Casual Diehard

The Mets traded Eduardo Escobar over the weekend, and he’ll surely be missed — a great vibes guy who lost his job to Brett Baty and just didn’t have a place on a team that needs a shakeup. FOGO MODE forever, and let’s bid Escobar farewell with his home run chain.

* Eduardo Escobar hit his first home run off Jeremy Guthrie, 4/9/13

* Jeremy Guthrie gave up his first home run to Omar Infante, 9/14/04

* Omar Infante hit his first home run off Kyle Lohse, 9/10/02

* Kyle Lohse gave up his first home run to Dean Palmer, 6/22/01

* Dean Palmer hit his first home run off Rick Honeycutt, 6/27/91

* Rick Honeycutt gave up his first home run to Graig Nettles, 8/31/77

* Graig Nettles hit his first home run off Denny McLain, 9/6/68

Denny McLain connects us to the Omar Narváez home run chain… which was the last We Can Pod It Out post. But… what an achievement for Nettles, hitting the first home run of his career against the major leagues’ last 30-game winner. Thing is, McLain not only won 31 games in 1968, he gave up a major league-leading 31 homers, too. In 41 starts, McLain allowed 86 runs, of which 48 came on dingers. That means an average of less than a run per game against him on non-homers… and 10 of those 38 runs were unearned.

McLain gave up three homers to Reggie Jackson in 1968, and two apiece to Frank Howard, Tony Horton, Rich Reese, and Pete Ward — the last of whom hit the only grand slam against McLain that year.

In addition to Nettles, players who took McLain deep in ‘68 included Boog Powell, Sal Bando, Bobby Cox, Harmon Killebrew, Rico Petrocelli, Joe Pepitone, and Orioles pitcher Dave McNally. Plus, near the end of the season, McLain gave up Mickey Mantle’s 535th career home run — the last of Mantle’s 42 at Tiger Stadium, his most at any visiting park. The following day, September 20, Mantle hit his last dinger, No. 536, back at Yankee Stadium (where he hit 266 homers), off Boston’s Jim Lonborg.

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In the spirit of the opening of this episode, the Rockies are trailing 23-0 in the fifth inning of a game as these words are written. By the time you read this, you may or may not know the final score. That’s not important. Whats important is that you stay away from Orbit, the Astros’ mascot, who is a creep.

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With Tomás Nido no longer in Flushing, the player on the Mets with the most plate appearances this season and no home runs is the player who has essentially replaced him, Omar Narváez, currently 6-for-31 with his new club.

Narváez has 51 home runs in his career: 12 with the White Sox, 22 in his one year with the Mariners, and 17 with the Brewers. Let’s track it back to his first, and go from there for the Omar Narváez home run chane.

