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Blue Jays: Rowdy Tellez makes baseball history in first at-bats

Blue Jays fans were incredibly impressed when first baseman Rowdy Tellez drove the first pitch he saw in the bigs into the outfield for an RBI double. So, the next logical question is – what’s better than an RBI double? Two RBI doubles? How about three doubles in Tellez’s first three MLB plate appearances? Yes.

According to the Blue Jays on Twitter (who in turn confirmed the fact from STATS), Rowdy Tellez is “the first player in the live-ball era to have an extra-base hit in each of his first three career plate appearances”.