Baseball’s origin story is a hazy one, the rules stitched together in pieces over the years. But according to the game’s basic bylaws, a player cannot hit a walk-off homer in the second inning.
You still have to play out the final seven innings, come hill or high water, no matter how futile that prospect might seem
And so on Monday night here at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago’s Matt Davidson clobbered a solo homer in the bottom of the second off Royals starter Jason Vargas. The pitch was a fastball, thrown at 86 mph. The baseball traveled 399 feet and landed in the seats in right field, giving the White Sox a 1-0 lead.