Top five

Numbers Barry Bonds is working on:

1 4--times all season Bonds has gone 0-for-4 and not reached base. Once a month in May, June, July and August.

2 36--strikeouts, a career low. His lowest total for a full nonstrike season is 47 in 2002. Bonds has struck out twice in a game only two times this season.

3 105--intentional walks, That's 45 more than the top team behind the Giants (the Cardinals) and 80 more than the No. 2 player (Jim Thome).

4 344--times on base. Bonds reaches an average of more than 2.5 times a game. Still, he's going to have to pick up the pace to reach Babe Ruth's record of 379 times on base, set in 1924. No other player is reaching an average of twice a game.

5 800--home runs. If he continues on his 2004 pace of 145 games and one home run every 3.1 games, Bonds will finish this year with 704 homers, 2005 with 750 and 2006 with 796. That means 800 would have to wait 'til 2007, when Bonds will be 42 at the start of the season.

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