You never forget your first
Giants 7, Rockies 1
About 2,000 miles separated their major league debuts.
Joshua Báez in Chicago, Turner Hill in San Francisco.
Báez, a top prospect for the Cardinals, blasted the first pitch of his career for a home run.
Hill, who doesn’t even have a headshot on his MLB.com page, rolled a ground ball to second base.
Báez went on to hit two more home runs, becoming the first player ever to hit three homers in his first game.
Hill didn’t make history to anyone but himself. He finished Saturday hitless but put the Giants ahead with a sac fly.
His final line: 0 for 3, RBI, K
Baez’s line: 3 for 4, 3 HR, 5 RBI
Buster Posey also went 0 for 3 in his first start. And the three-homer club this year is full of luminaries like Ryan O’Hearn and Colt Keith.
Debuts mean everything, unless they mean nothing.
Up next: Blade Tidwell continues his audition to make next year’s rotation. Last game of the season against the Rockies. First pitch at 1:05 pm.
Podcast: Kerry and I swap Mike Krukow memories and moments as he winds down his time in the booth. We also dive into takeaways from The Athletic’s big Buster Posey story and, as always, walk down memory lane to the Wall of Fame. Listen on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else.