# How many home runs will Barry Bonds hit this season? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231 "2001-06-10T00:01:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/161 "2001-10-05T22:05:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*IMHO, pitching 7 no-hitters in a career is just as remarkable an achievement as hitting 755 homers or getting 4,256 hits or 2,246 runs or… > > You get the idea. \*\* Just think about that - Ryan holds the record with 7 no-hitters. There are teams without that many no-hitters in their history! One guy, in 27 years of pitching, racked up more no-hitters than entire teams. The Angels have 7 no-hitters as a team and 4 of them are Ryan’s. The Tigers only have 5 no-hitters, the Royals have 4, the Twins have 6 (going back to Walter Johnson when they were known as the Senators), etc. IIRC, Ryan was also 43 when he pitched that 7th no-hitter, setting another record as the oldest person to pitch a no-hitter. Sandy Koufax is #2 on the list with 4 no-hitters. Does anyone else have more than 2? ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/162 "2001-10-06T03:34:02Z")
No cite yet, it just happened. Bonds hit 71. If he ends the season on that number, I wonder how many yahoos are going to bring up McGwire’s homer that got called back in '98 due to (what the umpire said) fan interference. Now that Bonds has broken the record, I’d like to see him hit 72 so no one can lessen Bonds’s feat by bringing that up. ---
**Author:** ![Czaoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Czaoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czaoth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/163 "2001-10-06T03:40:38Z")
Here’s a link. [ESPN.com: MLB - Bonds smashes No. 71 and keeps on going](http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2001/1005/1260113.html) Now to go celebrate 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czaoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Czaoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czaoth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/164 "2001-10-06T04:11:42Z")
He **JUST** hit #72 Just happened no links yet. [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) should have it on front page in a sec. He isn’t just beating the record he is destorying it. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/165 "2001-10-06T04:20:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czaoth \* > \*\*He isn’t just beating the record he is destorying it. \*\* Well, 2 HRs over the record isn’t quite destroying it yet. He’s still got about 2 and a half games to do that. And to quote myself: > [@](#): > > Now that Bonds has broken the record, I’d like to see him hit 72 so no one can lessen Bonds’s feat by bringing that up [McGwire’s called-back homer]. Well, that’s been taken care of. Hey, if I post I’d like to see him hit 73, do you think he’ll do it on the next at bat? Let’s test my theory: I’d like to see Bonds hit 73. Now we wait… ---
**Author:** ![Czaoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Czaoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czaoth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/166 "2001-10-06T04:39:29Z")
Destroying it is too strong a word right now 🙂 Twice in a game to go over the record is very good though. And as you said a couple more games to do even more in. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/167 "2001-10-06T07:56:37Z")
Okay, maybe I was a little harsh. Still, I can’t but help but be miffed everytime someone gets unfairly shut out. What, adding a couple pages to the sports section for a once-in-a-lifetime event is too much to ask? And as far as McGwire’s walk record goes, I remember there being _two_ major leagues. So Bonds did, in fact, break a 78 year old record held by Babe Ruth. Saw it on ESPN. You got beef, take it up with them. Sheesh, and I thought the NFL Predictions people were high-strung. I’m outta here… …oh, and congratulations to Barry Bonds for setting TWO season records. Whatever you think of his personality, this is a remarkable accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/168 "2001-10-06T18:56:33Z")
Barry did it. You might think that I, who practically bleed orange and black, would be ecstatic. But I’m not. The Giants were eliminated from contention last night. I would trade every single one of those home runs for a World Series win. And I think Barry would, too. I started following the Giants seriously when I was eight, in 1987. They won the NL West that year, but lost to the Cardinals in the NLCS, beginning a fifteen-year long streak of Breaking Kyla’s Heart. Every year, they manage to do it in new and interesting ways, like getting swept in a World Series no one remembers for the baseball, being sold to Tampa Bay, winning 103 games and not making the playoffs, or hey, that time they had the best record in the majors only to fall apart in the first round of the NLDS. Those all hurt. I am really amazed at the one they pulled off this year, though. I got to watch one of the best personal seasons in the history of baseball, but at the end, it’s that familiar sinking feeling of knowing that once again, this is not The Year. I’m supposed to be happy, I guess, but I’m actually near tears. Back to waiting til next year. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231/169 "2001-10-09T17:51:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > **If he stays healthy, I say the guy has a chance of hitting more than 70.** If y’all don’t mind, I shall be insufferably pleased with myself for about a week. My only regret is that I didn’t go to Vegas to bet on it. I thought about reviewing the thread and see who was right and who was wrong, but, on reflection, decided that would be tacky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-home-runs-will-barry-bonds-hit-this-season/68231.md?page=8)