You know that Ichiro Suzuki set a new DMBL hitting streak record after smacking base hits in 33 straight games. But Did You Know what other batting records are under siege this year?

Batting Average

2005 Carlos Guillen (.386) vs 1993 Deion Sanders (.384)
The league's leading hitter, Newark's Carlos Guillen, could set a new all-time record if he keeps up his current torrid pace in Batting Average. Even if he hits "only" around .320 for the rest of the season, he will still set a new DMB Era (1997-present), slipping past Arkansas's Frank Thomas (.365) in 1998. Actually, Thomas's record is under siege from a couple other batters as well: Arkansas's Barry Bonds (.373) also is on pace to pass him, and Phoenix's Ichiro Suzuki (.365) is right on target.

On-Base Percentage

2005 Barry Bonds (.542) vs 2003 Barry Bonds (.522)
In 2002, Arkansas's Barry Bonds was the first man in the history of the league -- DMB or Microleague -- to reach base more than 50 percent of the time (mininum 502 PA), with a .520 On Base Percentage. He broke that record the following year, reaching base 52.2% of the time. At his current pace this year, Bonds will break it again! It appears that, no matter what, Bonds will remain the only player with a season OBP above .500; the next-closest batter this year is Newark's J.T. Snow, with a .456 OBP.

Slugging Percentage

2005 Barry Bonds (.786) vs 2002 Barry Bonds (.890)
Barry Bonds also became the first player in the history of the game to post an .800+ Slugging Percentage, performing that feat in 2002. With a hot final quarter of the season, he could theoretically top .800 again, but there's no way he'll break his 2002 record: he'd need 170 total bases over the remaining 49 games, a slugging percentage of 1.133 over about 150 at-bats! As a side note, if he can put up those kinds of numbers down the home stretch, Bonds also would likely break Sammy Sosa's 1999 record for total bases (449), though he wouldn't come close to the all-time record set by Newark's Ryan Klesko in 1996 (521).

On-Base Plus Slugging

2005 Barry Bonds (1.328) vs 2002 Barry Bonds (1.410)
If Barry Bonds does break his Slugging Percentage record, he'd also likely set the On-Base Plus Slugging record: His current OBP of .542 (a record-setting pace as noted above) plus .892 would give him 1.434 for a new league record. Actually, because of his high OBP this year, Bonds might break his OPS record even with a SLG of "only" .868, but that would still require him to slug about 1.000 the rest of the way. 

Runs Scored

2005 Bobby Abreu (133) vs 1997 Chuck Knoblauch (163)
The Runs Scored record is actually held by two Golden Falcons -- in 2002, Barry Bonds tied Chuck Knoblauch's DMBL record of 163 (though it should be noted this statistic wasn't kept in the offense-crazy early 1990s). But the tie at the top might be falling this season, as Newark's Bobby Abreu needs just 31 runs in 64 games to break it. Abreu averages 1.13 runs per game, on pace to score a record-shattering 183 runs this season. But don't count out Bonds yet; he ranks second with 116 runs scored, and is on pace to score 170 times this season. If Abreu falters, Barry could be the one setting the record.

Runs Batted In

2005 Manny Ramirez (131) vs 1999 Sammy Sosa (181)
The all-time record, set during the Microleague Era, is 225 RBIs by Newark's Ryan Klesko in 1996. We can assume that record is safe. But what about the modern record of 181 RBIs, set in 1999 by Vancouver's Sammy Sosa? Newark's Manny Ramirez is driving in 1.11 runs per game, a pace that would give him 180 RBIs -- one shy of Sosa's record! It's within reach, but Ramirez would have to turn it up a notch and remain healthy the rest of the year.

Hits

2005 Ichiro Suzuki (190) vs 1997 Jim Eisenreich (238)
Phoenix's Ichiro Suzuki already knocked off one of Jim Eisenreich's records from 1997, with a hit in 33 consecutive games. So why not break another? It's almost guaranteed that Ichiro will come up with at least 49 hits in his remaining 47 games -- he'd have to hit less than .230 the rest of the way to come up short, and Ichiro is currently hitting .365 this season. 734 AB. If Ichiro keeps up his .365 BA pace, he'd finish the season with 268 hits, smashing Eisenreich's record but well short of the all-time record of 295 hits set by Cheyenne's Deion Sanders in his crazy 1993 season. 

Doubles

2005 Aaron Rowand (46) vs 2000 Terry Shumpert (69)
A dozen players have collected 60 or more doubles in a season, but will anyone ever reach 70? That's the magic number needed to eclipse Terry Shumpert's 69 two-baggers with Jerusalem (Stanhope) in 2000. The league's current doubles leader, Hoboken's Aaron Rowand, has 46 -- on target for about 64 doubles. That would be the most in a season since Honolulu's Jason Giambi smacked 65 two-baggers in '02, but Rowand needs to turn it up a notch to pass Shumpert. 

