Baseball Digest, page 67, May 1960 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
Attendance: 12,021, Time of Game: 2:57
Cardinals 11, Reds 3HR: J Cunningham (1, off Art Fowler, 5th inn, 2 on, 2 outs to RF)
Cunningham was 2 for 5 with 5 RBI and played first base.
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Thursday, July 1, 1954, , County Stadium
Attendance: 19,791, Time of Game: 2:24
Cardinals 9, Braves 2HR: J Cunningham 2 (3, 2 off Warren Spahn, 2nd inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep RF; 3rd inn, 2 on, 1 out to Deep RF)
2 for 3, plus BB; 4 RBI. Hall of Fame lefty Spahn walked Cunningham after the two homers, then got him to ground out P-1B. Spahn pitched 7 innings despite being hammered.
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Cunningham did not homer in his next four games but he tops Aaron Judge hitting a home run in each of his first two games this weekend, starting with:
Fritz Brickell and Bobby Richardson hit their first home runs in the same game in 1959, a bit like Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge yesterday. Sunday, August 14, 2016
... in their first plate appearances (PA) Austin and Judge homered, back-to-back jacks. Supposedly it's the first time in history that teammates homered in their first PA in the same game.
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Five players have hit two home runs in their first game:
Bob Nieman 1951
Bert Campaneris 1964
Mark Quinn 1999
J. P. Arencibia 2010
Yasmani Grandal 2012
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