<P> Prior to the 2017 season, as part of Major League Baseball's efforts to improve the pace of play, the rules were amended to allow a manager to order an intentional walk by simply signaling the umpire . </P> <P> Barry Bonds holds most of the records for intentional walks, including four in a nine - inning game (2004), 120 in a season (2004), and 668 in his career (more than the next two players on the all - time list, Albert Pujols (302) and Hank Aaron (293), combined). Bonds, a prolific home run hitter, was a common target for the intentional walk . Nevertheless, many times the decision to walk Bonds was a futile strategy, as the San Francisco Giants still had the National League's second - best offense in 2004, scoring 820 runs . In the first month of the 2004 baseball season, Bonds drew 43 walks, 22 of them intentional . He broke his previous record of 68 intentional walks, set in 2002, on July 10, 2004 in his last appearance before the All - Star break . </P> <P> There are claims that Mel Ott was also intentionally walked four times in a game against the Phillies in 1929 (see below). </P> <P> Hideki Matsui drew five consecutive intentional walks in a game in Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium in 1992 and became a nationwide topic of conversation . </P>

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