Triples

2005 Ben Broussard (16) vs 2002 Juan Uribe (20)
There's no need to even speculate if anyone will ever touch the all-time record of 62 triples -- that's right, 62 triples -- set by Deion Sanders in 1993. But the DMB Era record of 20, set by Phoenix's Juan Uribe in 2002, appears very vulnerable -- Carolina's Randy Winn came up just short in 2003, with 19 triples. This year, Columbia's Ben Broussard has 16 triples with 45 games remaining, a pace that would give him 22 triples. Las Vegas's Carl Crawford (14) and Columbia's Chone Figgins (13) are also within sight of the record, but need to get more aggressive on the basepaths if they're going to challenge it. 

Home Runs

2005 Barry Bonds (39) vs 1999 Sammy Sosa (73)
In league history, only three men have hit 70 or more home runs in a season: Newark's Mark McGwire, who set the all-time mark with 84 in 1996; Vancouver's Sammy Sosa, who set the DMB Era record with 73 in 1999; and Arkansas's Barry Bonds, who came up just 1 HR short in 2002 with 72. (McGwire is the only guy to do it twice, hitting 70 in 1998.) No one appears likely to join that group this season, let alone setting a new longball record; Barry Bonds leads the league in home runs (39) and HR/AB (9.0), but at his current pace he'd have just 57 home runs this season. However, that would give Bonds the second-highest season total of his career, behind only his 72 in '02.

Walks

2005 Barry Bonds (124) vs 1996 Mark McGwire (176)
Well, if Barry Bonds can't homer his way into the record books, he certainly can walk in. Bonds is by far the league leader with 123 free passes -- Bobby Abreu, with 100, is the only other player in triple digits -- and is on pace to break not only his own single-season DMB Era record of 172 walks (2003), but also the all-time record of 176 walks, set by Newark's Mark McGwire in 1996. At his current rate of 1.17 walks per game, Bonds would draw 181 walks this season, provided he plays in all 49 of his team's remaining games. 

Strikeouts

2005 Adam Dunn (176) vs 1999 Mark McGwire (232)
 Adam Dunn has been producing for Hillsborough (.287, .371 OBP, .600 SLG, 37 HR, 108 RBI), but he's also been doing a lot of swinging and missing. He leads the league with 176 strikeouts, a pace that would give him a record-breaking 244 Ks this season. He won't touch Rob Deer's 357 strikeouts for the Waikiki Keys in 1993, but he is well on his way to passing Mark McGwire's 232 strikeouts in 1999, the DMB Era record. 

Stolen Bases

2005 Carl Crawford (27) vs 1997 Kenny Lofton (78)
Vancouver's Kenny Lofton set a DMBL record in 1997 that will likely stand for quite some time. In fact, it may be one of the most untouchable of DMB Era records. This season, just two teams are on pace to steal more than 78 bases! As far as individual players go, the league leader -- Las Vegas's Carl Crawford, with 27 -- is on pace to swipe less than half of Lofton's '97 total. 

Stolen Base Percentage

2005 Bobby Abreu (.958) vs 2000 Matt Lawton (.941)
Other than Crawford, the only other player with at least 20 steals this season is Newark's Bobby Abreu. And while Abreu's pace is for just 32 steals this season, he is on track of setting a league record of his own: Stolen Base Percentage. Abreu has 23 steals and has been caught just once, an astonishing .958 success rate -- just ahead of the most successful thief of all time (minimum 20 attempts), Hillsborough's Matt Lawton in '00, who stole 32 bases and was caught just twice (.941). Abreu can set a new record even if he doesn't attempt another stolen base this year, but if he runs and gets caughts just once more, he'll have to steal 10 in a row to tie Lawton again. Lawton's record must be regarded as the all-time mark because SB% can't be calculated for the early years of the league, when caught stealing totals aren't available.

The Triple Crown

Barry Bonds is the only player to have won either the traditional Triple Crown (batting average, home runs and runs batted in) or the so-called Sabermetric Triple Crown (batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage). No player had ever done either before; Bonds accomplished both in 2002 and came very close in 2003 (first in BA and OBP, but second in SLG, RBI; third in HR). Bonds has a shot at both titles again this year. For the traditional Crown, Bonds is first in HR, second in BA and second in RBI; for the Sabermetric, Bonds is first in OBP and SLG, and again, second in BA.