Baseball Guru
08-28-2002, 08:02 AM
DENVER (AP) - Barry Bonds homered three times against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night, including the third-longest home run hit at Coors Field.
The San Francisco Giants slugger hit a 492-foot drive in the first inning off Colorado Rockies starter Denny Stark. The ball hit the wall well behind the center-field fence.
The only longer homers at Coors Field, which opened in 1995, were hit by Mike Piazza (496 feet on Sept. 26, 1997) and Larry Walker (493 feet on Aug. 31, 1997).
Bonds walked in the third, then homered again in the sixth off Stark, a 430-foot drive that hit the facing above the first deck in right-center.
He homered again in the seventh, a 390-foot shot into the lower deck in right field off Kent Mercker. Bonds had gone 31 plate appearances and 30 at-bats without a home run off Mercker.
With a chance to tie the record for homers, Bonds doubled in the ninth against Todd Jones, hitting a flare to left field.
It was the fourth three-homer game of Bonds' career and gave him 38 homers this year and 605 in his career. He is fourth on the career list, trailing only Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (660
The San Francisco Giants slugger hit a 492-foot drive in the first inning off Colorado Rockies starter Denny Stark. The ball hit the wall well behind the center-field fence.
The only longer homers at Coors Field, which opened in 1995, were hit by Mike Piazza (496 feet on Sept. 26, 1997) and Larry Walker (493 feet on Aug. 31, 1997).
Bonds walked in the third, then homered again in the sixth off Stark, a 430-foot drive that hit the facing above the first deck in right-center.
He homered again in the seventh, a 390-foot shot into the lower deck in right field off Kent Mercker. Bonds had gone 31 plate appearances and 30 at-bats without a home run off Mercker.
With a chance to tie the record for homers, Bonds doubled in the ninth against Todd Jones, hitting a flare to left field.
It was the fourth three-homer game of Bonds' career and gave him 38 homers this year and 605 in his career. He is fourth on the career list, trailing only Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (660