Bonds wastes no time clubbing No. 757
08/08/2007 10:42 PM ET
Bonds wastes no time clubbing No. 757
Slugger belts Splash Hit less than 24 hours after record-breaker
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
Barry Bonds clubs his 757th career homer, a two-run shot in the first.
(Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO -- The record only lasted about 23 hours.
In his first at-bat since setting Major League Baseball's all-time homer mark
Tuesday night, Giants slugger Barry Bonds one-upped himself Wednesday and
began to create some distance from Hank Aaron.
Bonds hit his 757th homer, a two-run shot and 23rd of the season, into McCovey
Cove. The 438-foot "Splash Hit" over the right-field fence wall off Nationals
right-hander Tim Redding was his 35th to reach the cove since AT&T Park
opened in 2000 and second of the season. The Giants have hit 45 to the water
as a team.
Redding was the 447th pitcher to allow at least one homer to Bonds in his
22-year career, the last 15 with the Giants.
It was the first time Bonds has hit homers in successive at-bats since April
13 at Pittsburgh, during his first of two two-homer games this season. He now
has three homers in his last four starts, dating back to Saturday night's
record-tying shot in San Diego. Through the first inning Wednesday, he had
pounded out four consecutive hits -- a double, single and the two homers --
over the course of the last two games.
Bonds eclipsed Aaron's 33-year record of 755 in the fifth inning Tuesday night
with his 435-foot homer into the bleachers just right of dead center off
Washington left-hander Mike Bacsik.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject
to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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