Bye-bye Babe!
May. 28th, 2006 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
715!!!
Barry did it!!!
Barry did it!!!
No. 715 played out exactly the way Barry Bonds wanted: He hit it at home, in front of the fans who love him.
It just took him a little longer than he hoped it would.
The San Francisco slugger moved past Babe Ruth on the career home run list with a mammoth shot Sunday, and now stands behind just one person.
Hank Aaron owns baseball's most revered record with 755 homers. And so the debate begins: Will Bonds stick around long enough to break it?
"If you keep playing long enough anything is possible," Bonds said, wearing a new 715 shirt and cap. "I'd like to win a World Series and be home run king. I'd like to do both. I would take a World Series first."
Bonds' latest milestone — a mightier homer than No. 714 — was a 445-foot, two-run shot to center before a sellout crowd. The homer came on the last day before the Giants begin a road trip to Florida and New York.