List of players with a home run in first major league at-bat

=Home run in first at-bat=

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Facts

*Twenty-five of these players hit their home run on the first major league pitch they ever saw. Six of these players were pitchers.

* The St. Louis Cardinals has the most players hit their home run for them with 9.

*Only three men hit their home runs with the bases loaded: Bill Duggleby in April 1898, Jeremy Hermida 107 years later in August 2005, and Kevin Kouzmanoff on September 2, 2006.

*Bob Nieman, who accomplished the feat on September 14, 1951, and Keith McDonald, who accomplished the feat on July 4, 2000, are the only players in major league history to hit another home run during their second consecutive at-bat — Nieman did it during the same game, McDonald did it during his next game played on July 6, 2000.

*Hoyt Wilhelm, a future Hall of Fame pitcher, hit a home run during his first at-bat then had a twenty-one year career without hitting another long ball.

*Pitcher Esteban Yan hit a home run in his first at bat during an interleague game which he started in 2000 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He has only had one plate appearance since. Yan has been used primarily as a relief pitcher for his entire career (and relief pitchers are rarely asked to bat).

*Both Ernie Koy and Heinie Mueller hit their home runs in the same game - and it just happened to be on Opening Day.

*Will Clark homered in his first at bat off Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan in the Astrodome, a stadium known as being notoriously favorable to pitchers.

*Kevin Kouzmanoff is the only person in history to hit a grand slam on the very first pitch in his MLB career, which he did on September 2, 2006.

*The home run by Charlton Jimerson broke up Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels' perfect game bid in the 6th inning.

*Kaz Matsui not only hit a home run in his first major league at-bat, he hit home runs in the first plate appearances of each of his first three big-league seasons.

*Paul Gillespie and John Miller are the only players in MLB history to hit home runs in their first and last big league at bats. Miller only hit 2 home runs in his career.

*Gary Gaetti, the all-time home-run king of those listed above, is the only one to have also homered in his first at-bat in a playoff game.

*Although Lou Montañez hit a home run in his first major league at-bat, a few weeks later, he played in a suspended game that was supposed to have taken place before the game in which he hit his home run.

ee also

*Players who hit a pinch-hit home run in their first Major League at-bat
*Players who hit a home run in their last Major League at-bat

ources

* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats5.shtml Baseball Almanac]
* [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070714191433AAr99Y9 Yahoo]