* Omar Narváez hit his first home run off Pat Dean, 9/30/16

* Pat Dean gave up his first home run to Nick Castellanos, 5/16/16

* Nick Castellanos hit his first home run off Josh Beckett, 4/9/14

* Josh Beckett gave up his first home run to Vladimir Guerrero Sr., 9/19/01

* Vladimir Guerrero Sr. hit his first home run off Mark Wohlers, 9/21/96

* Mark Wohlers gave up his first home run to John Morris, 9/1/91

* John Morris hit his first home run off Kevin Gross, 9/24/86

* Kevin Gross gave up his first home run to Keith Hernandez, 6/25/83

* Keith Hernandez hit his first home run off Doug Rau, 5/24/75

* Doug Rau gave up his first home run to Earl Williams, 9/7/72

* Earl Williams hit his first home run off Barry Lersch, 4/17/71

* Barry Lersch gave up his first home run to Willie Smith, 4/8/69

* Willie Smith hit his first home run off Denny McLain, 6/14/64

* Denny McLain gave up his first home run to Ken Retzer, 9/25/63

* Ken Retzer hit his first home run off Jerry Walker, 9/16/61

* Jerry Walker gave up his first home run to Rocky Colavito, 8/28/57

* Rocky Colavito hit his first home run off Bobby Shantz, 4/25/56

* Bobby Shantz gave up his first home run to Stan Spence, 5/18/49

* Stan Spence hit his first home run off Johnny Allen, 8/20/40

* Johnny Allen gave up his first home run to Earl Averill, 5/17/32

* Earl Averill hit his first home run off Earl Whitehill, 4/16/29

* Earl Whitehill gave up his first home run to Bob Meusel, 9/25/23

* Bob Meusel hit his first home run off Jim Shaw, 6/2/20

* Jim Shaw gave up his first home run to Eddie Murphy, 5/9/14

* Eddie Murphy hit his first home run off Ray Caldwell, 10/3/13

* Ray Caldwell gave up his first home run to Harry Hooper, 10/8/10

* Harry Hooper hit his first home run off Joe Lake, 8/22/10

* Joe Lake gave up his first home run to Harry Howell, 6/18/08

* Harry Howell gave up his first home run to Dan McGann, 4/28/99

* Dan McGann hit his first home run off George Cuppy, 9/5/96

* George Cuppy gave up his first home run to Jocko Halligan, 5/1/92

* Jock Halligan hit his first home run off Hank O’Day, 5/19/90

* Hank O’Day gave up his first home run to George Strief, 5/6/84

* George Strief hit his first home run off Will White, 5/3/82

* Will White gave up his first home run to Joe Start, 5/7/78

* Joe Start hit his first home run off Al Spalding, 10/4/71

* Al Spalding gave up his first home run to Fred Treacey, 7/7/71

That was the first home run of Fred Treacy’s career, for the Chicago White Stockings against the Boston Red Stockings, a 7-1 win for the home team in the Windy City. It was, as you might guess, an inside-the-park homer according to SABR’s home run database.

Spalding only gave up 15 homers in 2886.1 innings as he completed 279 of his 325 career starts. A four-time 40-game winner, Spalding is indeed that Spalding, the one from the ball. Not a bad legacy for Treacey to have been the first to circle the bases against him.

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In this episode, Addy, Britt, and Jesse are joined by Tiny Deaths musician and NBA writer for The Guardian Claire de Lune, whose latest piece on Nikola Jokić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the new, balanced superstar — is not why she’s a guest, because we didn’t know that she was working on it.

No, the reason Claire is here this time is to talk about Kevin Durant tweets, which she has analyzed as representing signs of the zodiac.

Great news: after we recorded, KD dropped another classic.

Here’s the song, “Us” that was playing at the start of the show…

Also on this episode…

* It’s exhausting being annoyed at Ferrari and annoying being exhausted by Ferrari, and yet it was an objectively good result?

* The NBA offseason starts with a bang, and it should be longer, like, until Christmas.

* Shoutout to Flagrant Magazine, where Claire previously wrote about Durant’s tweets.

* Sports is really for theater kids, don’t tell anyone.

* Please give us an NBA RedZone channel.

* The Knicks winning 60 games, that super routine thing that happens all the time.

* Does the phrase “excessively emotionally invested for three-to-four hours and it will make or break my weekend” bring anything to mind for you?

* If you know what Tim Alberta tweeted to elicit this response from Kevin Durant, please let us know in the Discord.

Last, but not least, the results of our game this week, as we selected the schools that, if the stars aligned just right, and they brought all their best drinkers to Omaha, might someday challenge the record set this week by LSU at Rocco’s in Omaha — 26,965 Jell-O shots and counting as of this writing. We each selected two schools to challenge the 2017 Warriors of drinking from Louisiana.

* Claire: Miami, Wisconsin

* Addy: Arizona State, Columbia

* Britt: Minnesota, Iowa

* Jesse: Dartmouth, Navy

Between the time “the NBA offseason starts with a bang” was written above, and the time this sentence was written, Chris Paul got traded to Golden State. We can’t wait to have Claire back on the show for the next episode of NBA Drama.

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The Mets continue to sputter, but Pete Alonso hit his 23rd home run of the season yesterday, getting back within one of Shohei Ohtani for the major league lead, while the Polar Bear has a two-dinger edge at the moment on Matt Olson and Jorge Soler. So, today’s home run chain is the man who is now halfway to the total of 46 homers that he needs this season to tie Howard Johnson for fourth on the Mets’ all-time list with 192.

