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SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants slugger Barry Bonds quickly picked up the chase for Hank Aaron in his fifth plate appearance of the season Wednesday night, smacking his 735th home run with two out and no one on in the first inning against Padres starter Chris Young.
Bonds now trails Aaron by 20 homers. The Hammer hit 755 in his 23-year career that ended in 1976.
Bonds, beginning his 22nd season -- the last 15 with the Giants -- hit his first homer in the team's second game. Last year, one in which he returned from a trifecta of 2005 surgeries on his right knee, Bonds didn't hit his initial homer until April 22 at Colorado. It was the club's 17th game. It also took him until May 28 to hit seven, giving him 715 to pass Babe Ruth into second.
Bonds homered to left-center on a 2-and-2 pitch off Young in relatively the same spot at AT&T Park that he smacked his 700th against Padres ace Jake Peavy on Sept. 17, 2004. It was his 86th homer against the Padres, far and away his most against any team, and 145th in the park that opened on McCovey Cove in time for the 2000 season. The latter figure is also the most he's hit in any yard.
The homer was his first against Young, making the right-hander the 435th pitcher to allow a homer in Bonds' career.
Bonds now trails Aaron by 20 homers. The Hammer hit 755 in his 23-year career that ended in 1976.
Bonds, beginning his 22nd season -- the last 15 with the Giants -- hit his first homer in the team's second game. Last year, one in which he returned from a trifecta of 2005 surgeries on his right knee, Bonds didn't hit his initial homer until April 22 at Colorado. It was the club's 17th game. It also took him until May 28 to hit seven, giving him 715 to pass Babe Ruth into second.
Bonds homered to left-center on a 2-and-2 pitch off Young in relatively the same spot at AT&T Park that he smacked his 700th against Padres ace Jake Peavy on Sept. 17, 2004. It was his 86th homer against the Padres, far and away his most against any team, and 145th in the park that opened on McCovey Cove in time for the 2000 season. The latter figure is also the most he's hit in any yard.
The homer was his first against Young, making the right-hander the 435th pitcher to allow a homer in Bonds' career.
