Not many guys can say their first official major league at-bat was a 447-foot home run.
Then again, most players who hit a home run in their first at-bat have it happen just that way, on their first trip to a major league plate.
Not Zack Collins, of course. The OBP machine got his first plate appearance vs. the Chicago Cubs on June 19, an end-of-game, pinch-hitting sip of coffee to wet his batting beak — and, natch, he walked.
But two days later, Collins stepped up to the plate in the first at-bat of his first major league start (not at catcher, but designated hitter) and walloped a 2-2 slider from Ariel Jurardo that slid right into the heart of the plate
“Honestly I was just in shock,” Collins told Jason Benetti and Steve Stone in a broadcast interview after the game.