* Pete Alonso hit his first home run off Drew Steckenrider, 4/1/19

* Drew Steckenrider gave up his first home run to Wilmer Flores, 8/19/17

* Wilmer Flores hit his first home run off Heath Bell, 8/11/13

* Heath Bell gave up his first home run to Damion Easley, 8/30/04

* Damion Easley hit his first home run off Rick Aguilera, 9/20/92

* Rick Aguilera gave up his first home run to Andre Dawson, 6/16/85

* Andre Dawson hit his first home run off Buzz Capra, 5/18/77

* Buzz Capra gave up his first home run to Nate Colbert, 4/25/72

* Nate Colbert hit his first home run of Jack Billingham, 4/24/69

That was the first home run Jack Billingham allowed in his career, having tossed 71.1 innings as a Dodgers rookie the year before being picked by the Expos in the expansion draft. Just before the Expos started their maiden season, Billingham got shipped to Houston to complete the Rusty Staub trade, as Donn Clendenon had refused to report to the Astros.

After playing that tangential role to the story of the 1969 Mets, Billingham featured in 1973 as the losing pitcher of the decisive Game 5 in the NLCS at Shea Stadium. He’s best known, of course, for continuing with Cincinnati and winning two rings as part of the Big Red Machine, including two scoreless innings in Game 7 of the 1975 World Series.

Colbert’s chain-starting homer was a tiebreaking three-run shot at the Astrodome in the sixth win (and 16th game) in San Diego Padres history. Tony Gonzalez doubled after Billingham had gotten the first two batters he faced out, then the Astros intentionally walked Ollie Brown to bring up Colbert, who had gone 0-for-7 as a Rule 5 pick with the 1966 Astros, 8-for-53 for Houston in 1968, and then went to San Diego in the expansion draft.

Colbert had gotten off to a 5-for-21 start with the Padres when he faced Billingham in what was his 86th major league plate appearance. The next day, the Padres returned home and Colbert homered off Jim Maloney. Then the next day, too, another go-ahead three-run shot in the eighth, this time off Jim Merritt. Colbert didn’t homer in a doubleheader on April 27, but did take Claude Osteen of the Dodgers deep on the 28th, then went back east and blasted one off Phil Niekro in Atlanta.

Colbert wound up with 24 homers in his breakout season, then hit 38, 27, 38, 22, and 14 as a three-time All-Star, establishing the Padres’ franchise record at 163 home runs before he was traded to the Tigers in November 1974 for Ed Brinkman, Dick Sharon, and Bob Strampe.

The Padres’ current franchise leader in home runs? Still Nate Colbert at 163. The single-season mark of 38 stood until Ken Caminiti hit 40 homers in 1996, followed by Greg Vaughn hitting 50 two years later. The Padres have since had 40-homer seasons by Phil Nevin (41 in 2001), Adrián González (40 in 2009), and Fernando Tatis Jr. (42 in 2021).

González got up to 161 before he left San Diego, where Nevin is third on the team’s dinger list at 156, followed by Dave Winfield (154), Tony Gwynn (135), Wil Myers (134), Ryan Klesko (133), Caminiti (121), and Manny Machado (116).

Those are the only nine players to hit 100 home runs for the Padres. Tatis is at 96, so he’ll get there soon, and either he or Machado should eclipse Colbert’s total over the next couple of seasons. Then again, who would’ve thought that Colbert would still be San Diego’s home run king today?

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The less said about the Mets’ game in Houston last night, the better. Brett Baty was like the rest of us, watching New York’s bats struggle to get anything going against Framber Valdez. No shame in that, Valdez was phenomenal, but that’s the game the 2023 Mets get pitched against them that the 2022 Mets simply didn’t. They’re now farther out of first place at this stage of the season than they’ve been since 2003, but in a world of wild card multiball… it’s still a long way from over. So, here’s the Brett Baty home run chain.

