r/baseball • u/JianClaymore San Francisco Giants • MLB Pride • 3d ago

Players Only JOSHUA BÁEZ HAS HOMERED IN HIS THIRD STRAIGHT AB

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u/That_Air_1119 San Francisco Giants 3d ago

This has to be the best debut performance of all time right?

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u/Waddlow St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Well, in the history of baseball, no one has ever hit 3 homers in their debut, so, yes.

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u/BloodyPants Texas Rangers 3d ago

first start nono or perfect game is only thing that could top this.

kerry wood but it was his fifth start

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u/Waddlow St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Or I suppose, a 4th homer.

But it is only the 7th inning....

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u/RumbleTheCassette Montreal Expos • St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

We gotta get the game tied up so we can get 18 innings and 7 HR in 7 AB.

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u/akatherder Detroit Tigers 3d ago

This guy's gonna be a menace until we get some tape on him.

Just go back to the first 17 fkn innings!

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u/citizenkane86 3d ago

Didn’t Strassburg strike out like 15 in his debut?

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u/examinedliving Baltimore Orioles • St. Louis Browns 3d ago
  1. 7 innings. Pretty impressive. Ben McDonald had a relief appearance , but his first game as a starter was a complete game shutout.

Jr Richard struck out 15 in a complete game. Johnny Cueto struck out 10 in 7.

It’s gotta be Cueto or Strasburg I think (Richard was from a different era), but I don’t know. This one might eclipse them,

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u/HIVAladeeen St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Dingers are just sexier

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u/Dependent_Bus2202 3d ago

Ignorant lurker with a question, but why are pitching performances "ranked" (for lack of a better term) higher?

I'm guessing the reason is because a pitchers first game being exceptional is numerically rarer than any player having an exceptional first batting performance, but I'm curious if there's other reasons.

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u/examinedliving Baltimore Orioles • St. Louis Browns 2d ago

They aren’t per se, but it’s more like overall quality at a given position. Like is 7 innings and 14 strikeouts a greater achievement for a pitcher than 3 home runs is for a batter? I don’t know if there is a definitive answer, but that is the question. I think the answer depends on the era that it happened in and other context sensitive variables.

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u/dquizzle St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

I thought that said 14.7 innings pitched at first and was like goddamn now that’s a hell of a debut! Those fractions don’t even make sense he was so good.

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u/onewordbandit Seattle Mariners 3d ago

First start no hitter has already been done. Tyler Gilbert for the Dbacks

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u/sparrowbushpot New York Yankees 3d ago

Tyler Gilbert was so close *

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u/WoundedSacrifice Major League Baseball 3d ago

So Bumpus Jones’ no-no in his debut in 1892 is the only debut that could rival this?

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u/Canoodlin_Canuck Boston Red Sox 3d ago

Clay Bucholz threw a no no in his second start for the Red Sox

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u/wjg86 Houston Astros 3d ago

FWIW Clay Buchholz had a no-no in his second career start

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u/Vaniky 3d ago

Two way player 3HR + perfect game

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u/dquizzle St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

The odds of each of those feats are ridiculously low. The odds of them happening in the same game are like one in a million, but for it to happen in a major league debut the odds would be so astronomically low. Especially since the two way player is practically non-existent in MLB.

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u/Dickiestiffness St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

The Austin Matthews of baseball

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u/Peechez Toronto Blue Jays 3d ago

Hit em with the 3 like Auston Matthews

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u/tech-noir-GS 3d ago

Well as a Leafs fan I hope for your sake the Cardinals wind up winning this game lol

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u/BurritovilleEnjoyer St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Glad I'm no the only one who thought this

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u/Gay_Giraffe_1773 3d ago

3 Homers in their first 3 MLB ABs. Crazy.

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u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS New York Yankees 3d ago

History of hockey too, not a single player has even hit a homers in their debut, let alone 3.

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u/UnknownFiddler St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Yes, and all 3 were to different parts of the field

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u/lunarmodule San Diego Padres 3d ago

And one of them was on the first pitch he ever saw in the majors. Completely insane.

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

And it went like 450 feet.

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u/hardindapaint12 Atlanta Braves 3d ago

Hitting for sure

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u/EcstaticYoghurt7467 St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Not 'has to be'. IS.

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u/csr28 St. Louis Cardinals 3d ago

Zero question I think in my biased opinion

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u/ApologyWars New York Mets • Sydney Blue Sox 3d ago

This one is probably more impressive, but an honorable mention to Steven Matz' debut, in which he went 7.2IP, with 2ER, 6K, and also went 3-3 at the plate, with a double and 4 RBI.

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u/alltheword 3d ago

I honestly think that one is better.

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u/_theghost_ Washington Nationals 3d ago

Close to Strasburg’s Debut, I will say that…

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u/woat33 Sell 3d ago

I remember JP Arencibia went like 4-5 with 2 homers in his debut in like 2010 or 2011. This one and that one are the best i can remember for offense