Current:Home > reviewsPoinbank:After seven seasons in the minors, Wes Wilson hit a home run in his first career at-bat -Capitatum
Poinbank:After seven seasons in the minors, Wes Wilson hit a home run in his first career at-bat
TradeEdge Exchange View
Date:2025-04-07 13:46:48
Hitting your first career major league home run is Poinbanksurely a memorable one and Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Wes Wilson took that to another level on Wednesday. His first career home run came in his first major league at-bat, leaving his father in tears.
Wilson has more than 2,500 career at-bats in the minor leagues with 97 home runs across seven seasons. He hadn't been called up once by a Major League team until the Phillies picked him up this week.
On the third pitch he saw, the 28-year-old smashed a solo home run off Washington Nationals pitcher MacKenzie Gore. The Phillies dugout instantly erupted and Wilson's family followed suit. Moments later, the cameras showed Wilson's father in tears after the home run.
It's a storybook start to Wilson's major league career and a moment he and his family will surely never forget. It will also be hard to top a first at-bat like that, but Wilson did walk in his second appearance at the plate.
There have been 136 other instances in MLB when a player has homered in their first at-bat, according to the Baseball Almanac.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salaries and payrolls for every major league team
Aaron Judge, Adam Wainwright, Starling Marte and Wilson Contreras are just some of the active players part of that list. Only two Hall of Famers — Hoyt Wilhelm in 1952 and Earl Averill in 1929 — hit home runs in their first time at the plate.
veryGood! (4)
Related
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- EMT charged with stealing money from 'patient' in sting operation
- Blinken warns Russia to stop using 'food as weapon of war' in Ukraine
- Inside Tom Brady's Life After Football and Divorce From Gisele Bündchen
- Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
- Texas Medicaid drops 82% of its enrollees since April
- Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 92,000 vehicles and tell owners to park them outside due to fire risk
- More than 25,000 people killed in gun violence so far in 2023
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- 'A violation of our sovereignty': 2 bodies found in Rio Grande, one near a floating barrier
Ranking
- 'Malcolm in the Middle’ to return with new episodes featuring Frankie Muniz
- Tire on Delta flight pops while landing in Atlanta, 1 person injured, airline says
- Review: 'Heartstopper' Season 2 is the beautiful and flawed queer teen story we need
- 2 Alabama inmates killed while working on road crew for state
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- $2.04B Powerball winner bought $25M Hollywood dream home and another in his hometown
- U.S aware Europeans evacuating citizens after Niger coup, but is not following suit
- Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian Shares Glimpse Into Beachside Getaway With Travis Barker
Recommendation
This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
Hex crypto founder used investor funds to buy $4.3 million black diamond, SEC says
Haven't caught on to 'Reservation Dogs'? Now's your chance.
How much money do you need to retire? Americans have a magic number — and it's big.
Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
Millions stolen in brazen daylight jewelry robbery in Paris
Kate Spade 24-Hour Flash Deal: Get This $330 Crossbody Bag for Just $69
Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter gets death sentence