Brett Baty hit his first home run off Jake Odorizzi, 8/17/22

Jake Odorizzi gave up his first home run to Carlos Santana, 9/23/12

Carlos Santana hit his first home run off J.D. Martin, 6/12/10

J.D. Martin gave up his first home run to Craig Counsell, 7/30/09

Craig Counsell hit his first home run off Todd Stottlemyre, 8/24/97

Todd Stottlemyre gave up his first home run to Ron Hassey, 4/28/88

Ron Hassey hit his first home run off Nolan Ryan, 5/12/78

Nolan Ryan gave up his first home run to Joe Torre, 9/11/66

Joe Torre hit his first home run off Joey Jay, 5/21/61

Joey Jay gave up his first home run to Willie Jones, 6/26/54

Willie Jones hit his first home run off Bob Chesnes, 9/20/48

Bob Chesnes gave up his first home run to Johnny Mize, 5/6/48

Johnny Mize hit his first home run off Harry Gumbert, 4/30/36

Harry Gumbert gave up his first home run to Lonny Frey, 9/21/35

Lonny Frey hit his first home run off Bill Swift, 5/6/34

Bill Swift gave up his first home run to Ripper Collins, 4/12/32

Ripper Collins hit his first home run off Ray Kremer, 5/9/31

Ray Kremer gave up his first home run to Rogers Hornsby, 4/22/24

Rogers Hornsby hit his first home run off Jeff Pfeffer, 5/14/16

Jeff Pfeffer gave up his first home run to Tex Erwin, 7/11/14

Tex Erwin hit his first home run off Lew Moren, 4/15/10

Lew Moren gave up his first home run to Cozy Dolan, 4/19/04

Cozy Dolan hit his first home run off Bill Duggleby, 6/19/02

Bill Duggleby gave up his first home run to Bill Joyce, 4/21/98

Bill Joyce hit his first home run off Henry Gruber, 6/28/90

Henry Gruber gave up his first home run to Roger Connor, 7/28/87

Roger Connor hit his first home run off Tommy Bond, 5/24/80

Tommy Bond gave up his first home run to Deacon White, 5/15/74

Deacon White hit his first home run off George Zettlein, 5/11/71

George Zettlein gave up his first home run to Ezra Sutton, 5/8/71

This was the first home run of Ezra Sutton’s career. The second came in the same game – for both of them. It was opening day in Chicago for Zettlein and the White Stockings of the National Association (forerunner of the National League, not forerunner of the Cubs or White Sox). The Cleveland Forest Citys trailed 14-2 in the fourth inning when Sutton hit his first homer, and 14-8 in the seventh when Sutton hit his second. The final was 14-12, the first of seven straight wins for Chicago to start 1871.

Chicago finished 19-9, two games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. Cleveland finished 10-19, winning the battle of the Forest Citys with the Rockford Forest Citys, who were dead last at 4-21.

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We know that Daniel Vogelbach hits his home runs in bunches, and now he’s hit two in four day, doubling his season total after hitting one each in April and May. Vogelbach also has matched his total from 2018, the year that he opened his account in the majors after cups of coffee with the Mariners in 2016 and 2017.

Vogelbach only played 37 games for Seattle in 2018, before really breaking out in 2019 with his 30-homer campaign. In 2018, Vogelbach homered on April 13 and 14, and on September 16 and 17. Like this year, his fourth homer of the 2018 season came in Houston. Not a pattern: Vogelbach’s other fourth homers of the season have come in Chicago, Milwaukee (twice, both at home), and Detroit.

Vogelbach’s first career dinger? That’s the start of his home run chain.

