Has a major league player ever hit a home run on his first major league pitch? 2 Articles

by Marc Grisier

The best-ever first at bat in the major leagues has to belong to Kevin Kouzmanoff of the Cleveland Indians. In Texas, against the Rangers on Saturday, September 2, 2006, Kouzmanoff, batting seventh in the order as the ...read more

by Sam Brean

More than sixteen thousand ballplayers have appeared in Major League baseball games. Twenty three players have hit home runs on the first pitch thrown to them in the Major Leagues. The feat was first accomplished in 1922 b...read more