Before Christopher Morel homered in his first major-league at-bat Tuesday night at Wrigley Field against the Pirates, eight other Cubs preceded him in accomplishing this rare feat.
It is a reminder on the randomness of this kind of event that five of the previous eight Cubs who did this hit fewer than seven career homers. Only Starlin Castro, Carmelo Martinez, Jorge Soler and Willson Contreras have done better.
That tells a lot about the temporary fame of most of the other Cubs who did this. After Morel’s blast, the Cubs are 6-3 in the nine games in which one of their players has gone deep in his first time to the plate in the big leagues.