Last September, A's catcher Beau Taylor was so excited to get his first career major league hit, he tripped over first base on his way to second.
On a chilly night at the Coliseum on Tuesday, Taylor just wanted to avoid doing the same thing on his first career major league home run.
"I kind of blew at it trying to get it to go,” Taylor said of his first big-league round-tripper following Oakland's 16-2 rout of the Orioles. “I was thinking, ‘Touch the base. Touch second, touch third. OK, you did good.