This is the 5th Game 1 leadoff HR in World Series history BUT IT'S THE FIRST IN THE TOP OF THE FIRST...AKA THE FIRST OVERALL BATTER OF THE GAME
This is the 5th Game 1 leadoff HR in World Series history BUT IT'S THE FIRST IN THE TOP OF THE FIRST...AKA THE FIRST OVERALL BATTER OF THE GAME
@SlangsOnSports Pete Rose off Catfish Hunter in game 5 of the 1972 World Series.
@SlangsOnSports @CespedesBBQ Who are the other four?
@SlangsOnSports I was disappointed the @FOXSports broadcast didn't say when the last time this happened in the World Series, but I said out loud (to my couch) that you would have that info. And right on cue here you are. And it's NEVER happened before in the top of the first?
@SlangsOnSports Still open for history: Hit a homer on the first pitch of the World Series.
@SlangsOnSports It didn’t work out too well for the 1969 Orioles.
@SlangsOnSports Crazy! Always something new in baseball
@SlangsOnSports Call me crazy, but I could swear someone for the Giants did this (Hunter Pence, maybe?) in 2014 in Kansas City off Scott Shields
@SlangsOnSports @CespedesBBQ Alcides Escobar on that list for his little league inside the parker