Historic HR bridges 2 eras
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SAN FRANCISCO - What Babe Ruth was to the first half of the 20th century and Hank Aaron was to the second, Barry Bonds has become for the home run generation.
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Barry Bonds hit two homers in a game for the first time since 2004 and saved another one from going out of the park with his glove.
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Tejada finished 0-for-4 and had a 13-game hit streak broken...Zaun&#39;s 34 RBI in 2004 ties his career-high set with Kansas City in 2000...Toronto has won six of the seven meetings between the clubs at Camden Yards this season.
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Suzuki is hitting .486 since the All-Star break. He homered for the second time in as many games...Kansas City, which has dropped eight of its last 11 contests, fell to an AL-worst 42-75, while Seattle is just 2 1/2 games better at 45-73...Madritsch ...
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For Barry Bonds, the past two days have been a coronation, a chance to be celebrated before he actually breaks the career home run record.
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A piece of sports history fetches more than auction house estimated but doesn&#39;t break record. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium sold for nearly $1.3
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SEATTLE - Ichiro Suzuki set the major league record for hits in a season with 258, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old mark with a pair of singles Friday night.    The Seattle star chopped a leadoff single in the first inning, then made history with a grounder up the middle in the third...
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Jeff Kent played in San Francisco from 1997 to 2002 and combined with Barry Bonds to become a formidable hitting tandem. But off the field, they were as distant as teammates could be.
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1904 &#151; Jesse Tannehill of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter, beating the Chicago White Sox 6-0.
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1911 &#151; Danny Murphy of Philadelphia had four hits as the Athletics beat the New York Giants 13-2 to win the World Series in six games. The A's put the game out of reach with a seven-run seventh inning.
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It's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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In watching Barry Bonds&#39; rapid ascent up the all-time home run chart in recent years, Hank Aaron took the position that records are made to be broken while saying his career mark of 755 homers has stood long enough.
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Two little, too late for the Boston Red Sox. Boston beat the New York Yankees twice in one day for the first time in 30 years, rallying for a 5-4 victory Sunday night on Mark Loretta's ninth-inning sacrifice fly. In the opener of the team's second straight day-night doubleheader, David Ortiz's league-leading 49th homer and Kevin Youkilis' three-run double in the seventh boosted Boston to a 6-3 win.
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On Tuesday night, Ken Griffey and Barry Bonds  will jog out to their positions in the outfield with a combined 1,337 career homers and an enduring yet ephemeral link to each other.
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Barry Bonds hit his 714th  home run against the Oakland A&#039;s on Saturday, breaking a  two-week slump to tie the legendary Babe Ruth for second place  on Major League Baseball&#039;s all-time homer list.
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds returned to the line-up against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday and belted a pair of home runs to move within two homers of tying Hank Aaron's career mark of 755 roundtrippers.
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1930 &#151; Cleveland's Earl Averill drove in eight runs with three consecutive home runs to lead the Indians to a 13-7 victory over the Washington Senators in a doubleheader opener. Averill added another homer in the nightcap, which the Senators took 6-4, and set an American League record with 11 RBIs in the twinbill.