* Daniel Vogelbach hit his first home run off Chris Hatcher, 4/13/18

* Chris Hatcher gave up his first home run to Nick Hundley, 8/20/11

* Nick Hundley hit his first home run off Franquelis Osoria, 7/26/08

* Franquelis Osoria gave up his first home run to Dallas McPherson, 6/24/05

* Dallas McPherson hit his first home run off Gil Meche, 9/22/04

* Gil Meche gave up his first home run to Kelly Stinnett, 7/19/99

* Kelly Stinnett hit his first home run off Allen Watson, 5/5/94

* Allen Watson gave up his first home run to Jeff Bagwell, 7/18/93

* Jeff Bagwell hit his first home run off Kent Mercker, 4/15/91

* Kent Mercker gave up his first home run to Tom Herr, 7/3/90

* Tom Herr hit his first home run off Andy McGaffigan, 5/10/83

* Andy McGaffigan gave up his first home run to Rich Dauer, 9/24/81

* Rich Dauer hit his first home run off Bill Lee, 6/9/77

* Bill Lee gave up his first home run to Frank Howard, 6/29/69

* Frank Howard hit his first home run off Robin Roberts, 9/10/58

* Robin Roberts gave up his first home run to Wally Westlake, 6/18/48

* Wally Westlake hit his first home run off Joe Beggs, 4/18/47

* Joe Beggs gave up his first home run to Dario Lodigiani, 4/25/38

* Dario Lodigiani hit his first home run off Emerson Dickman, 4/24/38

That was the first home run allowed by Emerson Dickman, who later in 1938 gave up dingers to Ken Keltner in Cleveland and Joe DiMaggio at Fenway Park. Keltner wound up hitting five homers off Dickman, the most of anyone among the 38 dingers Dickman served up, while Joe D. belted three — as many as Keltner hit in a single game on May 25, 1939 at Fenway. DiMaggio got to Dickman twice in a week in 1940, once at Fenway, once in the Bronx. And then Keltner got DiMaggio in 1941.

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Been a while since doing one of these, and they’re always fun, so let’s play the first career home run hit/allowed game with Francisco Álvarez.

* Francisco Álvarez hit his first home run off Carl Edwards Jr., 10/4/22

* Carl Edwards Jr. gave up his first home run to Alemdys Díaz, 6/22/16

* Alemdys Díaz hit his first home run off Eric O’Flaherty, 4/18/16

* Eric O’Flaherty gave up his first home run to Alex Rodriguez, 8/22/06

* Alex Rodriguez hit his first home run off Tom Gordon, 6/12/95

* Tom Gordon gave up his first home run to Terry Steinbach, 9/17/88

* Terry Steinbach hit his first home run off Greg Swindell, 9/12/86

* Greg Swindell gave up his first home run to Garth Iorg, 8/27/86

* Garth Iorg hit his first home run off Sparky Lyle, 6/22/80

* Sparky Lyle gave up his first home run to Mickey Stanley, 7/16/67

* Mickey Stanley hit his first home run off Marshall Bridges, 9/3/65

* Marshall Bridges gave up his first home run to Pete Whisenant, 6/28/59

* Pete Whisenant hit his first home run off Johnny Antonelli, 6/12/55

* Johnny Antontelli gave up his first home run to Stan Musial, 5/24/49

* Stan Musial hit his first home run off Rip Sewell, 9/23/41

* Rip Sewell gave up his first home run to Jimmie Foxx, 6/14/32

* Jimmie Foxx hit his first home run off Urban Shocker, 5/31/27

* Urban Shocker gave up his first home run to Nap Lajoie, 5/3/16

* Nap Lajoie hit his first home run off Art Herman, 8/20/96

* Art Herman gave up his first home run to Charlie Irwin, 6/29/96

* Charlie Irwin hit his first home run off Huyler Westervelt, 6/7/94

* Huyler Westervelt gave up his first home run to Ed Cartwright, 5/11/94

* Ed Cartwright hit his first home run off Mike Morrison, 7/10/90

* Mike Morrison gave up his first home run to Charlie Comiskey, 4/30/87

* Charlie Comiskey hit his first home run off John Reccius, 5/4/82

That was the first home run allowed by John Reccius, who pitched for the Louisville Eclipse in 1882 and 1883, then part of the American Association.

Reccius batted unknown and threw unknown, same as his brother Phil Reccius, who managed to escape having his handedness known despite playing in Louisville from 1882-87, and then 68 games for the Cleveland Blues in ‘87 before a return engagement in Louisville, which by then had become the Colonels, but still played at Eclipse Park. The 1887 Colonels roster included Reddy Mack, Chicken Wolf, Hub Collins, Ducky Hemp, Peak-A-Boo Veach, Toad Ramsey, and Ice Box Chamberlain — the latter two serving as the main pitchers for a 76-60 team.

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We were gonna do an episode of Willets Pod last night, but illness got in the way, so here are some fun facts as the Men’s College World Series gets underway today.

