The 2018 MLB season began yesterday. On the first pitch of the first at-bat of the first game of the campaign, Chicago Cubs utility man and former Cincinnati Bearcat Ian Happ did this.
As Twitter exploded with jokes about Happ being on pace for a billion home runs and the Marlins already being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, this little nugget came across my timeline.
Ian Happ just duplicated Dwight Evans’ feat of hitting first pitch of season for HR. Evans took Jack Morris deep on first pitch of ‘86 season
— Gordon Edes (@GordonEdes) March 29, 2018
Here’s video of that dinger.