I have covered 17 San Francisco Giants games this year, but, truthfully, I’ve really covered 17 of Barry Bonds’s games. There would have been no reason to cover the last-place Giants so much if Bonds’s were not pursuing Hank Aaron’s record for career home runs.
The last Bonds game I covered was in San Francisco on Wednesday night, when, of course, he hit his 757th homer. It was a majestic home run, a bullet that blazed down the right-field line and plopped into McCovey Cove.
One day earlier, Bonds broke Aaron’s record with a homer off Chris Bacsik of the Washington Nationals. It was a no-doubt-about-it homer to right-center, a replay we’ve all seen numerous times. It gave Bonds 756 homers and the top spot on the home run pedestal.
Anyway, after traveling from San Francisco to New Jersey on Thursday (into Friday morning), I was happy to see my bed for the first time in two weeks. But by Friday night, I decided to check in on Bonds. The Giants were facing the Pittsburgh Pirates and Matt Morris, a pitcher San Francisco traded last week.
So what happened? Bonds went deep again. The first at-bat that I watched on TV was Bonds’s second at -bat in the game, and he lifted a two-run homer. Whether in San Francisco or New Jersey, I had now witnessed or seen Bonds smash homers in the last three games that he started.
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The last Bonds game I covered was in San Francisco on Wednesday night, when, of course, he hit his 757th homer. It was a majestic home run, a bullet that blazed down the right-field line and plopped into McCovey Cove.
One day earlier, Bonds broke Aaron’s record with a homer off Chris Bacsik of the Washington Nationals. It was a no-doubt-about-it homer to right-center, a replay we’ve all seen numerous times. It gave Bonds 756 homers and the top spot on the home run pedestal.
Anyway, after traveling from San Francisco to New Jersey on Thursday (into Friday morning), I was happy to see my bed for the first time in two weeks. But by Friday night, I decided to check in on Bonds. The Giants were facing the Pittsburgh Pirates and Matt Morris, a pitcher San Francisco traded last week.
So what happened? Bonds went deep again. The first at-bat that I watched on TV was Bonds’s second at -bat in the game, and he lifted a two-run homer. Whether in San Francisco or New Jersey, I had now witnessed or seen Bonds smash homers in the last three games that he started.
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