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0 Subject: Home Run in first at bat

Posted by: JeffG
- Sustainer [40451227] Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:06

In Guru's blurb today, he asked if anyone knew who the 17 players to hit a home run on the very first pitch they faced. Yankees.com says that Thames was the 32nd player to do it on the first pitch and the 82nd player to do it in his first at bat. link.

Cannot find that list of first pitch hitters. However, I was able to find the list of the 82 players who hit a home run in their first at bat.

According to baseball-almenac.com, you can find the list of hitters who accomplished this feat here.
1Puckprophet
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:17
thames was the second yank iirc
2JeffG
      Sustainer
      ID: 40451227
      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:22
John Miller was the other Yankee. He only had on other hit as a Yankee and only 1 other homer in his short otherwise unspectacular major league career.
3Guru
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:24
The ESPN recap cited the number 17 (players who had homered on their first major league pitch). I heard the same number mentioned on the Yankees radio broadcast last night, too.
4Khahan
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:29
Ahh, but how many have homered on their 1st pitch against Randy Johnson????
Did do it?
5Puckprophet
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:30
one
6JeffG
      Sustainer
      ID: 40451227
      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:38
I should have looked at my own link more closely. They have in bold the 17 players who did it on the first pitch.

7James K Polk
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 14:44
Not many guys on that list who went on to become good hitters.
8Perm Dude
      Leader
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 15:09
It's a wonder that more aren't hit out, IMO. The first pitch is probably the best a new guy will see.

pd
9JeffG
      Sustainer
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      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 16:31
home run on first pitch
10JeffG
      Sustainer
      ID: 40451227
      Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 16:35
home run in final career at bat. Therefore, on final major league pitch.

The above mentioned John Miller is on this list too meaning he hit two career home runs, one on his first at bat, one on his last.
11blue hen, almighty
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      Wed, Jun 12, 2002, 15:15
Yan, as of now, has hit one in his final at-bat as well. Until he has another one.
12CanEHdian Pride
      Donor
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      Wed, Jun 12, 2002, 21:13
Haven't checked the links but if I'm not mistaken Travis Fryman hit a homerun in his first major league at bat.

I vaguely remembering listening to the game on the radio when I was about 9.
13 Flake
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      Wed, Jun 12, 2002, 22:55
There was a kid from Mississippi named Will Clark, who faced Nolan Ryan in the Astrodome in his debut and knocked it out of the park. I remember the swing, as I was there photographing it. No one has heard of the kid since ... :>
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