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RubeBaker
06-12-2007, 05:21 PM
Current major league pitchers Esteban Yan and Adam Wainwright have both accomplished what feat?
oaklandman666
06-12-2007, 05:26 PM
Hitting a Home Run in their first major League at-bat?
RubeBaker
06-12-2007, 05:34 PM
That was quick. You are on the right track, very close, but a little more than that...
Dirt Dog
06-12-2007, 06:15 PM
Yan and Wainwright each hit a HR on the 1st pitch in their 1st AB in the majors.
oaklandman666
06-12-2007, 06:21 PM
I remember Yan's off the back of a 2001 Topps team card. Hit it against the Mets. Good job DirtDog. Hell, I was close...
RubeBaker
06-13-2007, 09:05 AM
Yan and Wainwright each hit a HR on the 1st pitch in their 1st AB in the majors.
Correct. 4 other pitchers have accomplished this though. Can you name them?
Captain Cold Nose
06-13-2007, 09:13 AM
Was Hoyt Wilhelm's on the first pitch? That's the only pitcher I know off the top of my head who hit a HR in his first AB.
Dalkowski110
06-13-2007, 12:04 PM
Hoyt Wilhelm and Jim Bullinger both homered in their first MLB at-bats.
RubeBaker
06-13-2007, 01:43 PM
Let me correct myself now, 5 other pitchers have done the feat.
Wilhelm is probably the best known for his first AB home run because of his HoF status, but no, it was not the first pitch.
Jim Bullinger on the other hand, did on the first pitch for the Cubs 06-08-1992.
Any other guesses?
Old Sweater
06-13-2007, 05:20 PM
Jason Jennings?
RubeBaker
06-13-2007, 08:06 PM
Jason Jennings?
Good hitting pitcher, but no. Remember, Yan and Wainwright are the only active pitchers to have done it.
Old Sweater
06-14-2007, 04:05 AM
Good hitting pitcher, but no. Remember, Yan and Wainwright are the only active pitchers to have done it.
Just remembered that Jennings threw a shutout and hit a HR in his 1st game, anyways I think he did.
Utter Chaos
06-14-2007, 08:28 AM
Jim Bullinger
Clise Dudley
Bill Lefebvre
Don Rose
Gene Stechschulte
RubeBaker
06-14-2007, 11:10 AM
Chaos has it.