On these shores, Major League Baseball isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. That said, what happened in the game between New York Mets and San Diego Padres on Saturday deserves a mention.
42-year-old Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon has played in MLB for 19 years and has never scored a home run… until now.
Colon, batting for the 226th time in his career, finally cleared the fence, helping the Mets to a 6-3 win in California, becoming the oldest player in MLB history to hit the first home run of his career.
“I don’t know how to explain it,” the man from the Dominican Republic said after the game. “One I hit it, I knew it was gone.”
Colon, who weighs over 20 stone, broke the record of Randy Jackson, who hit his first homer aged 40 when playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003.
Just look what it means to his teammates…
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