Barry Bonds and the Atlana Braves
Several months ago, many was predicting this would be the series where Barry Bonds would break Hank Aaron’s all time homerun record. It doesn’t really look like that now, since Bonds has been in a slump lately. Many picked this series with the Braves because Barry would be playing in front of the home fans and would be breaking the record of Hank Aaron who hit the go ahead homer over Babe Ruth as a Brave to become the homerun king of Major League Baseball.
Now by no means is it out of the question that he couldn’t break Hammering Hank’s Homerun record, it’s just unlikely. Barry just needs 2 homers to tie Hank Aaron and 3 to go ahead of him. This is a 4 game series, so just hitting a homer each game would do it, and he could even have a game where he doesn’t play or doesn’t hit a homerun. He would just have to get hotter than he has been showing at the plate. I think even if he doesn’t break the record, but if he could just tie the record, it would mean something to Barry Bonds. I think just tying the all time homerun record against the Braves would give Barry some pleasure. I think more than anything now, it’s just doing it this year some time is Barry’s main focus. He would be in the worse slump of his career if he didn’t manage to hit 3 homeruns over the next 70 or 80 games that the Giants have left in the season.
Now from what I am hearing is that the commissioner Bud Selig will not be at tonight’s game. I’m sure Hank will be watching on the Braves tv station to see how Barry does tonight and throughout this 4 game series. It should be interesting to see what approach Barry takes against the Braves. Bobby Cox will rotate the whole infield around and will give Bond’s the 3rd base line. Barry can hit grounders at 3rd base for singles all day long, but I’m sure the infield-shift won’t stop him from trying to pull the ball over the right field fence. Buckle up if your a Giant’s Fan, because every at-bat from now until the record is broken is going to be getting national coverage and the whole country will be watching every single at-bat as Barry Bonds tries to make history.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
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