Here’s a fun fact about each college team’s products who made it to MLB. This isn’t necessarily what would’ve been discussed on the podcast that we didn’t get to do, but came up in the internet rabbit hole while preparing for it.

Oral Roberts: Two of the three All-Stars the school has produced are active players, Jordan Romano and Jose Trevino. The other is 1980s baseball card staple Mike Moore.

TCU: Pete Donohue remains the winningest major league pitcher who attended TCU, with 134 victories from 1921-32. But Jake Arrieta got close with 115.

Virginia: Sean Doolittle and Ryan Zimmerman are multiple-time All-Stars, but the one Cavalier who made it to Cooperstown never played an All-Star Game. That’s because Eppa Rixey’s career was from 1912-33.

Florida: The all-time leading Gator in major league homers is and has been Al Rosen since the 1950s. Pete Alonso is currently trailing 192-168, with Mike Stanley still to catch at 187.

Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons have given us not only the pitcher Ryan Braun and the outfielder Dave Robertson, but also these great names: Mike Buddie, Dave Bush, Chris Getz, Lee Gooch, Doyt Morris, Dick Newsome, Charlie Ripple, Elmer Sexauer, and Brick Smith.

Stanford: Six former Cardinal players have hit 100 or more major league home runs — Carlos Quentin, Ed Sprague, Steve Buechele, Jed Lowrie, Jeffrey Hammonds, and Bob Boone. None has reached 200. Good luck to Tommy Edman, currently at 47.

LSU: As of today, DJ LeMahieu has the same .417 career slugging percentage as his predecessor with the Tigers, Aaron Hill.

Tennessee: The one active ex-Volunteer who’s been an All-Star? You guessed it, Yan Gomes.

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The first time the Mets walked off the Yankees was in the first Subway Series iteration at Shea Stadium, in the second year of interleague play, 1998 — Luis Lopez hit a sac fly off Ramiro Mendoza that brought home Carlos Baerga with the winning run.

The next year, Matt Franco singled home Rickey Henderson and Edgardo Alfonzo to lead the Mets to an improbable 9-8 victory over Mariano Rivera. There was a Shane Spencer walkoff fielder’s choice in 2004 against Tanyon Sturtze to bring home Kaz Matsui, then a David Wright single off Rivera that scored Paul Lo Duca in 2006. After Jason Bay singled home Scott Hairston in the 10th inning of a 2011 game against Hector Noesi, the Mets walked off Rivera in a third different decade when Lucas Duda singled in Wright for a 2-1 verdict in 2013.

The Mets didn’t hit their first walkoff homer against the Yankees until 2020, when they did it twice: Amed Rosario off Aroldis Chapman (at Yankee Stadium in a doubleheader, what a strange time) and Pete Alonso off Albert Abreu. The Mets still haven’t walked off the Yankees with a homer in front of people because next came Starling Marte’s single off Wandy Peralta last year… and then last night, the first walkoff double the Mets have ever had against the Yankees, Brandon Nimmo driving in Eduardo Escobar (who also scored last year’s walkoff run) off Nick Ramirez.

Walkoff doubles are rare because how often is someone running all the way to second base on a walkoff hit? The winning run is scoring ahead of you, and you can probably stop at first base. Last night, Nimmo’s ball hung up in the air, so he was running it out while Escobar had to hold up and make sure the ball wasn’t caught.

The Mets, in their history, have had 139 regular-season walkoff homers, and just — now — 33 walkoff doubles.

Escobar had one last year against the Phillies, hit to a similar spot in right field as Nimmo did last night. Before that, you have to go back to Austin Jackson off Javy Guerra in the 13th inning against the Marlins in 2018, and before that Justin Turner against Sean Marshall and the Cubs in 2011. Wright and Ed Kranepool are the only Mets with multiple walkoff doubles, each with two.

The major league record for career walkoff doubles is five, according to Stathead, and it’s shared by Adrián González, Chuck Klein, Hunter Pence, and Frank Robinson. Escobar has three in his career, which puts him second to Eric Hosmer among active players, and tied with a group that ranges from Henry Aaron to Don Slaught. It’s a weird sport.

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