Bonds 755 home run tying Hank Aaron
Two of MLB baseball’s hottest sluggers reached a couple of milestones last Saturday as Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs while Barry Bonds has finally tied Hank Aaron for the all-time MLB home run record after hitting No.755.
Tying Hank Aaron’s record on the road lined up Barry Bonds to be crowned the home run king in his Northern California comfort zone.
He’ll get his first chance at 756 on Monday night, when the San Francisco Giants @ Washington Nationals in an opener of a four-game series. Bonds said he had heard of Washington’s starter for the first game, rookie left-hander John Lannan, but that’s about it.
As for that other milestone reached last weekend, New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez hit No.500 on the same day Bonds hit his 755th, becoming the youngest player ever to reach 500 home runs. And yep, it is because of that reason that makes A-Rod’s milestone better than Bonds.
The New York Yankees third baseman is the youngest player ever to reach 500 home runs, belting out No.500 eight days after his 32nd birthday. That’s two years and five months younger than Hank Aaron when he hit his 500th home run, three years and 10 months younger than Mark McGwire when he hit his 500th, and more importantly, FOUR YEARS and EIGHT MONTHS younger than Barry Bonds when he hit No.500.
That means, if there’s anyone more likely to surpass Bonds’ historic 755th home run last Saturday, it would have to be Alex Rodriguez. Heck, this guy can do absolutely nothing until Labor Day 2009 and he’d still have more home runs than any of those guys at the same age.
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