Tonight Barry Bonds' slump continues. Bonds went 0 for 4 tonight against the Rockies continuing his slump that has lasted all of May.

April: .356/.536/.814 for a 1.350 OPS, 8 home runs.

May: .172/.435/.345 for a 0.780 OPS, 3 home runs.

As bad as those May numbers have been recently he's been even worse than they look. He is now 0 for 14 in his last 5 games.

The question is: Is this "just a slump" or has age finally caught up with Bonds? After all he is turning 43 not too long from now.

While I'm still holding out a lot of hope for the "just a slump" theory I am getting more and more scared that it may be the latter situation.

So far this season has basically broken into three different periods for Bonds:

He started the season cold. In the Giants first 9 games they were 2-7 and Bonds was hitting .192 with just 1 home run. In the Giants next 13 games they were 10-3 and Bonds hit .500 with 7 home runs. And now in the Giants latest 26 games they are 12-14 and Bonds is hitting .169 with 3 home runs during that span.

So if you really look at his season it's been mostly cold as ice except for one brilliant span when he was amazing. It's that one span that's propping up his season numbers. Going into tonight he was still leading the NL in OPS, OBP, and 3rd in slugging percentage and 5th in home runs.

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