Comments on: 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Barry Bonds

By: duckshirt

duckshirt — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:42:25 +0000

Speaking of in-the-park homers, I was really hoping Bonds would hit one off the boardwalk that would take some weird bounce (like Ichiro's hit in the All-Star Game) and see him chug around the bases and bowl over the catcher for the home run record. But oh well, maybe A-Rod will do that someday.

By: Stat of the Day » Comparing the Bonds challengers

Stat of the Day » Comparing the Bonds challengers — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:49:05 +0000

[...] Chris’ excellent post about Bonds yesterday, he pointed out that Bonds’ longest homer-less streaks were 27 games in the [...]

By: djhosu

djhosu — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:03:01 +0000

Mike Bacsik Sr. against players who have 755 home runs:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/pvb.cgi?n2=aaronha01&n1=bacsimi01

Mike Bacsik Jr. against player who have 755 home runs:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/pvb.cgi?n2=bondsba01&n1=bacsimi02

Aaron had already hit #755 when he faced Bacsik Sr. in August of 1976. He would only collect 4 more hits before retiring.

Pretty cool distinction for a father/son duo.

By: cchien

cchien — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:43:20 +0000

Bonds has 610 1-HR games, 67 2-HR games, and 4 3-HR games in his career so far. 610 1-HR games is absolutely MLB record. No doubt. However, do you know whether his 67 2-HR games is also MLB record? I can't figure it out in B-R because some players have no HR log, such as Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott. Not sure what's the distribution of their HRs. In addition, for 3-HR games, Sammy Sosa has 6 3-HR games in his career. Is this also a MLB record?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:55:44 +0000

Also, I like the "Big Head Era". That's a nice PC term we should all adopt. It's probably also worth pointing out that there's no evidence that Rick Sutcliffe is a continuing user of alcohol or any other drug.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:07:15 +0000

Chris--I'm glad you wrote it because I don't have too much to say on the topic.

I will say this, though: of all of his walkoff homers, the one he hit against Lee Smith was by far the most memorable. That was the one where he thrust both of his arms straight into the air immediately after hitting the ball. (And that was back when Lee Smith was a serious hombre.)

By: Dave Copeland » Blog Archive » All about Barry

Dave Copeland » Blog Archive » All about Barry — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:39:58 +0000

[...] Interesting statistics on Barry Bonds over at Baseball Stat of the Day (which is quickly becoming a favorite site): 1) Longest stretch without a homer: 27 games. Way back in the 1980s, when he was a young’un he did it twice. In the Big Head era, it’s only 14 games. Happened earlier this year in fact. No fun getting old. [...]