Buddy Kennedy started the season in Reno. He has good enough numbers there (.261/.363/.385 with 7 HR and 40 RBI), but they don’t jump off the screen at you like Reno numbers sometimes can.
He received the call up and made his MLB debut on June 17, 2022 against Minnesota and went 1-3 with a single and a walk. Two days later he hit his only Major League homerun to date: a sixth inning grand slam, still against the Twins. Was there anything special about that homerun? Yeah, just maybe. It was Father’s Day in the US.