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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Yeah, that's because they usually walked Bonds if anybody was on base. Sometimes even with the bases loaded.
PED's or not, he had a really mind-boggling effect on National League pitching for a while there. To think he did what he did while everybody was blatantly trying to pitch around him.
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It was totally nuts! Regardless of your feelings on the matter, to witness it was awe inspiring. I must have gone to 25-30 games that year and it seemed like he went deep each time.. If not twice. And it seemed those were often his only official at bats in the game. I remember his hitting singles that year that were lasers off the bricks that bounced back to the outfielder too quickly for Bonds to reach 2nd. 232 walks, that was not a fluke and that will not happen again.