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That does it, home run No. 14 on the year for Bazzana!
— Oregon State Baseball (@BeaverBaseball) March 24, 2024
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MLB's No. 3 Draft prospect belts FOURTH STRAIGHT leadoff homer
MLB's No. 3 Draft prospect belts FOURTH STRAIGHT leadoff homer
— Oregon State Baseball (@BeaverBaseball) March 24, 2024
Another day, another leadoff dinger. Oregon State slugger Travis Bazzana just did something for the Beavers that only one player has done in AL/NL history.
For the fourth straight ballgame, Bazzana went yard in Oregon State's first plate appearance. His leadoff longball -- which left the bat at a reported 112 mph -- was just the appetizer. The 21-year-old Australian went deep again later in the contest, hammering a three-run clout over the left-center-field fence for his 14th home run of the year and eighth in five games.
As MLB's No. 3 Draft prospect, Bazzana has No. 1 overall pick potential, and if he keeps mashing at his current rate it's hard to imagine he'd slip past the first few teams.
— Oregon State Baseball (@BeaverBaseball) March 24, 2024
Bazzana’s streak began with one of his two jacks in Oregon State’s 14-3 win over Portland on Tuesday. On Friday, the Australia native kickstarted the Beavers' 3-1 win over Washington. On Saturday, he victimized the Huskies again, drilling the first pitch of the game over the left-center-field wall at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field.
The streak of four straight leadoff roundtrippers puts Bazzana in a small fraternity, and no AL/NL player has ever gone yard to open five consecutive games.
Brady Anderson, who homered to start games for the Orioles from April 18-21, 1996, is the only AL/NL player to have pulled that off.
Last summer, Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo became only the third player in AL/NL history to lead off three consecutive games with a homer, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr. went yard to open each half of a doubleheader in 2018, then also hit a leadoff homer in the next game.