Major League Baseball has been applicable in this country since 1876, so the prospect of there being too many “firsts” here in 2009 would seem far and few between, but if you’ve followed baseball for as long as I have then you become immune to the “OMG, I NEVER SEEN THAT HAPPEN BEFORE” quality of the sport, case and point:

April 13th 2009 - Vacaville native Jermaine Dye along with Paul Konerko became the 1st teammates to ever hit their 300th (or any century number) home run in back to back fashion in the 2nd inning of a 10-6 victory over Detroit

April 19th 2009 - Also in the 2nd inning, the Cleveland Indians pound out 14 runs (that’s what I said) in what would be 22-4 massacre in front of 45,000+ in New Yankee Stadium. The irony is plenty, first off, the 14 run 2nd inning set a record for most runs ever scored in the 2nd beating the previous record set by guess who, u got it, the New York Yankees just 4 years ago to the date (April 18th, 2005), you gotta love baseball. Not to mention ,Yankee pitcher Chien-Ming Wang who started the game, now has an ERA of 34.50, to put that into perspective, he would have to pitch 45 consecutive scoreless innings to get his ERA under 4.00……

April 16-19th - In the same series at New Yankee Stadium the, the Yankees and Indians combined for 20 home runs, the most ever for a opening series in a new stadium.

April 14th 2009 - Jody Gerut became the first player to lead off a game with a home run in a new stadium. On the 3rd pitch ever thrown at Citi Field in New York, Jody Gerut hooked it inside the foul pole for the stadiums first home run.

April 20th, 2009 – This one isn’t relevant but it was the first rainout in Yankee Stadium history but I thought I would list it since it irritated me being an A’s fan and all……