk · Apr 21, 2004

what bonds did in 93 and 96 is alot more impressive to me. those are big seasons

Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
1986 PIT 113 413 72 92 26 3 16 48 65 102 36 7 .223 .330 .416 .746
1987 PIT 150 551 99 144 34 9 25 59 54 88 32 10 .261 .329 .492 .821
1988 PIT 144 538 97 152 30 5 24 58 72 82 17 11 .283 .368 .491 .859
1989 PIT 159 580 96 144 34 6 19 58 93 93 32 10 .248 .351 .426 .777
1990 PIT 151 519 104 156 32 3 33 114 93 83 52 13 .301 .406 .565 .970
1991 PIT 153 510 95 149 28 5 25 116 107 73 43 13 .292 .410 .514 .924
1992 PIT 140 473 109 147 36 5 34 103 127 69 39 8 .311 .456 .624 1.080
1993 SFO 159 539 129 181 38 4 46 123 126 79 29 12 .336 .458 .677 1.136
1994 SFO 112 391 89 122 18 1 37 81 74 43 29 9 .312 .426 .647 1.073
1995 SFO 144 506 109 149 30 7 33 104 120 83 31 10 .294 .431 .577 1.009
1996 SFO 158 517 122 159 27 3 42 129 151 76 40 7 .308 .461 .615 1.076
1997 SFO 159 532 123 155 26 5 40 101 145 87 37 8 .291 .446 .585 1.031
1998 SFO 156 552 120 167 44 7 37 122 130 92 28 12 .303 .438 .609 1.047
1999 SFO 102 355 91 93 20 2 34 83 73 62 15 2 .262 .389 .617 1.006
2000 SFO 143 480 129 147 28 4 49 106 117 77 11 3 .306 .440 .688 1.127
2001 SFO 153 476 129 156 32 2 73 137 177 93 13 3 .328 .515 .863 1.379
2002 SFO 143 403 117 149 31 2 46 110 198 47 9 2 .370 .582 .799 1.381
2003 SFO 130 390 111 133 22 1 45 90 148 58 7 0 .341 .529 .749 1.278
2004 SFO 14 37 14 19 5 0 9 19 18 3 0 0 .514 .673 1.378 2.051
Career 2583 8762 1955 2614 541 74 667 1761 2088 1390 500 140 .298 .434 .605 1.040

Journeyman · Apr 21, 2004

He needs 3 seasons...I think he has a 50/50 to make 800!!!

A couple years ago I put up a prop total for Bonds lifetime total, most people thought I was nuts putting the number that high...LOL, I will have to find that thread, I can`t remember the total I put up, it was close to 800 though.