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Originally Posted by Cfern023
He got hit in the head with a 95MPH fastball on the first pitch of his first MLB apperance by a Florida Marlin.
If you think that it doesn't make him special, you may need to recheck the history books. He's the only one to ever have his MLB career end on the first pitch of it.
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I think it is a great story too, he earned his trip to the majors, but had nothing to do with how it ended.
I do doubt that only MLB player to have his career end after one pitch "fact" I read a few times. There have been 38 players who have only pinch hit in their career and didn't reach base or strike out, but they went 0-for-1 in their only game. If you check baseball-reference, only one of those players (Rob Sasser) was recent enough to check the pitch-by-pitch during his AB and he saw 5 pitches. I have a hard time believing none of the 37 others only saw one pitch. I checked two newspaper accounts for each of the four Pirates players that are among this group and not one referenced a pitch count in any way so I doubt it is a known fact, likely just misstated.
He is(won't be for long) definitely the only one to have his career ended by a hit by pitch on the only pitch he saw, but that isn't what some of the articles were saying.