He hammered five in the past two games, tying another major league mark. After Saturday's game, during which he cranked out three homers and a double, Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones put it as simply as anyone ever has about Bonds. It was a little more than a month ago, on April 17, when Bonds plunked career homer No. 500 into San Francisco Bay. Now he has 516, which puts him 13th on the all-time list. The Top 10 is not far away.
Bonds can be a maddening guy, surly at times and standoffish at others.
He's an unabashed testament to cockiness in the pro athlete. Back in 1998, Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling, then with the Phillies, ripped him for stealing a base when the Giants had a big lead. Well, not yet. Bonds has driven in at least 100 runs in nine of the past 11 years. He has had at least 25 home runs every year since 1990.