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Padres-Mets: Padres Have List of Firsts in Win Over Mets
Published by Todd Kaufmann on April 14, 2009
Article Source: Bleacher Report - MLB
The first batter of the night, Padres' outfielder Jody Gerut, sent the third pitch he saw over the right field fence for a solo home run. It marked the first time a lead off batter had ever hit a home run in a new ballpark in Major League history.
“Very cool,” Gerut said. “Maybe at the end of the season when I look back on this, I’ll have a greater sense of what happened here. But at the time, all I’m thinking is that it put us ahead.”
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