Records in baseball are vast and difficult to track. Sometimes, there’s a record lurking and we don’t even know it. Fortunately, there’s enough information available for us to know the truth about Kazuo Matsui and his record set each season with the New York Mets.
Matsui is one of several Mets who hit a home run in their first major league at-bat. However, he’s the only man to ever knock a homer in each of his first plate appearances to open the season in three consecutive years. This goes for Mets and anyone else to put on a pair of cleats.